Has AI Made the World Forget the Lessons of Covid?
Modern science has long accepted controlled hazards in pursuit of progress. AI poses a more unsettling problem: the technology und…
John McGuirk
John is an Irish writer and journalist who has appeared in multiple international publications including the Wall Street Journal. He was founding Editor of Gript Media in Ireland, and writes with a particular focus on the nexus between cultural shifts and politics. He lives in Tipperary Ireland with his wife Orla and their cocker spaniel, Izzy.
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The 9/11 Security Revolution: What If It Did Not Make Us Any Safer?
The post-9/11 world created many new realities and one new industry: security in the West was never the same again. But has it lef…
MAGA’s New Policy: Pay Working Mothers to Stay at Home
The long, slow death of Reaganism: the White House’s new policy is to create another major childcare entitlement for married women…
Trump's Historic Bribe Offer: The $5,000 That Marks an End to Traditional Conservatism
Trump’s latest promise is more than an expensive campaign gambit. It reveals how far a movement once defined by fiscal restraint a…
The UK-Israel Row Is a Black Moment for the West
The British government has come under significant political pressure to act against Israel, and Israel has done little to ease tha…
Amid Favorable Political Winds, Reform UK Is Suddenly Adrift
For Reform UK, problems are growing – just when the party’s opportunity should be clearer than ever. Can Nigel Farage, written off…
A Drone Army from Porn Taxes: Ukraine Proposal Rethinks War Funding
For Ukraine, a decision on whether to legalize its porn industry to fund the war effort is about much more than just military conf…
Australian Tribunal Asked: Are Puberty Blockers a Human Right?
The battle over transgender treatments is playing an increasingly prominent role in Australia’s volatile politics – and now the le…
Europe’s Bureaucracy: The Real Obstacle to Restricting Russian Travel
Few issues expose the incoherence of European policy quite like migration and border security. On Russian travel alone, the bloc's…
When Welfare Spend Tops Tax Take: The Coming Fiscal Crisis
Across Europe, welfare spending is ballooning, and in many countries it now outstrips income tax revenue. No amount of political m…
Ireland's Unsustainable Surplus: The Economic Crisis in Plain Sight
The EU built an entire architecture of fiscal rules to prevent countries from running unsustainable budget deficits. Now it must c…
Some Regulators Want You to Eat Bugs. Maybe … That’s Okay?
For many people, insects are considered the ideal food of the future. Others view this prospect with horror. Does old-fashioned li…
What Trump and the Right Forgot About “Weakness”
For years Donald Trump and his supporters have assailed previous US presidents as "weak". But the problem with appearing "strong" …
New Paper Reveals: Fertility Crisis Is Cultural as Well as Economic
It is often assumed that economic factors lie behind the fertility crisis. But a new paper unveils a stark reality: people want fe…
US Democrats Have a Hasan Piker Problem – and Cannot Solve It
Michigan is a state with a large Jewish and Muslim population, both key constituencies for Democrats. Now the party is being force…
Lindsay Clancy: Why Is the World Addicted to American Justice?
Why has the Lindsay Clancy case suddenly become - as so many US cases before it - a cultural touchstone? The nature of the US just…
Bank of England Warns: This AI Horse Might Fall, You Know
As global fortunes are poured into AI, the Bank of England governor sounds a warning, as he should: heavily favored horses fall at…
Birmingham's Flag War Is Britain's Culture War Distilled
When one sees a British flag flying in Britain, does one see a symbol of patriotism or of hate and shame? No question distills the…
Further European Spending on Nuclear Weapons Is Strategic Folly
Europe has under-invested in its own defense for generations – but there is one thing it already possesses: a nuclear arsenal. Spe…
Iran, Canada and the Paper Tiger of Trumpian Nationalism
Conflicts – whether trade wars or hot wars – are often decided not by who can inflict more pain, but by who can endure more pain. …
Why Burqa and Niqab Face-Covering Bans Deserve More Thought
As Portugal becomes the latest EU state to move toward a ban on full-face coverings, it remains worth asking what the downsides ar…
Shakespeare Understood Young Men Better Than UK and Irish Politicians
The recklessness of young men – so vividly on show last week in both the UK and Ireland – is nothing new. The state's apparent ina…
Monty Python Britain: “Please don’t rape the women”, Migrants Asked
The United Kingdom, in its determination to try everything other than actually restrict immigration, is now openly asking newcomer…
If Birds and Whales Could Vote, Wind Turbines Would Fall
Europe's wind energy revolution is not without its casualties: official figures from Germany reveal the large-scale killing of kit…
The US's Debt Mountain Has Passed $40tn: Yes, It Is Time to Panic
In the classic Trumpian idiom, America's debt is now bigger than ever before. Unless urgent action is taken, a world-historic econ…
UK Greens Declare: It Is Time to Regulate the Evil Media
Having spent years complaining that rich proprietors should not decide what the public gets to read, parts of the Green movement h…
US Economists: Welcome to the Great Replacement. By ... Machines?
