Retired, writer. author : ‘Marriage, The Christian Way’ (2025).
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Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧.
You will recall that in September the High Court refused Sall Grover @salltweets special leave to appeal in the landmark Giggle for Girls v Roxanne Tickle case.
A case of considerable importance to Sal, to biological women in Australia concerned about sex-based rights, & to the future interpretation of the Sex Discrimination Act in this country.
However, today the High Court granted Pauline Hanson special leave to appeal a racial discrimination ruling arising from her long-running dispute with Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi.
The dispute began following Queen Elizabeth II’s death, when Faruqi made comments about the monarchy & British colonialism that I considered appalling. Hanson responded by telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan.”
Hanson’s appeal raises constitutional questions about the Commonwealth’s legislative powers & the implied freedom of political communication.
I’m pleased Hanson has been granted the opportunity to have those questions heard by the High Court.
But I cannot help reflecting on the contrast.
Both cases raise significant questions about the interpretation & application of Australia’s discrimination laws, albeit on very different legal grounds.
𝐈𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐱-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 & 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
And I remain deeply disappointed that the High Court declined to hear her appeal particularly so given Hanson’s ruling.
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
This is for all you good folks who think that socialism is a brilliant plan.
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Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
BREAKING: One Nations, Warren Pickering has slammed Victoria Police for dismissing the attack on the One Nation volunteer as “not politically motivated”
Warren Pickering was pulling no punches.
This was political violence. Full stop.
A 60 year old One Nation volunteer was bashed outside his own home in Torquay after people ripped up and stomped on the campaign signs on his property.
He went out to defend them and was set upon with a blunt weapon. He is still in hospital with serious head and facial injuries, receiving blood transfusions, and facing maxillofacial surgery.
His work vehicle was also smashed.
Victoria Police say they are not treating it as politically motivated.
The facts say otherwise.
Campaign materials targeted, a man on his own property defending them beaten bloody. That is political violence by any reasonable definition.
Pickering is correct to call it what it is.
The same week, One Nation candidate Nadia Ticehurst’s poster was defaced with “Nazi” and “racist.”
This is the climate being created: harass, vandalise, intimidate, and when someone pushes back, bash them.
Then pretend it has nothing to do with politics.
Disagree with One Nation all you like. Vote against them. But attacking a man on his own property for displaying signs is not “random”
It is political intimidation.
Australians should be able to put up corflutes and defend their property without ending up in hospital.
KJ Seumalu has been charged and remanded. The 14 year old was cautioned.
The pattern is clear. This needs to stop.
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Academics at a London university are being made to take a test they can only pass by professing the “correct” opinions.
Compelled speech is a hallmark of authoritarianism and must always be resisted.
My latest post is now up! Read here: andrewdoyle.org/p/the-tyrann…
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Very proud to be part of the documentary “Who Decides?”
But I must say: the heart & soul of the film is a woman named Tess Hackett, who lost her daughter to transgender ideology. Hers is one of the most heartbreaking stories I have heard in this madness and a must listen. I’d go through the stupidest court case of all time 1000 times rather than go through losing a child to this evil ideology. 💔
Live stream of the film right now:
whodecidesfilm.com/
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Trans children are not real.
Trans adults are not real.
Transgenderism is an ideological belief directly grounded in Postmodernism and Marxist Theory.
