There are few areas where the distance between public judgment and legal judgment is as wide as in war. The case of Ben Roberts-Smith sits precisely in that gap — between what can be said in headlines and what must ultimately be proven in court. At the centre of the debate is not simply one man, but a broader question: how should a liberal democrac...
An epistemic crisis is a breakdown in society's shared system for determining what is true. It's not mere disagreement over policy or values. It's when large swaths of the population no longer trust the same institutions, experts, or evidence to establish basic facts. People retreat into rival realities: one side's "settled science" or "offic...
The Romans didn't fall in a single dramatic crash. They partied their way into it. By the late Empire (3rd–5th centuries AD), the bread and circuses machine was running at full throttle. Free grain dole for the urban poor. Gladiatorial games that made the Super Bowl look like a polite debate club. Chariot races that doubled as political bloodsport....
Scientists die. A lot. There are millions of them globally, thousands in sensitive U.S. aerospace, nuclear, plasma physics, and infrared telescope gigs tied to NASA/JPL, Los Alamos, Air Force Research Lab, etc. People vanish on hikes. Heart attacks happen. Murders occur (sometimes by identifiable stalkers or ex-classmates with motives). Phone...
There is something faintly ridiculous, almost darkly comic, about the idea that two adversaries standing on the lip of confrontation might step back, look at the narrow throat through which a fifth of the world's energy flows, and decide not to fight over it, but to tax it. The Strait of Hormuz, that cramped stretch of water between Iran and ...
There is something faintly ridiculous — almost endearing — about the name Claude. It sounds like an uncle who arrives unannounced at Christmas, laughs too loudly at his own jokes, and insists on explaining things you already understand. Claude is not the name of apocalypse. Claude is the name of mild inconvenience. Claude brings a bottle of wine no...
When is a hate crime not a hate crime? In two-tier Britain, the answer is when it's against whites. I've previously written at length about this double standard for the Daily Sceptic, with the most obvious example of it being the failure over many years to ever prosecute the grooming gangs as racial hate crimes. It's clear these laws were two-tier ...
In February 2026, a peer-reviewed case study finally saw the light of day in the journal Oncotarget. Titled "Exploring the potential link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and cancer: A case report with a review of haematopoietic malignancies with insights into pathogenic mechanisms," it detailed the tragic story of a healthy, athletic woman in he...
In early April 2026, reports surfaced that India's Border Security Force (BSF) circulated an internal memo directing field units to assess the "operational feasibility" of deploying venomous snakes and crocodiles as a living deterrent along riverine stretches of the 4,096 km India-Bangladesh border. The plan, framed as a "biological barrier,"...
President Trump has posted perhaps his most unhinged rave on Truth Social, attacking "nobody" critics like Tucker Carlson. Why he would feel the need to do so is unclear, but perhaps that's what people with large over-inflated egos do. When he is impeached, after the Democrats get the House and Senate, he will have ample leisure time to reflect on ...
While much of public attention has moved on from the COVID-19 years, legal challenges to pandemic-era policies are still working their way through Australian institutions. One such case, brought by Queensland legal professional Jayden Beale, raises questions about how far governments can go in restricting individual liberties during a public health...
In June 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn — the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, survivor of Soviet labor camps, and recent exile in the West — stood before Harvard's graduating class and delivered one of the most uncomfortable commencement addresses in the university's history. Titled "A World Split Apart," the speech was not the ex...
My heavy two-volume tiny-print edition of the complete Oxford English Dictionary (OED), with its accompanying magnifying glass, has been a constant companion for much of my adult life. Ever since learning that the poet W.H. Auden in his study in Austria had surrounded himself with 12 of the 13 massive normal-print-size volumes of this dictionary – ...
Actor James Woods used a Sunday night X post to note that Britain went-all in on disarming its people in the late 20th century and now is "standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss." Woods wrote, "Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today." To View Social Me...
A website called AFRU recently published an article with the blunt headline: "Why a 'rise in sexual assaults' by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism." The piece, written under the byline "Conscious. Caring. Comfortable.," openly argues that increased sexual violence against white Western women by refugees and migrants is not only tolerab...
The Townhall column by Les Rubin (March 28, 2026) applies Friedrich Hayek's classic 1944 warning in The Road to Serfdom directly to the contemporary United States. Rubin argues that America is sliding toward "serfdom" — not through sudden revolution, but through the gradual, well-intentioned expansion of government power, central planning, massive ...
"This study should set off all the alarm bells. It is a societal time bomb. We must not only talk about migration, but also about integration and religion" A newly released study by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), nearly 50 percent of Muslims under the age of 40 in Germany hold "Islamist" views, with these Muslims expressing an att...
The recent U.S. rescue operation for a downed F-15E Strike Eagle crew member deep inside Iran has sparked intense speculation. Critics, including former CIA analyst Larry Johnson in an interview with George Galloway, claim the high-profile exfiltration was largely a $400 million cover story for a failed special forces raid aimed at seizing enriched...
The Substack article by Michael Snyder (published April 6, 2026) is titled "A Shortage of Nearly Everything" is Coming if The War Does Not End Soon. It warns that the ongoing US-Israel conflict with Iran — now about one month in, with the Strait of Hormuz heavily disrupted or effectively closed, and only about to be temporarily opened under the pre...
Which is why I am proposing to amend our constitution to enshrine speech in law! 'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they just don't want to hear.' Those are the words of George Orwell, and they are as true today as they were when he wrote them. I stand here today in defence of something that many Australians a...
