Justice
A System Can Work Exactly as Designed and Still Do Harm
We're taught to ask whether the system was followed. The harder question is whether the design itself is fair.
2 June 2026 3 min read
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Every article, story and late-night ramble in one spot. Have a browse — filter by topic or search for whatever's on your mind.
Family
Beauty Is on the Inside
I gave up my dating life to raise my kids, and I'd do it again. But it's a quiet kind of lonely, looking for someone real when you're older and you've finally worked out what 'real' means.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Politics
Called a Bigot for Asking
We've turned a single word into a way of ending conversations instead of having them. Whatever you think of any given topic, that should frighten you.
2 June 2026 4 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
Did We Really Go to the Moon?
Asking the question is healthy. Here's every famous doubt laid out straight — and what the evidence actually says back. Then you decide.
2 June 2026 4 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
Epstein: You Don't Need a Conspiracy
The documented facts are so damning you don't have to invent a single thing. The real scandal isn't hidden — it's in the court record, and it's worse than most of the theories.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Life & Struggle
I Don't Look Disabled
I've got the sticker, and the leg to go with it. But because I don't look the part, the car park has opinions — and it took me nearly thirty years to stop having them about myself.
2 June 2026 4 min read
Faith
I Think We Were Made
I don't believe we're an accident. I'm just not convinced anyone's told us the whole story of how we got here — and I won't stop asking.
2 June 2026 4 min read
Life & Struggle
I Trust My Dog More Than Most People
Getting coughed and screamed at across a shop counter changed how I see humans. My dog never once made me feel that way.
2 June 2026 4 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
JFK: When the Government Disagreed With Itself
You don't have to solve the Kennedy assassination to learn its real lesson. Two official US investigations looked at it and reached opposite conclusions — and that, on its own, tells you something.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Politics
On Sex and Gender, Without the Shouting
We've made this one almost impossible to talk about. So let me try the forbidden thing — discuss it like an adult: evidence first, people respected, and the ideas fair game even when they're hard.
2 June 2026 5 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
The Anunnaki, and What the Tablets Actually Say
The internet says they were aliens from a hidden planet who engineered us to mine gold. The Sumerian tablets are real, the gods are real, and there really is a creation myth — but almost everything you've heard comes from one man the experts say made it up.
2 June 2026 4 min read
Faith
The Book the Bible Left Out
The Book of Enoch was quoted in the New Testament, confirmed ancient by the Dead Sea Scrolls — and then quietly dropped from nearly every Bible on earth. Who decides what counts as scripture?
2 June 2026 5 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
The Conspiracy That Was Real
Before you laugh at anyone who says the government would experiment on its own people — they did. It's called MKUltra, it's declassified, and they tried to burn the evidence.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Justice
The Courts Are Built for the Rich
History is written by the winner — and in a courtroom, the winner is usually whoever could afford the better storyteller.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
The Templars, the Masons, and the Hoax
Two of history's most mythologised names — one real order destroyed by a king who owed it money, one real brotherhood draped in a borrowed legend, and a 'satanic' scandal its own author admitted he made up.
2 June 2026 5 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
UFOs Went Mainstream
For fifty years, saying you saw one got you laughed out of the room. Then the Pentagon released the videos, set up an office, and admitted it had no idea what they were.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
Who Decides What's True
You're right that the news is shaped, slanted, and not the neutral truth it claims to be. But the real machinery is more mundane — and more useful to understand — than any secret cabal.
2 June 2026 3 min read
Faith
Doubt Isn't the Enemy of Faith
The opposite of faith was never doubt. It's certainty that refuses to be questioned.
1 June 2026 2 min read
Family
I Loved My Life
Before everything got complicated, painful and heavy — there was a free-range childhood of beaches, footy and dogs, and I loved every bit of it.
1 June 2026 3 min read
Family
I Was the Strict One
I spent years just fighting for the right to be their dad. Then I spent the rest learning that being a good one is harder than winning the access ever was.
1 June 2026 3 min read
World
The Trade in Innocents
People call the trafficking and abuse of children 'satanic' because ordinary words buckle under it. They're not wrong about the evil — but the truth is closer to home, and far harder to look at, than the myth.