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Gratuliere den US-Demokraten zu ihrem Wahlsieg - und nutze, mit @KoeppelRoger die Gelegenheit, um Donald Trump für alles zu danken, was er richtig gemacht hat (bei all seinen hinlänglich bekannten Fehlern, für die er soeben bestraft wurde) aus meiner südamerikanischen Perspektive:
- Der Coup gegen den Tyrannen Maduro
- Kampf gegen den Narco-Terror in Lateinamerika (Shield of the Americas)
- Kampf gegen Justiz-Terror in Brasilien und die Tyrannei auf Kuba
- Kontrolle der Massenmigration und Sicherung der Grenzen (es geht, wenn man nur will)
- Ernennung von Staatssekretär Marco Rubio (hoffentlich der nächste US-Präsident)
- Verhinderung einer iranischen Atombombe
- Unterstützung Israels im Kampf gegen den Terror von Hamas, Hizbullah & Co
- Kampf gegen Antisemitismus, Gender- und Rassendiskriminierung an Unis
- Absage an DEI und den ganzen Woke-Trash
- Redimensionierung der UNO auf ihren ursprünglichen Zweck
- Kein Geld mehr für WHO und USAID
- Stopp dem Klima- und Windmühlen-Wahn
- Kampfansage an die Bürokratie
- Förderung der Kernenergie
- Eine realistische Haltung gegenüber Diktaturen in China und Russland
- Weckruf an die dekadenten Europäer (wohl zu spät, aber immerhin)
- Und nicht zuletzt hat Trump die Welt vor Sleepy Joe und Kamala Hahaha bewahrt (allein dafür verdient er eine Medaille).
Immerhin, ist doch Allerhand. Habe keine Zweifel, dass Trump diesen verdienstvollen Kampf fortsetzt und dass ihn der Widerstand von links doppelt beflügelt – fürchte lediglich, dass er auch auf seinen Fehlern (insbesondere die Zollpolitik, das Schönreden von Misserfolgen, das Beleidigen von unterlegenen Gegnern und das unausstehliche Eigenlob) beharrend wird. Aber in zwei Jahren, das ist das schöne an einer lebendigen Demokratie, sind wieder Wahlen in den USA, werden die Karten neu gemischt, kann alles wieder ganz anders aussehen, alle Optionen sind offen.
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS PERSISTENTLY FAVOURS WOMEN
An Australian Government experiment uncovered something that challenges the stale conventional narratives about discrimination...
In 2017, the Behavioural Economics Team of Australia (BETA) published a randomised controlled trial involving over 2,100 public servants across 14 agencies.
The findings were striking:
🔹 Identifiable female applicants were 2.9% more likely to be shortlisted than anonymised applicants.
🔹 Identifiable male applicants were 3.2% less likely to be shortlisted.
🔹 Removing identifying information reduced the advantage enjoyed by female applicants.
The researchers concluded that discrimination favoured women and disadvantaged men.
This raises uncomfortable questions about three interconnected phenomena:
1. Gamma Bias: The tendency to magnify female disadvantages and male wrongdoing while minimising male disadvantages and female wrongdoing.
2. Gynocentrism: The tendency to prioritise women's experiences, interests and welfare over equivalent concerns affecting men.
3. Unconscious Bias: Automatic assumptions that favour women while disadvantaging equally qualified men.
Broader psychological research also identifies greater protective concern for women, often called the women-are-wonderful effect or male disposability.
These findings deserve attention alongside disparities in male suicide, educational attainment, homelessness and workplace fatalities.
Importantly, BETA examined hypothetical executive shortlisting, not every workplace or recruitment stage. Its findings don't establish universal discrimination.
Nevertheless, gender equality must mean fairness for BOTH sexes.
We can't credibly oppose some forms of discrimination against women while completely ignoring evidence of discrimination against men.
The solution isn't preferential treatment for either sex. It's consistent standards, genuine meritocracy, compassion and evidence-based policy.
Equality requires recognising bias wherever it exists...
#GenderEqualityForMen #GammaBias #Gynocentrism #MensEqualityMonth
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Inside every well meaning Anglo liberal is a naive belief that everyone is just like them, deep down, with an appreciation of quaint religions, cosmpolitan food & their currently trans child etc ... immigration however bring others' 'vibrant' cultures & histories into your home
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
When you switch off a flashlight, where does the beam go?
It does not stop. The light that already left keeps traveling at 186,282 miles per second until something absorbs it.
Out in space, almost nothing absorbs light. On a dark night, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with your own eyes. The light traveled through 2.5 million light years of space. No engine pushed it along. No fuel fed it.
Sound is different. It needs air to travel through, and it fades as it spreads out. A ripple needs water, and it dies away. Light needs no material at all.