US economists have crunched the numbers. At current birth rates, humanity is headed for a crisis. But there is good news: the Rise…
Jason Arday, Fallen Foot Soldier of the West’s Good Lie Project
Jason Arday’s rise to and tragic fall from the summit of British academia was only ever possible in a world where some falsehoods …
Milei’s “Fiscal Shackle” Has Electrified Argentina – but Will It Work?
Imagine if politicians who were careless with the budget were simply denied a salary – that is the populist proposal from Argentin…
Brussels Surveys the Ceuta Fiasco – and Awards Spain a Gold Star
The European Council’s emergency meeting today to discuss the Ceuta crisis ended in a unanimous conclusion: The Spanish are a grea…
Britain's Puberty Blocker Experiment
Britain's controversial puberty blocker trial is set to go ahead, with 226 children to be administered the drugs. The British High…
Romance of the Other: Cultural Blindness and the Murder of Maren Sømme
Norway has been rocked this week by the murder of 30-year-old Maren Sømme, allegedly at the hands of a 34-year-old Afghan asylum s…
"We're taxing the rich" – Mamdani's Socialist Honeymoon in New York
In New York City, the socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is enjoying a remarkable political honeymoon, battering the rich to feed the …
Ceuta Crisis in Numbers: Claims of Restored Control Do Not Add Up
Spain and the EU insist that the crisis in Ceuta has abated and that control has been restored. Yet even now, they seem to have li…
UEFA Had Little Moral Standing Against Infantino's Rapacity
FIFA’s aborted proposal to sell off chunks of the World Cup prompted UEFA to threaten a boycott. But European football has helped …
Not Cricket: A Village Scandal Tests Englishness
As silly season dawns in the English press, a tale of cheating in a game of village cricket has provoked an unprecedented uproar. …
Ceuta Crisis: The Invasion of Spain Is a Gut Check for Europe
As thousands of Maghrebi men pour across the Spanish border unchecked, Europe faces a true gut-check moment. No longer can those w…
Winning by Losing: Court Defeat Set to Boost Hanson's Rise Down Under
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was, once again, on the wrong end of a court ruling, finding herself declared a racist. In the ro…
Endangered Species: The Vanishing British Millionaire
Amid the serious political climate change of the past decade or more, several species have found themselves threatened. None more …
Earthquake: Fauci Stuns Washington, Pleads the Fifth
Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment before a US Senate committee leaves observers with one question he will now…
In Northern Ireland, Transgender Activists Score an Own Goal
In Belfast, an unremarkable event was due to be held at a public festival, at which gender-critical feminists would speak. Nobody …
On Remigration, a Brussels Misstep Hands Activists a Political Win
Remigration activists were in a position to get a million signatures urging the EU to engage. Brussels blocked them – it would hav…
Trump's Tariff Plan: A Cynical Obsession, a Costly Error
According to President Trump, the latest round of tariffs on US allies is not really about trade at all, but the protection of wor…
The Bizarre College Rape Case That Shames the Irish Media
Earlier this year, a tale of a college rape ruining a young woman's dreams of life as a doctor became a massive story in the Irish…
„Nazi“ No Longer: Zelensky’s Fascinating Laura Loomer Gamble
This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sat down with US conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer – a sudden convert to the Ukra…
Could a New Charge Bring Down the House of Tate?
For years, allegations of sexual misconduct involving women have failed to seriously threaten the mythos surrounding the Tate brot…
Ukraine’s Military Leadership Chaos: The Unexpected Cost of Success
Ukraine's sudden strategic initiative in its war with Russia has surprised the world and imbued many Ukrainians with hope – but Pr…
The Great BBC “Poofter” Row and the Cost of Political Correctness
A BBC presenter used an unapproved word in a meeting. Somebody complained, and he got in trouble. But does such PC policing of wor…
Britain's Marketplace of Ideas Now Has Border Guards
The UK once prided itself on being a place where controversial arguments could be aired freely and openly. Today, a new generation…
Who Governs Europe: Voters or Judges?
In Switzerland, two prisoners objected to their food, saying meals containing even a trace of animal product breached their religi…