As Russian dissident and The Gulag Archipelago author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through […]
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Black Lives Matter, but they don’t need us to tell them that.
June 7, 2020 
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Along with many Australians, I’m pretty annoyed about the BLM protests going ahead in this time of national crisis. While most of us have diligently stayed at home to avoid spreading the virus – including foregoing things that are very important to us, such as attending church or keeping our businesses alive – the tens […]
Continue readingWelcome to the Glasshouse, where even Tim Minchin is afraid.
June 24, 2019 Comments Off on Welcome to the Glasshouse, where even Tim Minchin is afraid.
The bible says ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone’. Starting things off with a bible quote is not very popular, I know. Just ask Disney, who removed any trace of Christianity from their latest film Tolkein, even though the author’s works, most notably Lord of the Rings, were heavily inspired by […]
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The Bowditch Pitch 
How the jester shines light on truth
Jesters: On the surface they exist simply to entertain, to poke fun at us and show us how silly we can be, but their added value lies in aiding society’s conscience, by illuminating the truth that may be right under our noses but which we’ve somehow missed or chosen to ignore.
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