by PAUL COLLITS – IT MUST be God’s sense of irony that has delivered us the very worst Pope at the time of our greatest need for clarity and spine. We have been delivered a pontiff lacking any commitment to push back…
by PAUL COLLITS – A CONSERVATIVE giant passed in January 2023. I have few bookshelves where just about every book is written by one author. One is the late Sir Roger Scruton. Another is Joseph Ratzinger. A third is WF Buckley Jr….
by PAUL COLLITS – SKY News political commentator Andrew Clennell has suggested that the upcoming election might well be a repeat of 1995. The Liberals lost that one, delivering government to Bob Carr and ushering in a period of long and hugely…
by PAUL COLLITS – GEORGE Orwell, sadly much quoted in these times (because everything he warned about has pretty much come true), called it “doublethink”. A simple definition is as follows – “the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE current campaign to rid the country of Christian schools is reaching a crescendo. Once again, the rainbow/atheist ideologues have managed to unite the Catholics and the Protestants, not to mention the Jews and the Muslims as well….
by PAUL COLLITS – MODERN Australian politicians rarely say what they mean, never mean what they say and always avoid mentioning the things they intend to do if elected. They play “look over there” politics, never earning a mandate while peppering their…
by PAUL COLLITS – RECENT events have highlighted a great contrast between two prominent Liberal public figures who, on the face of it, should have a lot in common. Both are frequently, though inaccurately, described as “ultra-conservative”. What would Dominic Perrottet say…
by PAUL COLLITS – ASK a millennial for a definition of “statesman” and you probably won’t get very far. This could be for one or more of three reasons. One, there haven’t been any statesmen since millennials were children, so they don’t…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE upon a time Davos was a village in the Swiss Alps, known for not much at all. Suddenly it was famous. It is interesting how under-the-radar Swiss towns suddenly become famous for hosting nefarious groups having confabs….
by PAUL COLLITS – MANY of today’s readers may not know who John Hyde is. Certainly, very few under forty would have heard of him. John Hyde is a retired Western Australian farmer, writer, think-tank commissar and former MP who, in the…
