The 2026 midterms delivered a clear Democratic sweep of Congress. Exit polls show that Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Jewish voters remained or returned firmly to the Democratic column. These patterns are long-standing for most of these groups and show little sign of reversing in the near term. NBC and CNN exit polls put Black support for Democr...
Just when one thought British politics could not become any more absurd, the Labor government has discovered a revolutionary solution to the country's military manpower problems: bring back the old boys! Under proposals contained in the Armed Forces Bill 2026, the maximum age for recalling eligible former military personnel is to rise from 55 to 65...
The violence, looting and burning in France over the weekend of October 24th-25th was somewhat less intense and widespread than it had been on the previous weekend, but it was still significant. A demonstration comprising an estimated 400,000 people took place on the Saturday in Paris, confined to the south-eastern edge of the city, and this was fo...
The great horror films of the 1930s were about much more than monsters, vampires, mysterious laboratories and terrified villagers. Beneath their Gothic atmosphere lay serious philosophical questions about human ambition, the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of technological power and the consequences of attempting to transcend the ...
In an era of carefully managed soundbites, rigid party discipline and political elites who often appear detached from ordinary life, Senator Pauline Hanson has become the preferred voice for a growing number of Australians defined by patriotism and practical common sense. For decades the major parties have presented themselves as champions of worki...
Clive Pinder asks who decides which citizens count as indigenous. It is a fair question, and the international law on indigenous peoples has already answered it. In the first of a three-part series, Terrence White argues that the English, and the British more widely, are an indigenous majority, and that the right such a majority most needs is the r...
Once upon a time, Australia was known as the land of the larrikin. We were a nation of irreverent, independent-minded people who distrusted authority, laughed at pompous politicians and generally believed that adults should be left alone to get on with their lives. The Australian character was supposedly built around mateship, practical common sens...
For eighty years, the international system established after the Second World War has provided the basic framework within which nations conducted their affairs. The United Nations, the Bretton Woods financial institutions, American military supremacy, international trade arrangements and, eventually, the ideology of globalisation, all formed parts ...
Something peculiar is happening among sections of Generation Z. Young people who have never experienced life under communism are discovering the supposed attractions of the Soviet Union, a political system that collapsed in 1991 after decades of repression, economic dysfunction and ideological coercion. The hammer and sickle, Soviet military imager...
October closed with the Nasdaq having its worst month since March 2025. The index fell roughly 5–8% depending on the measure, with the Nasdaq 100 shedding on the order of $2 trillion in market value. Friday's session alone saw the Nasdaq drop nearly 3%, its worst day since June. Alphabet suffered its biggest single-day decline on record after disap...
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) remains one of the most recognizable names in 20th-century physics. The Austrian theorist formulated the wave equation that bears his name, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize, and gave the world the thought experiment of the cat that is simultaneously alive and dead until observed; a paradox of quantum mechanics. For decades ...
The largest cryptocurrency heist in history has just taken place, with hackers targeting approximately $US6.3 billion, or $A8.9 billion, in digital assets held by Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. According to reporting by the ABC and Reuters on 30 and 31 October 2026, much of the attack occurred in approximately 20 minutes, wit...
Recent investigative reporting has examined the funding and institutional relationships surrounding Australia's online regulation debate. Rather than repeat or adjudicate those claims, this article concentrates on the publicly available research used to justify the proposed legislation. The internet, however, is still open, for a while before total...
In 2018, astrophysicist Adam Frank and climatologist Gavin Schmidt published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology that formalised a provocative thought experiment: if an industrial civilisation had dominated Earth tens or hundreds of millions of years ago, would any trace of it remain? They called it the Silurian Hypothesis, a nod t...
There is something almost admirable about the determination of modern health enthusiasts to question conventional dietary wisdom. After decades of processed foods, sugary drinks, industrially manufactured snacks and contradictory nutritional advice, scepticism towards the food establishment is understandable. Unfortunately, some people have taken t...
In a recent appearance on Tucker Carlson's show, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Catherine Austin Fitts claimed that roughly $21 trillion in "unauthorised" or unsupported adjustments at the Departments of Defense and HUD between 1998 and 2015 funded a network of about 170 secret underground (and undersea) bases and "city...
J.D. Vance is right. The Republican Party lost the midterms because of the war with Iran. Not because voters suddenly fell in love with the opposition's domestic agenda, and not because of any sudden collapse in cultural or immigration politics. They lost because the war produced a fuel crisis that slammed an already fragile cost-of-living environm...
The Albanese Labor government's controversial Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 has passed the House of Representatives, bringing Australia another step closer to a sweeping new system of internet regulation. On October 28, the legislation secured its third reading by 96 votes to 38, despite opposition from the Coalition and ...
An extraordinary story from England illustrates how far the modern bureaucratic state can drift from ordinary ideas of justice. Writing in The Daily Sceptic on 28 October 2026, Guy Carpenter describes how he was prosecuted after picking up a dead deer from the roadside. His intention was simple: take the animal home and use it for food. Instead, he...
"I don't let little Johnny play with pit bulls. I know, I know, 'not all pits." Yeah, and I'm sure that's what everyone in the neighbourhood said about that one house. Look, pit bulls are sweet. Ninety percent of them, truly lovely dogs, welcome additions to our diverse culture. It's just — every single time you hear about someone's face being rear...