How can that be? In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell showed that a changing electric field creates a magnetic field, and a changing magnetic field creates an electric field. Each one produces the other, over and over, so the wave carries itself through empty space.
In my book I wrote: "Once a light beam is let loose in the vacuum of space, it will travel forever with no additional energy input."
In the same passage I wrote about God, who "requires no additional or outside energy source to exist. God persists forever without change."
Light needs nothing from outside to keep going. Scripture says God needs nothing from anyone: "And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else." Acts 17:25
This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
The Digital Duty of Care risks censoring everyone.
Why are the Greens voting to silence Senator Faruqi?
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
What if last night was the best thing that could have happened to us?
I know how that sounds. Democrats just took the House and the Senate. Texas went blue. Everyone on our side is depressed this morning. But step back and look at the longer game, because I think we might be living through the beginning of a renaissance.
History has a pattern. When a party wins big, it confuses a protest vote with a mandate. And that's exactly where it starts making mistakes.
1994: Republicans sweep Congress. They overplay their hand, shut down the government, and hand Clinton a comfortable reelection two years later. 1998: they push impeachment against public opinion and lose seats in a midterm they should have won. Victory breeds arrogance. Arrogance breeds overreach. Overreach breeds backlash.
Now look at what Democrats are walking into. They control Congress, but not the White House. They can't really govern. They can block, investigate, subpoena, and posture. For two years, their entire identity will be opposition. Endless hearings. Impeachment fantasies. Shutdown brinkmanship. Purity tests from their activist wing, emboldened by a win they'll believe was ideological when it was mostly a midterm reflex.
And every one of those moves will be on full display, in front of voters who just gave them a chance and will expect results.
That's the setup for 2028. Not a narrow win. A clean one. White House, House, Senate. Full power, with a clear mandate and two years of Democratic overreach as the backdrop.
And this time, full power has to mean something different. Not just holding office. Building.
What I believe we need is a techno-republic. A state that runs like the best companies do: fast, measurable, accountable. Where public services are rebuilt from first principles with the best technology available. Where talent and merit matter more than credentials and connections. Where we stop managing decline and start building again: energy, industry, infrastructure, AI, space.
Because the stakes are civilizational. The West has spent decades losing confidence in itself. Its institutions hollowed out, its elites ashamed of its own history, its universities captured by an alliance between the radical left and political Islamism that sees Western values as something to dismantle rather than defend. Free speech, secularism, equality before the law, the idea that a civilization has the right to exist and to defend itself. None of that survives on autopilot.
A techno-republic is how we rebuild that foundation. Not through nostalgia, but through competence. Prove that a free, confident, technologically ambitious West works better than any alternative, and the debate is over.
So yes, last night hurt. But maybe this is the detour that gets us there faster. Let them win this round. Let them show the country who they really are. And be ready.
The renaissance won't come from comfort. It'll come from the moment we stopped being comfortable.
Today, I'm sad. For Texas, for this blue wave. But if Elon taught us anything, it's that losing a round means nothing. Here's why I'm not worried.
Texas sending a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in decades. The Senate and the House flipping. No point lying to ourselves: this is a real defeat.
But a defeat is not the end. They won a battle. We haven't lost the war.
Politics moves in cycles. Midterms almost always punish the party in power. What matters isn't one election night, it's the trajectory over ten, twenty, thirty years.
So look at the situation as it is. No denial, no panic. Understand what didn't work, what needs to change, and move forward.
The only real danger today isn't the result. It's losing your optimism. Discouragement does more damage than any electoral loss ever could.
Look at Elon. Every time the world declared him finished, he came back stronger. Rockets exploded, companies nearly went under, everyone bet against him. I have zero doubt he's the one who wins in the end.
As Corneille wrote: "To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." If victory were easy, it wouldn't mean anything.
Keep your spirits up. Keep playing. Keep fighting on every front: ideas, culture, tech, the ground game.
Stay focused on victory. It won't come overnight. It will take time to build. But it will last, and it will be beautiful.
