Politics (77)
The current penchant that governments and many citizens have for "Covidocracy" looks like becoming permanent. This is despite the initial promise of the silver bullet vaccine. Those who, quite legitimately, question the efficacy of the jab, are prone to made pariahs. Rather, they should be lauded as the rational ones among us, and thanked for pointing out the massive contradictions of vaccine politics.
A few recent indications suggest that Australians might be fighting back. Finally.
Around a year ago, Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with late stage lung cancer. He has now passed away. Like the also recently departed Sir Roger Scruton, Rush was a conservative titan. He also revolutionised American media. I penned this article - unpublished until now - i early 2020.
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 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 story of the US election can be told as a tale of four cities. As Dickens might have put it, it may just be the worst of times.
Does the left now despise the working class? A British Labour dissident thinks so, and has written a book about it. And he wants to change his Party. In Australia, an ALP politician may this week have called time on the Labor woke-ocracy as well.
The Gulag Archipelago is coming to a Western democracy near you, very soon. Not content with closing down economies and societies, and suppressing freedom, governments and their fellow travellers are now coming for the dissidents.
Useful idiots are, well, useful. Uncle Joe Biden has plenty. What are they up to? And what will they deliver?
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Jacinda, Justin, Joe, Boris and ScMo - A Busted Flush for the Anglosphere?
Written by Paul Collits
The Anglosphere faces a crisis of leadership. The West is now ruled wall-to-wall by second rate ideologues and/or chancers, either determined to change the global order or powerless to prevent the revolution we now face.
The United States of America are broken. We knew that. But are they corrupt as well? There are many questions about this election that need some answers. Americans this week should be wearing black.
The False Promise of Local Government Amalgamations
Written by Paul Collits
The latest financial scandal in New South Wales concerns the disastrous attempt to merge local councils. It has cost taxpayers a billion dollars, for little gain.
The governments, including Australia's, that have jettisoned freedom and the economy to save us all from a largely limp virus, are banking on getting away with one more big lie to get them off the electoral hook. It is called a vaccine.
