Here in Adelaide, where I dwell, it is a public holiday for the Adelaide Cup. As far as my 5-minute internet search went, Australia seems to be the only country that takes a day off for the horses. That said, for some readers in a holiday mood, we thought we would start the blog with a departure from the usual serious stu...
In a recent piece for The Focal Points, John Leake diagnoses U.S. government officials — politicians, advisors, and would-be warmongers — with malignant narcissism, a toxic brew of grandiosity, lack of empathy, exploitation, rage when challenged, and pathological projection of one's flaws onto others. Drawing on Carl Jung's framework, Leake argues ...
Imagine a world where the FDA and other regulatory bodies in other jurisdictions like Australia could approve drugs without requiring robust evidence that they actually work. Sounds absurd, right? But if you squint at the incentives, it's not entirely incomprehensible. On the surface, the FDA et al. exists to protect the public from snake-oil and b...
In the ever-evolving landscape of vaccine science, few topics ignite as much debate as the long-term effects of mRNA technologies. On March 6, 2026, epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher, alongside cardiologist Peter A. McCullough and naturopath John A. Catanzaro, published a paper in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JAPS) titled "Gene Ex...
In the annals of history, empires rise like meteors, burning bright with conquest, innovation, and cultural splendour, only to fade into obscurity. But as they wane, a peculiar pattern emerges among the ruling class: an obsession with excess, particularly in matters of sex, alongside broader indulgences in luxury, corruption, and detachment from re...
Recent UK political developments involve Labour's plans under Prime Minister Keir Starmer to address social cohesion and extremism. Based on leaked government documents,Labour isset to announce the appointment of an "anti-Muslim hostility tsar" (an independent advisor role) next week, alongside a new official definition of "anti-Muslim hatred" (oft...
Sam Altman recently waded into the perpetual storm around AI's energy use. Speaking to Goenka, he dismissed viral claims about ChatGPT consuming "17 gallons of water per query" as "totally insane" and insisted the real concern is total energy consumption, not some per-query metric. He then offered an analogy that has sparked more controversy than c...
There's a new kind of digital omniscience creeping into the world, and it's not subtle. A recent study by Simon Lermen (MATS), Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, and Florian Tramèr — published on arXiv under the decidedly bland title "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs" — claims that modern large language mode...
"They failed to see that globalisation was merely a tactic to prise power from nation states towards international conglomerates. Once the power was siphoned from the people and democratic control was circumvented, the ability to assert global governance without any democratic restraint was available." ~ James Tunney, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Hu...
The recent revelations about Australian universities collaborating with researchers in China and Iran expose a deeper and troubling pattern of opportunism that has long haunted the higher education sector. Engineering academics from the University of New South Wales, Edith Cowan University, and James Cook University co-authored a paper on "secure c...
The ongoing Iran war could elevate Gavin Newsom's national profile and potentially position him ahead of figures like Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez in the Democratic contest for the presidency, but whether it will is far from guaranteed, and there are several reasons why it's complicated. The recent piece in The Spectator spotlights how Newsom is alread...
The emerging conflict between the U.S. military and the AI company Anthropic over its chatbot system Claude reveals something deeper than a bureaucratic contract dispute. It exposes a profound structural weakness in modern defence systems: the increasing dependence of national security on private Silicon Valley companies whose ideological prioritie...
The cultural revolution of the last half-century has produced many strange legal theories, but few are as astonishing as the recent decision by an Indiana judge declaring that abortion may be protected as an exercise of religious freedom. What was once understood as the deliberate destruction of unborn human life is now being reframed as a matter o...
The modern West likes to boast about its compassion. Governments speak endlessly about inclusion, mental health awareness, and the moral duty to protect vulnerable people. Yet beneath the rhetoric something far darker is emerging. In Canada, one of the most progressive societies on earth, policymakers are now openly discussing whether people suffer...
When the name Jeffrey Epstein appears in the news, the story usually focuses on two things: the underage girls and the mysterious death in a New York jail cell. But buried beneath the lurid headlines was a detail so bizarre it almost reads like satire: Epstein reportedly dreamed of impregnating dozens of women simultaneously to "seed the human race...
The idea of Western Australia seceding from the Commonwealth of Australia sounds dramatic — a giant swathe of land and resources breaking away to form its own nation — and it taps into a deep, enduring strand of West Australian identity. It isn't just trolling or historical trivia: for decades, a sense of being ignored or economically squeezed by C...
Even if Iran's air force and navy were suddenly totally neutralised, the country would not collapse. The assumption that aircraft and warships alone define military power is dangerously simplistic. Iran's army remains vast, well-trained, and deeply entrenched, capable of sustained operations over difficult terrain. Any attempt to overthrow the regi...
The article from ZeroHedge, titled "The Spell of Woke is Broke: Let's Keep It That Way," is a thoughtful, scholarly essay originally published via American Greatness and reposted on the great site, ZeroHedge. Written by Thomas F. Powers — a visiting lecturer at Cleveland State University's Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, and author of Amer...
The article by Leith van Onselen, exposing the academics from ANU, who have dismissed the concerns of ordinary Australians about mass immigration, must be read by all. It shows quite clearly where the interests of the universities lie, in promoting mass immigration. As a force, universities have become immigration agents. Any opposition movement ne...
The article (link below) from American Greatness, titled "The Asymmetric Advantages of Environmentalist Zealotry" by Edward Ring, is a sharp critique from a climate-sceptical, pro-industry, nationalist-conservative perspective. It portrays a small group of activist judges and environmentalist litigators as wielding disproportionate ("asymmetric") p...