We get back up. We keep going.
If this is going to happen, writs for reparations should be served to Algeria and others for the 1 million plus white Europeans snatched for slaves centuries ago, or other Africans for their slaving.
Of an estimated 35 million Africans trafficked into slavery across the Atlantic, Sahara and Indian Ocean, the British share was about 9 per cent.
Britain was also the first major power to abolish both slave-trading and slavery permanently. It then led the world in suppressing them, spending an estimated £90 billion in today’s money combating the transatlantic trade alone between 1806 and 1867.
Yet King Charles will arrive in Antigua this week facing demands that Britain pay reparations for its historic involvement in slavery.
To single out the British, of all peoples, is outrageously unfair. The King should acknowledge the evils of the past while urging the Commonwealth to confront slavery in the present.
Read my thoughts at The Biggar Picture: nigelbiggar.co.uk/p/king-cha…
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
2/3….
The 5 Albo Economic Sins that need to be Reversed:
1. Massive unfunded Commonwealth spending driving inflation
2. Empowering trade union interference in workplaces
3. Overspending on renewables draining national productivity
4. A total absence of competition and …
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Tasmania’s conversion practices bill is better, but serious problems remain.
The definition is still broad and unclear.
Protections for pastoral care are incomplete.
And a conversion practice directed at a child is still treated as “child abuse” for civil claims, even where no injury is proved.
The bill now goes to the Legislative Council. Freedom for Faith will keep working to fix it.
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Language itself proves Jews come from Judea, where they spoke Hebrew.
After the Romans destroyed Jewish rule and expelled or drove out large numbers of them, Jews did not abandon the language of Judea. They continued speaking Hebrew (and Aramaic) as the language of prayer and study. Everywhere they settled, that language fused with the local speech and created distinct Jewish languages written in Hebrew letters and seeded with Hebrew words.
Yiddish is one of them. Jews migrated into Italy and France before settling in the Rhineland, where Ashkenazi communities originated and had their language mix with Middle High German. Pure Hebrew and Aramaic remained the language of prayer and insult. Then, as Jews moved eastward under pressure of expulsions, massacres, and persecution, another form of Yiddish evolved that incorporated Slavic elements.
The same pattern appears in Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and the rest. Each is a local language with a continuous Hebrew substrate from Judea. That unbroken chain, from the language of ancient Judea outward through every major diaspora community, is direct linguistic evidence of Jewish origin and continuity.
It also makes the Khazar theory untenable. A population of Turkic converts would not have preserved the Hebrew script, the sacred vocabulary, and the same fusion pattern across unrelated regions.
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Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
The police keep a written rule for what to do with the family of a murdered child, the beats of which it looks like the Nowak family have been going through for the past 11 months.
It comes from the National Police Chiefs' Council, which sets practice for every force in England and Wales. "The primary purpose of a Family Liaison Officer (FLO) is that of an investigator," it reads. "Their role is to gather evidence and information from the family." Families are to be kept informed "in accordance with the needs of the investigation". And the role, it adds, "may also be critical in maintaining the reputation of the police service."
The Nowaks' account matches it line by line. Hours after they learned Henry was dead, police asked them about his political views and their own - grist for the statement they intended to put out the next day.
His father, driving home from identifying his son's body, took a call asking him to approve a press release that cast Henry as the aggressor in the encounter between himself and his murderer. Then came the story of the night, which changed each time they heard it: officers gave first aid at once; officers detained everyone; officers detained only Henry; officers handcuffed him; officers arrested him.
"The story was evolving every time we had an interaction," Mark Nowak has said.
'Kindness' is in the official guidance given in the handbook, just as it's in the handbooks of every government and HR department around the world which have become hotbeds of repressed opinion and total intellectual intolerance over the past six or so years.
It should be a crime - with a penalty weight to match the moral outrage of the thing - carrying a minimum term in prison, for any public official to lean on a victim's family over what they say in public about the crime. At Progress, we'd levy this, and we'd give the Victims' Commissioner the powers of a statutory inquiry to investigate every such complaint, and put body-camera footage of every arrest on a national register within 24 hours.