1 June 2026 3 min read
Politics
How the System Prescribes Addiction
We treat addiction as a personal failing. A lot of the time, it was handed out on a prescription pad — and then blamed on the patient.
31 May 2026 4 min read
World
Russia, Ukraine, and the First Casualty
They say truth is the first casualty of war. In this one, it was shot before the first tank moved — by everyone with a flag to wave.
31 May 2026 4 min read
Family
Starting Again After It Falls Apart
Nobody hands you a manual for rebuilding a family. You work it out one ordinary day at a time.
30 May 2026 3 min read
World
The Killing of Innocents
A child killed in a war is a child killed. The flag overhead doesn't change what's under the rubble.
30 May 2026 3 min read
Politics
Judge the Outcome, Not the Jersey
We've started supporting politics like a footy team. It's a great way to get played.
29 May 2026 3 min read
Life & Struggle
The Strongest Man I Knew
My dad, Dave McIntosh, scored against Celtic on his debut and kept Kenny Dalglish quiet. Dementia is taking him a piece at a time now — and there's no muscle that fights it.
28 May 2026 6 min read
Life & Struggle
Why I Built Do It Better
Not because I have the answers — because I think we need better questions.
28 May 2026 2 min read
Life & Struggle
The Plant Over the Pills
After the accident I was handed a pharmacy. The thing that actually gave me my life back was cannabis — and I'll say so plainly.
27 May 2026 5 min read
Life & Struggle
The Years I Lost
I was an addict. I won't dress it up, and I won't hide it — because the hiding is half the problem.
26 May 2026 4 min read
Justice
Accused, No Proof Required
An accusation can cost you your home, your kids, and your name long before anyone asks for evidence.
25 May 2026 4 min read
Family
The Hardest Kind of Helpless
Becoming a visitor in your own children's lives, and worrying about a world you no longer have any power to change.
24 May 2026 3 min read
Life & Struggle
What Pain Taught Me
Living with something that can't be fixed changes how you see almost everything.
24 May 2026 3 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
Drowning in Information, Starving for Truth
We have more information than any humans in history, and somehow we're less sure of anything.
23 May 2026 2 min read
Faith
What We Leave Behind
You won't be remembered for what you owned. You'll be remembered for how you made people feel.
22 May 2026 2 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
How to Change Your Mind
Changing your mind in light of better evidence isn't weakness. It's the whole point of having one.
21 May 2026 2 min read
Technology
Can AI Help Us Do Better?
The technology is here. The harder question is what kind of people we'll be while we use it.
20 May 2026 2 min read
Politics
Free Speech and Its Hard Edges
Defending speech you hate is the price of the thing. Pretending speech has no consequences is a different game entirely.
20 May 2026 2 min read
Technology
We Shaped the Tools, Now They Shape Us
Every technology quietly rearranges the people who use it. The question is whether we're paying attention while it does.
19 May 2026 2 min read
Life & Struggle
Back to School at My Age
Being the oldest bloke in the lecture theatre is humbling, clarifying, and the best thing I've done in years.
18 May 2026 2 min read
Life & Struggle
Resilience Isn't Bouncing Back
You don't bounce back to who you were. You carry what happened and keep walking anyway.
17 May 2026 2 min read
Truth & Critical Thinking
Question Everything, But Prove Something
Healthy scepticism and lazy cynicism look similar from a distance. They aren't the same thing.
16 May 2026 2 min read
Life & Struggle
Blokes Don't Talk — And It's Costing Us
We taught a couple of generations of men to bottle it up. The bill came in, and it's brutal.
15 May 2026 2 min read
Family
Why 'Just Leave' Is the Wrong Question
If you've never been in it, the exit looks obvious. From the inside, it's the hardest door in the world.
14 May 2026 2 min read
Life & Struggle
Living in a Body That Won't Cooperate
Disability isn't a tragedy or an inspiration. Most days it's just admin.
12 May 2026 2 min read
Life & Struggle
Recovery Isn't a Straight Line
Healing gets sold as a tidy upward graph. The real thing zigzags, doubles back, and skips the ending.
11 May 2026 2 min read
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