Redemption is absent from the woke catechism, an omission that sees your modern-day Jacobins celebrate each other's morality when destroying the lives and reputations of others. As Aristotle noted, all putative virtues must have their have a dark sides, and just now the gloom deepens by the day

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Study England's ledger of national morbidity, as I have been doing to occupy my idle hours, and deaths in 2020 show an unsettling 13 per cent increase. Compare this with the average of the previous five years, however, and the figure that emerges is an increase of just 2 per cent, which hardly justifies the pounding the panic button has been taking

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Of all the weirdness COVID-19 has inflicted on Australia, perhaps the most bizarre example of the virus' impact on the bureaucratic mind emerged this week from the Therapeutic Goods Administration -- a 'cease and desist order' directed at a group of physicians who desire the freedom, now denied them, to prescribe hydroxychloroquine

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There is a world of difference between a complainant and a victim. Yet when crimes of a sexual nature are being alleged the term victim is often thrown about. Implicitly this suggests that a crime has indeed been committed and someone, often known, is the culprit

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President Biden says his Executive Orders are aimed at unifying the country after the divisiveness and confrontations of the Trump era. There is ample evidence, however, that these Orders, rather than unifying the country, will only inflame the Trump constituency

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Until opinions aren't censored and their advocates de-platformed, until law and order is highly prized, until jobs are a priority, and until education and hard work are widely esteemed, things look bleak for the US. And that means things look bleak here in Australia and throughout the West

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It seems Australian adults cannot be given the facts and then trusted to make decisions concerning what risks they are willing to take.  We have 25 million-plus people, which means that 0.1 per cent of the total population has tested positive for COVID-19 and 0.0036 per cent has died. Yet on bended knee we surrender our liberties

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I watched with a dismay -- nay, disgust -- as Victoria's Liberals either supported or abstained from voting on their state's appalling Conversion Practices Prohibition Act, much as their South Australian counterparts endorsed the vile Termination of Pregnancy Bill. Make no mistake, evil is not merely afoot, it is endorsed by those who should be its most determined foes

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To the Left, all change is 'progress', even when harmful, degenerative or regressive. Conservatives, on the other hand, believe history is instructive, and ancient boundaries should at least be understood before they are moved, let alone demolished. In a few words, conservatives appreciate that our forebears were fallible, but not fools

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Given his brazen rewriting of Aboriginal history and the support he has received from both the gullible and the duplicitous, the wonder is that the 'Dark Emu' author refrained from claiming Jesus was an Aborigine. Instead, in the pages of the Nine press, he directed his unique talent for filling pages with slapdash nonsense to misrepresenting Christianity

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