How far are we from unleashing a new and devastating totalitarian technocracy, in the mould of the Scientism embraced by the unwary, unquestioning and fearful majority of Germans of the 1920s and 1930s? There are lessons to be had, but the grave danger is that the modern State, its apparatchiks, propagandists, censors and courtiers are implementing the wrong ones

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Long after he was exposed as a charlatan -- a revelation in which I take no small pride -- the national broadcaster's Education unit continues to present the fauxboriginal and his profitable nonsense as the genuine article. The real lesson to be taken from his demonstration of rope-making is that, when it comes to the ABC and truth, never the twine shall meet

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Not yours, apparently, having been claimed by the nannies of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which has banned nicotine-infused vaping products without a prescription. Apart from serving as a price-maintenance scheme for organised crime and 'vape juice' black marketeers, the move actually promotes the use of traditional and far more harmful cigarettes

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Proponents of Voluntary Assisted Dying may think they are acting in good faith, but it seems they are unaware of the unspoken and unconscious cultural factors that now determine how we conceive of death. After a century of industrialised slaughter, an individual's life counts for little against the cost-benefit calculations of an increasingly intrusive administrative State

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Western civilisation is on course to be drowned by sinister forces -- Marxist greenies, governments, corporates and the media -- while useful idiots in posh inner-city suburbs cheer uneconomic and unproven technologies whose deficiencies they lack the mental wherewithal to understand. Hold on to your hats, and your diesel generator if you have one.

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Hillary Clinton wholesaled lies about the so-called Russiagate 'scandal' while, closer to home, Tim Minchin revelled in the acclaim for his nasty little ditty about Cardinal Pell. Were there any justice each would be called to account, but that's not the way of the modern world. Instead, having delivered the messages the Establishment wanted, each has been crowned with garlands

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Patients being consigned to eternity without their consent. The elderly and frail feeling themselves under pressure to end the burden on their kin. Those are but two reasons of many why assisted suicide, always presented by advocates as a humane response to age and illness, is an afront to morality, ethics and the gift of life itself

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Before our elected leaders write more cheques to finance the fashionable fantasy that 'green hydrogen' can run your home, power the family car and save the planet from a carbon catastrophe, consider what happens when the gas is burned. The short answer: water vapour. And what do catastropharians label as the world's most abundant greenhouse gas? Yes, water vapour

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Speaking as an academic, the news that the High Court had ruled against Peter Ridd was a chilling moment. The suppression of free speech has become a very real thing in many of our universities, with the silencing of minority opinion quite systematic. James Cook University's legal victory has made open and honest debate a dangerous undertaking

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What Marxism and scientism offer and permit is a drab, soulless and uninspiring view of man’s nature and the world in which we live. The practical reason for that narrow and enforced perspective was summarised in just a few short words by William Blake: “He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God". The commissars of culture can never alllow that to happen

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