The NSW gun "buyback" is a confiscation scheme dressed in the language of cooperative federalism. Owners caught by the new numerical limits are not ordinary sellers voluntarily accepting a government offer. They face a legislative choice: dispose of firearms that were previously lawfully possessed, surrender them under the government scheme, ...

Look, let's not make this easy and look at this scandal as Christians. Take a look at this as say pagans of old might. Even here, the contrast between the warriors of antiquity and the pampered, media-managed athletes of today could not be more stark. If you were to transport a Viking jarl or a Spartan polemarch to witness this hotel scandal, their...

"According to the most recent Gallup poll on the matter, 9 percent of U.S. adults now identify as LGBTQ+… Gallup finds 9.0% of U.S. adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than straight or heterosexual in 2025. The percentage has more than doubled since Gallup first measured LGBTQ+ identification in 2012. That ...

 The growing divide between young men and young women is not a statistical quirk. It is evidence of a society that has allowed identity ideologies to override biological and social reality. Survey data showing large numbers of people, especially young men, believing that equality has tipped into active discrimination against males is not fring...

Professor David Flint is right. Pauline Hanson has the character and consistency that the Canberra political class has long abandoned. In an era when major-party politicians treat the truth as optional and the national interest as secondary to factional survival, her plain-spoken record stands out. Flint's recent piece in The Spectator Australia ma...

"On August 30 patriots will once again March For Australia. Only this time, the focus is upon free speech instead of immigration. If you fail to attend these marches, you are in effect submitting at the most critical moment in Australian history to a multigenerational communist plot to subvert Western countries into becoming police states where nat...

 The rise of the supernatural in our time is not a return of wonder. It is the predictable advance of an ancient adversary in a culture that has forgotten how to name him. For decades many Western Christians assumed the great battle was against pure materialism. The Enlightenment, Darwinism, and the triumph of the laboratory would, we were tol...

Edwina Currie's "brothel" remark is not a serious policy proposal. It is a revealing symptom of a system that houses large numbers of young male asylum seekers in small rural communities while leaving the predictable social consequences unaddressed. On Times Radio, former Conservative minister Edwina Currie discussed plans to accommodate roughly 1,...

 Spain invited the Ceuta migrant surge through policies that advertised openness and constrained enforcement. The 191 percent rise in irregular arrivals into the Spanish enclave, followed by the late-July mass crossing of tens of thousands, did not fall from the sky. It followed years of progressive signalling, a large-scale regularisation pro...

There was a time when one of the defining characteristics of the British was their ability to laugh. British humour could be irreverent, cruel, politically incorrect, absurd and occasionally downright offensive. Politicians, priests, aristocrats, foreigners and the British themselves were all legitimate targets. The ability to tolerate mockery was ...

I have discussed in another blog piece how a British man has been convicted over a joke. That alone ought to make anyone interested in freedom of speech uncomfortable. But the case of former police officer Stephen Gray raises an even more interesting question than whether an offensive joke should result in prosecution. What if, considered literally...

Kellie Sloane as NSW Opposition Leader has called the gun buyback "absolute bulls**t," arguing it will not prevent another Bondi-style attack, that it targets law-abiding farmers and sporting shooters rather than terrorists or organised criminals, and that it functions as a political smokescreen for failures on security and social cohesion. She has...

 The global pandemic-preparedness industry has a very large price tag attached to it, but remarkably little public discussion has focused on whether the economic calculations used to justify that expenditure actually make sense. The recent critique associated with David Bell and Ramesh Thakur (linked below), therefore deserves serious attentio...

 The essay by Ian Smith (Chronicles, 19 August 2026, linked below) reviews Jonathan Alpert's book Therapy Nation and offers a cultural diagnosis: the explosive growth of therapy in the United States has not reduced anxiety and dysfunction; it has helped produce a more fragile, externally blaming, and polarised society. Wokeness is presented as...

Professor David Flint has put his finger on an uncomfortable question about the political response to the Bondi Beach terrorist massacre. Why has so much attention been directed towards guns when the defining feature of the atrocity was not simply the weapon used, but the antisemitic extremist ideology of those allegedly responsible? The Albanese f...

Iran has issued one of its more ominous warnings since the present war began. According to a senior Iranian official, Tehran is preparing to abandon what it describes as its defensive posture and move to a "fully offensive" strategy unless Washington changes course within a matter of weeks. The obvious question is what "offensive" actually means. I...

China's real power is not the finished electric car or the smartphone that reaches the consumer. It is the vast, invisible layer beneath: the chemicals, the steel, the bearings, the fasteners, the active pharmaceutical ingredients, the industrial ceramics, the pumps and motors and packaging that make every modern product possible. Intermediate good...

In the heart of Silicon Valley, the people who spent years writing the code, training the models and shipping the products are now marching outside the offices of the companies they helped make rich. They carry signs about job loss and existential risk. They demand pauses on the most powerful systems. They warn that artificial intelligence could di...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu recently declared that "every human has a legal right to the United States." This is not a fringe opinion, it reflects the core belief of the modern open-borders Left, across the West. In their worldview, national borders are immoral constructs, citizenship is a global human right, and Western nations have a moral obligatio...

       Introduction: The Unavoidable Foundation The fate of a civilization is inextricably tied to the physical and mental vitality of its people. When a nation's collective health fails, so too does its capacity for rational governance, economic productivity, and social cohesion. The crumbling pillars of American power are not ...