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The right to die
Suicide was once illegal, and failed attempts frequently led to prosecution. In Medieval England, suicides were denied a Christian burial.…
Vatican offers the keys of the kingdom of heaven to Xi Jinping
The Vatican recently released a statement about China. It said nothing about the persecution of Christians and other believers, the…
Lying, deceit, and prevarication throughout our New Zealand politburo
On this side of the Tasman, the circumstances relating to the ramming through Parliament under urgency of the now misnamed…
Energy collapse: it all begins with a market cap
Thousands of years of experience – from the ancient Babylonians and Roman Emperor Diocletian, through to modern times – have…
Ben Falconer to appeal mandatory vaccination decision
Spectator Australia readers will recall an application for judicial review of the mandatory vaccination orders in Western Australia in that…
There is nothing ‘smart’ about surveillance cities
On December 3, Jo Nova penned an article, Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about…
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
In the novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi gave a heart-wrenching account of her experience as an English teacher in the…
Western Australia’s conversion therapy ban
A media statement made by the McGowan government on December 1, indicates the Labor-majority government is set to introduce a bill…
What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder
Recently, I sat down to interview an Aboriginal Elder from South Australia for the ExCandidates podcast, of which I am…
NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured
If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…
Albo’s gas cap folly
If the threat of gas rationing and blackouts on the first day of winter this year taught us anything it…
Twitter’s smoking gun
The latest batch of Twitter Files have dropped, and boy are they a doozy. Yet again, the conspiracy theorists have…
Rewiring the nation
Mr Malinauskas, Premier of the Australian colony of South Australia, let slip in recent times that he believed there should…
Entering a new Dark Age
‘Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.’ – Heinrich Heine History has always been problematic for tyrants.…
The Nanny State Awards
This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the…
There are no degrees of innocence
The golden thread rule running through criminal law in our common law system is that a person accused of a…
Elton John’s Twitter curtain call
Elton John has quit twitter. The iconic singer/songwriter advised his 1.1 million followers on Twitter early this morning: ‘All my…
Why we never win
Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak
Therapeutic justice: the unreligion of our age
I am not a lawyer, but if I take at face value the description of a number of cases in…
Under-age voting is coming
The current push from the Greens to change the voting age relates to self-interest, rather than the interest of the…
Long Covid: hysteria that won’t die
If you think that the Covid madness is over, think again. I’m not talking about China, where people are being…
Parks Australia: when bureaucracy turns racist
Imagine telling a Brit of migrant origin that they’re forbidden from visiting the White Cliffs of Dover because they are…
Freedom, the Liberal Party, and Fleetwood Mac
Last week, tragedy struck two institutions I love. Both of them are devoted to an idea I’m passionate about: freedom.…
Beyond the reach of government
Everyone these days is pretty sure they’re right, no matter which side of any given debate they are on. There…
The coming crash of the climate cult
The Climate Cult worships two green idols – electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN…