Nowhere to hide from bad behaviour - for anyone.
Henry's father learned how his son died from the footage, played to him in a side room at Southampton Crown Court on the first day of the trial. He watched, like we all watched, exactly what happened, exactly what those officers did.
We may see a form of negligence costing a young man his life. But every one of them was, to a greater extent, doing their job. Doing exactly what they were told. That, in this case, is - fatally - the point.
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
“Why can’t they just go on YouTube and watch the news?”: Edelman J today. Well if they did that tonight they would see a rather impressive 16yo representative of the Digital Freedom Project explain the difference between participating in a discussion or just watching
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Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
The British Empire was the greatest work of human civilisation this world has ever seen. It outlawed the slave trade and then hunted it to extinction across every ocean on earth. It put the rule of law on six continents. It built the railway, the telegraph, the modern world. And when it left, India, Canada, Australia and fifty more kept the lot. That is not conquest. That is inheritance.
A quarter of the land on earth. A quarter of the people. Run from one wet island. Now ask what it did with that reach. Not what it took. What it built.
It built the law. Around a third of the world's people live under legal systems descended from English common law. The presumption of innocence. Trial by jury. A judge who can rule against the government and keep his job.
It built the machine age. The first intercity railway. The cable that joined Europe and America. By 1902 a telegraph ring circled the entire world, landing only on British soil.
It built the knowledge. Newton. Darwin. Faraday. Turing. Berners-Lee. The machine you are reading this on is, from the physics up, a British invention with foreign parts.
And it built a war on the slave trade. No great power had ever made war on the trade — until Britain did. Sixty years. Around 1,600 ships seized. Around 150,000 Africans freed. Around 2,000 British sailors dead doing it.
Then the thing that proves the case. Every empire before it ended in fire. This one chose to go — and the nations it freed kept the lot. The courts. The parliaments. The language. Then they formed a club with the country that had ruled them. Fifty-six members. Four of them were never British at all. Former French and Portuguese colonies asked to join.
Nobody applies to join the empire of a tyrant.
Was it perfect? No empire is. Fine. Now name the empire that did better. Name the one that bled for sixty years to end the slave trade. Name the one whose former subjects kept its courts. Name the one that packed up and went home.
There is one.
Nobody keeps the chains of a master. They keep the gifts of a builder. Fifty-six nations kept them. That is the verdict — and it was not ours. It was theirs.
Others apologise for our history. I tell it — properly, from the record, without the guilt. If that's what you want more of, stand with me: thestoicenglish.com/guardian…
#history #britishempire
Ralph G. Bowles retweeted
Friedrich Engels, the trust-fund kid who spent forty years bankrolling the man who called capitalism exploitation. Ironic.
Engels inherited co-ownership of Ermen & Engels, a Manchester cotton mill, in 1864. He worked there as a partner, managed workers, collected profits, and wired money to Marx in London for decades. Marx, meanwhile, wrote about the immiseration of the proletariat from rented rooms his friend's textile workers paid for. Marx fathered a child with his unpaid housekeeper, Helene Demuth, denied paternity, and let Engels take the blame publicly for years. Engels obliged. The man was a doormat with a trust fund.
Marx himself produced almost nothing marketable. "Das Kapital" Volume One appeared in 1867; he never finished Volumes Two and Three. Engels assembled them from Marx's notes after his death in 1883. The great theorist of historical inevitability couldn't finish his own book.
Two men, one the son of a factory owner and the other a chronic debtor who borrowed from his own mother, invented a theory that claimed capital accumulation is theft. Engels accumulated capital. Marx stole from everyone around him, privately and personally, before proposing to do it systematically at gunpoint through the state.
Every currency debased, every factory nationalized, every famine engineered under regimes waving their banner traces back to two comfortable Europeans who never once went hungry because prices rose, stood in a breadline, or dug a mass grave for dissidents.
