Month: December 2025

Microsoft has just quietly slashed expectations for Copilot, its much-hyped AI wonderchild that was supposed to revolutionise work. It turns out the thing can’t reliably perform even basic tasks. After billions in development and a […]

At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of sanctions upon individuals deemed hostile to free speech. On December 23, the US State […]

Christmas 2025, and Australia’s teenagers are busy unwrapping their presents: new VPNs, borrowed parental logins, and AI-generated profile photos that make them look fortysomething. Welcome to Labor’s world-first social media ban, two weeks old and […]

There is an old, tired story humanity tells itself: that to be strong is to conquer. To dominate land, resources, and even other people. But this story has a fatal flaw. It is authored by […]

A Reply to Tony Abbott: Grief Is Not a Mandate Editor’s Note In the aftermath of the Bondi killings, former prime minister Tony Abbott declared the attack “an assault on all Australians,” using the language […]

Dear friends and readers, In this season of twinkling lights and familiar carols, the world around us can sometimes feel heavier than the haze hanging over a hot December day. Troubled times remind us how […]

It has become a wallowing cringe. The extolling of multi-culti values, the incessant self-praise of diversity, variety and cosmopolitanism, only to then impose, in the name of such values, a restrictive regime of speech, language […]

In Part 1, we examined the paradox of a godless society where emptying churches still wield outsized power; granting exemptions to discriminate in hiring, for example, while Australian media elevates religious identity above all else. […]

By Niu Honglin As a podcaster, I work on shows with different themes. Some are analytical. Some are historical. Some are very entertaining. But this one stayed with me in a different way. This article […]

War is not a natural disaster. It is a system – a complex, enduring machinery with distinct, interlocking parts that have been refined over centuries. To understand why humanity remains trapped in cycles of conflict, […]