Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners I’ve been fielding a large volume of email the last few days asking about what we’re hearing on the Royal Commission Report and what we’ve been doing in recent days. This article is to update you on both fronts.
Eliora This year started with a superb date, 2020. 20/20 vision and so on. How cool is that! Then the world changed as COVID-19 started to ‘plague’ humanity. Countries locked down. Borders were closed. Families and people were isolated from each other. Governments ran up eye watering debt
righttolife.org.uk An MP has urged the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to call on the Chinese Communist Party to end their population control measures, including forced abortions and sterilisation, of the Uyghur community in China. Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, in a debate in the House of Commons on
Ayanna Thompson Arizona State University Coen Heijes University of Groningen As Black Lives Matter protests and social uprisings spread across U.S. cities in the summer, the civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson wrote a personal letter to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte over an annual tradition that many
Rolf Norfolk mercatornet.com Rolf Norfolk is a former teacher and retired independent financial adviser. On November 7, 2020, the Sunday Express published an article by Patrick Basham, an American conservative, entitled: “Stalin said it’s not important who votes, but how they are counted.” The piece alleged “widespread ballot
righttolife.org.uk An elderly woman in Canada has been euthanised to avoid having to live through another COVID-19 lockdown. 90-year-old Nancy Russell ended her life by euthanasia last month in Toronto, Canada so that she did not have to endure another lockdown, despite the fact that
Daryl Sparkes mercatornet.com I’m a film-maker who became an archaeologist who became a film-maker who became an academic. I’ve had films screened at the Maleny film festival all the way to Cannes and everything in between. As well as a Senior Lecturer in Film Production
righttolife.org.uk A midwifery student, who faced suspension from her studies due to her involvement in the university pro-life society, has won an apology and payout from her university. Julia Rynkiewicz, 25, faced suspension from the University of Nottingham and a four-month-long fitness-to-practice investigation
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet In the logic of true believers, if he looks innocent, he must be guilty There’s a phenomenon in psychology called the “true believer syndrome”. The paradigm example is analysed in a 1956 psychology classic called When Prophecy Fails.
Freedom for Faith mercatornet.com The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 will have a terrible chilling effect on the provision of counselling and support for vulnerable people wrestling with their sexuality In the most aggressive action ever taken by an Australian government to attack freedom of religion,
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com With the onslaught of a very public discrediting battle in the media between the different COVID-19 vaccine pharmaceutical companies, I am reminded of my father’s expression of disdainful indifference for his children’s numerous arguments and fights (there were 13 of us
Chongyi Feng University of Technology Sydney As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated case. Zhao and other Chinese officials
Gerry Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater This strange expression dates all the way back to the 1500s. Believe it or not, people in the 16th century only bathed once a year and as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I famously said, she bathed twice a year whether
Barbara Kay mercatornet.com Barbara Kay studied English Literature – undergrad at U of Toronto and graduate studies at McGill. For many years she taught literature and composition part-time at various Quebec Cegeps. She was also… More by Barbara Kay A Canadian bill would ban ‘conversion therapy’ for gays, while
Arthur It just never stops. Climate con inspired nonsense is being used by the insurance industry to price gouge us even more after another ‘new research’ in the plethora of ‘new researches’ to which we are continually subjected. According to a Stuff article also appearing in its paper propaganda arm
Caitjan Gainty King’s College London Agnes Arnold-Forster University of Bristol Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high. There are many reasons to temper this optimism as there is a lot we
