The Christian churches, their beliefs, their sacred practices and their pastors are under attack. From new atheists, secularists, progressives - and from the state itself. The state's assumption of extraordinary and dictatorial powers during the year of Covid has not been without impact on the Church. The Covid state has imposed all sorts of restrictions on the faithful. Caesar has taken more than his due.
Losing Trump was just like losing Abbott. Two feisty conviction politicians with much in common have been lost to the West. Their many enemies are grinning. We will miss them both. (A version of this article appears in the 6 February 2021 edition of The Spectator Australia).
The great Margaret Court is under attack. Again. For being a Christian with mainstream Christian beliefs, about marriage. Our society stands at the brink, when citizens are vilified for having mainstream beliefs.
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year China's long-term strategies for global domination and short-term tactics to achieve it paid off big time. And they used a virus to do it.
The journalists Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon are outstanding practitioners of their craft. They have written a must-read, cracking story of Australia's worst ever legal fiasco. Naturally, it involves Victoria Police.
Finally, a Decentralisation Policy That Might Work
Written by Paul Collits
Governments in Australia and elsewhere have longed for decentralisation, and pursued it relentlessly. It never worked. Could Covid madness be the answer?
The Sydney cricket test has begun. Virtually without a crowd. Those there are all wearing masks, because they are compulsory in Sydney. Covid summer madness has hit the Premier State, where a mere two Covid deaths have occurred since 1 September 2020.
