Labor was declared the winner of the South Australian state election before the first vote was cast. Victory was confirmed a few hours later with what looks to be a significant swing of approval for Peter Malinauskas. At the time of writing, the outrageously high polls for One Nation appear to be … real. The ABC election screen has them at 21 per cent ...

Shortly after midnight, Iran launched two long-range missiles towards the US base at Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal citing multiple US officials. This indicates a strike range of up to 4,000 kilometres. Neither missile struck the base, but the attack marked ...

Open the first page of any British passport and you will be met by a request on behalf of the King to give its ‘bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary’. These words are a great source of pride: they symbolise the privilege any Brit abroad has to approach a British embassy and ask the government for help, be that with a lost passport, ...

There are a lot of things that Ozempic & Co. have killed business for. Weight Watchers. Diets from cabbage soup to the boiled egg. Fat-but-jolly female film stars. The latest victim is the Lycra Company, which has filed for bankruptcy after sinking into a whopping $1.2 billion (£897 billion) of debt. That’s a lot of leotards! Invented in 1958 by ...

The most important issue this week was Labor’s desperate ‘don’t panic!’ messaging. Government officials claimed the problem was not a low fuel supply, but high demand. Australia has a jerry can apocalypse. There is a surge of ‘farm thieves’ cutting locks and raiding rural properties. Tractors are being drained and parked cars siphoned like it’s season ...

Louis Theroux, the Lib Dem Alan Whicker, has now had his turn at the manosphere. His new Netflix film Inside the Manosphere has gone down more or less as you would expect: clippable footage of insecure men, prompted along by Theroux’s trademark awkward questioning. But none of this is especially difficult. The men he films are not master manipulators ...

The magnitude and speed of the US and Israeli airstrikes eliminating Iranian regime officials can be explained in part by their unprecedented use of advanced technology and AI systems. The US military embraced AI earlier this year when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered the Department of War to ‘accelerate America’s Military AI Dominance by becoming ...

This week, Sri Lankans took Wednesday off. They’ll be doing the same next week – and for as long as the Iran war continues to disrupt global oil supplies. The country’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced a four-day week in order to preserve fuel. Around 90 per cent of all energy supplies that pass through the Strait of Hormuz are imported by ...

Jalisco, Mexico No one seems to know exactly how El Mencho was killed. We are told the feared leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was captured by the Mexican army during a firefight in late February, and subsequently died of his wounds. Beyond that, there is very little information. Why are the Mexican and US governments being so secretive ...