Paramount leader for life, Xi Jinping is reverting to the model of Stalin, Hitler and Mao, seeking to resurrect the essential lawlessness and instability of twentieth century totalitarianism. The notion so fondly held in the West of the Middle Kingdom embracing liberalism is melting before our eyes

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Climateers have gathered in Madrid to talk up the end of the world and how best to strip non-believers of scepticism and, most of all, their money. This year, going by the ABC's sources, the planet's armageddon moment has passed, or is looming, or upon us right this instant. Whatever. But do hand over the cash

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In theory, every citizen is free to speak his or mind, just as others enjoy equal access to present their opposing views. The reality is nothing like that, as Margaret Court, Peter Ridd, Israel Folau and so many others roughed up by the Wokeocracy and shunned by useful idiots might tell you

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Fauxboriginal Bruce Pascoe is a great favourite with the truth-averse elite, so it surprised me not at all to find The Saturday Paper, that grease trap and resting place for paid-off Fairfax and ABC sorts, springing reflectively to his defence. His champion, Rick Morton, should have remained seated

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The poet, essayist and wit was a Sydney Tech High schoolmate of rugby league's revered champion Reg Gasnier, who died in 2014 at 74. James penned this recollection a decade or so earlier, when the Prince of Centres had been reduced by the consequences of a brain tumor to a shadow of his old self

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Do we put too much store on dragging out our lives? There are any number of set days when there are collections in the cause of finding cures for various morbidities. None of it does any good in the end result. We will all die anyway and within a comparatively short space of time.

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Poets and Quadrant contributors Joe Dolce and Marilyn Peck took up their pens upon hearing that leukemia had finally snuffed the light of a great man's genius. Here are their tributes, penned as the news of his passing led news bulletins and front pages

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"If, from now on, dams are built instead of desalination plants — which in recent years have been proved to yield a fraction of the water at a multiple of the cost — then we will be able to tell that sanity has returned to at least one section of the vast area covered by the pretensions of the climatologists"

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A devoted, dear and longtime friend of 'Quadrant', Clive's wit and insight pepper our archives. There will be more on this man and his towering talents, but for now, as the news sinks in, a reminder of the great treasure this world has lost

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Angus Taylor's ham-fisted bid to nail one of Australia's wokest green councils for high-flying hypocrisy came to earth with a thud, but the origin of the doctored doument he produced is only one aspect of this affair. The unnamed benefactors covering the costs of many other trips are equally intriguing

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