On the 28 November 2024, the Australian government passed a bill that required a minimum age of 16 to create an account on certain social media platforms. Coming into effect on the 10 December 2025, the ban is the first of its kind and the subsequent events since the imposition of the law have been watched very closely by the rest of the world, with many countries seriously considering the idea of introducing similar legislation. Leader of the Conservative party, Kemi Badenoc
By Lucas Nahal In the last few weeks, the Islamic Republic regime has undergone its gravest challenge since the revolution of 1979. On December 28 2025, a small group of shopkeepers and merchants in Tehran went on strike to protest Iran’s worsening economic conditions. By the advent of the New Year, the demonstrations had spread to almost every major city, featuring a massive coalition of students, merchants and the previously dormant Iranian middle class. It is estimated tha
By Adrian Khodavardar When Donald Trump withdrew the United States from major international climate frameworks, most notably the Paris Climate Agreement, the decision was widely framed as symbolic: a temporary rupture in an otherwise irreversible global transition. That interpretation understates the damage. The US exit did not merely slow climate action; it reshaped how climate cooperation is perceived, contested, and legitimised across the international system. The United S
“Our wonderful country is sick” and “Britain is Broken” were some of the words spoken by Zahawi and Jenrick, as the two senior Conservatives announced they were joining Farage’s Reform UK over the past week. Tory defections to Reform are now happening at a rate where it is hard to believe the Conservative Party is the longest existing political party in the West. Each week Conservatives once considered stoic and loyal are deserting the party that gave rise to their politic