A possible marketing stunt to boost collapsing mRNA shot uptake after inking a $70 billion deal with Pfizer. According to a memorandum released today by the White House physician, President Donald J. Trump "received" both an updated COVID-19 mRNA booster and an influenza vaccination during a scheduled evaluation at Walter...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights" against Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian regime. It was a well-earned nod to her courage. Yet, the announcement was overshadowed by the glaring omission of U.S. President Donald Trump, who ...

On October 10, 2025, President Donald Trump dropped a digital grenade on Truth Social, announcing an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese imports effective November 1, or sooner if Beijing escalates further. This move catapults U.S. duties on Chinese goods from their current average of around 30%, to a staggering 130%, effectively pricing most imp...

In the ever-evolving world of fitness content on YouTube, a seismic shift is occurring. A new voice, Solomon Nelson, has emerged as a formidable force, challenging the established order of the so-called "science-based" fitness community. Through a series of explosive videos, Nelson has ignited a firestorm of controversy, exposing what some are call...

Imagine a cabal of kings, billionaires, and bureaucrats, cloaked in the virtuous robes of "sustainability," plotting to dismantle the very freedoms that built the West. It's not a Tom Clancy thriller; it's the daily dispatch from the World Economic Forum's Davos dreamers. Antonio Graceffo's latest takedown lays it bare: Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Antó...

In the fluorescent-lit trenches of family court, where dreams dissolve faster than alimony (US)/spouse maintenance (Australia) cheques, a quiet cataclysm unfolds. Mark Keenan's The War on Men isn't hyperbole; it's a field manual for a battlefield most of us never signed up for. Picture this: You, a man in your prime, pledging forever in a tuxedo th...

Picture this: You're staring at the night sky, a canvas of stars whispering secrets from billions of years ago. Science has mapped those twinkles with telescopes and equations, charting galaxies and black holes like a cosmic GPS. Materialism, its philosophical sidekick, insists it's all just atoms bouncing in the void, no ghosts, no gods, just matt...

Oh, the irony: A Harvard-bred primatologist swings from the ivy towers to declare humanity's self-regard a tragic flaw, the hubris fuelling our ecological Armageddon. Christine Webb's The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters (Avery, 2025) paints Homo sapiens as the villain in nature's Greek tragedy, blinded by anthropoc...

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is introducing a new form of slavery. Perhaps we ought not to be surprised. After all, in the Politics, Aristotle famously argued that whilst people differed on the details of what was permissible regarding the practice of slavery, it could not be held that slavery was not itself a part of nature. Whether slavery ...

In a world where Big Pharma's ads promise miracle cures between football timeouts and doctors wield prescriptions like magic wands (not me), Jacob Stegenga's 2018 opus, Medical Nihilism, drops a truth bomb: We should have "little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions." Ouch. That's not the feel-good script from your annual checku...

Victor Gao, that evergreen mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, drops a nuclear mic like it's casual Friday at the Politburo. In a speech that's rippling through Pakistani media and X feeds like a bad case of digital heartburn, Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization and Deng Xiaoping's old English whisperer, lays it out...

October 10, 2025, and the NYC subway, once the throbbing artery of the American Dream, now a vein pulsing with venom, claims another soul. Not in some shadowy midnight ambush, but broad daylight at Jay Street-MetroTech, where the hum of commuters masks the primal roar of unchecked rage. Nicola Tanzi, 64, a beloved Italian security guard and churchg...

October 2025, and the quiet streets of Murphy, Texas, hum with a low, ominous buzz. The picket fences still gleam, but the air smells less of apple pie and more of... what, exactly? Myrrh and ambition? In this sleepy Dallas-Fort Worth exurb, where once the only drama was a late HOA fee, the shadow of a new empire creeps: Oasis Springs Manor, a fres...

Welcome to the coliseum of 2025, where thumbs-up and thumbs-down aren't decided by emperors in togas but by faceless bureaucrats, algorithm overlords, and late-night monologists with a microphone and a grudge! Last Tuesday's Senate Commerce Committee hearing, titled, with all the subtlety of a Trump tweet, Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big ...

 Ah, the sweet, satirical symmetry of American justice in 2025. Just when you thought the political revenge tour had hit its plot twist ceiling, Trump back in the Oval, Truth Social ablaze with calls for "JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!" — enter the Jameses. Not one, but two high-profile prosecutors named James, both now staring down indictment...

Leith van Onselen's piece (link below), offers a passionate and pragmatic takedown of the idea that Australia should hike its retirement age, currently set at 67 for Age Pension eligibility, to tackle ageing demographics and labour shortages. Drawing parallels to Germany's controversial push toward 70 or even 73, he argues that such a move wou...

Charles Taylor's Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment (2024) is a profound and timely exploration of poetry's enduring power to illuminate meaning in an era marked by nihilism and despair. As a follow-up to his groundbreaking The Language Animal, this work delves into the legacy of Romantic and post-Romantic poetics, offering a c...

The 2023 New Zealand census, dropped by Stats NZ on October 3, 2025, isn't just a spreadsheet, it's a siren for those who see a Tower of Babel crumbling in Aotearoa's future. The numbers scream change: "European only" New Zealanders, at 2,790,354 out of 4,993,923, now cling to a 55.9% share, down from 59.8% in 2018, 61.4% in 2013, and a commanding ...

In the damp and musky halls of Western Australia's Parliament, on a crisp September evening in 2025, Indian-origin Labor MP Parwinder Kaur unleashed a speech that ricocheted across the globe like a digital boomerang. Delivered amid a surge of anti-immigration protests, fuelled by housing crunches, job anxieties, and echoes of global nativism, Kaur,...

Hiding in the shadowed salons of power, where champagne flutes clink over the muffled cries of the silenced, "hate speech" isn't a shield against bigotry, it's a straitjacket for dissent. Fresh off Lionel Shriver's razor-sharp takedown in Spiked on October 7, 2025, where she eviscerates the UK's descent into speech-policing purgatory as a "poisonou...