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Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch, also known as Hal G. P. Colebatch and Hal Colebatch (born 1945) is an Australian author, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer.

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The Neopagan Temptation

In this book Professor Philip G. Davis, a Canadian academic, proves with compelling scholarship that the present-day "goddess" cults have no detectable linkage with any ancient pagan beliefs. Apart from being anti-Christian anyway, they have no ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Pope John Paul II,  Matthew Fox,  Harvard University,  Madonna

The Pope and the Astronauts

Pope Paul's Vl Pontificate has faded from popular memory, completely overshadowed by that of John Paul II. However it is worth remembering at this time that in 1969 he unequivocally blessed and hailed the Apollo Moon-landing, upholding the Vatican's ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Roman Catholic Church

Epic Chesterton

While some scholars have begun meeting at Oxford to discuss the cause of his eventual sainthood, G. K. Chesterton is remembered largely today by the reading public as the creator of the Father Brown detective stories, in which a humble Catholic ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: G. K. Chesterton

Westminster Implodes

In more than a decade of observing and writing about Britain's society and culture, I have never encountered anything comparable to the rage and fury which has followed the revelation that large numbers of Members of Parliament of various parties ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  20 May 2009
Related Topics: Michael Martin,  House of Commons,  Tony Blair,  Melanie Phillips,  Shahid Malik

Socialized Medicine on Display

Latest news in the exciting saga of Britain's socialized medicine is that a nurse, Margaret Haywood, aged 58, has been struck off for the crime of exposing neglect and mistreatment of elderly patients at the Royal Sussex Hospital on a television ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: David Cameron,  UK Conservative Party,  Ann Keen,  National Health Service,  Nigel Evans

Overcome by Heat

Climate change alarmism has moved firmly into the realms of science-fiction with a piece in the Los Angeles Times claiming that Australia is being ravaged by "drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness." The ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  13 Apr 2009

An Australian Lesson

I don't suppose many Americans know this, but they ought to: Australia recovered from the Great Depression much more quickly than did America by doing the opposite of what America is doing today. This was despite the fact that relative to America it ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  16 Mar 2009

Britain's Anti-Christian Kulturkampf

Things seem to be moving faster in Britain, and not in a nice direction. In the area of religion, here are five incidents reported in the course of barely a week. A foster mother has been struck off by a council after a teenage Muslim girl in her ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  20 Feb 2009
Related Topics: National Health Service

The Trial of Tony Blair

First, a couple of credentials: I am immodest enough to think that few people have a longer record than I of attacking former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government. My book Blair's Britain was begun in Blair's salad days a few weeks ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Tony Blair,  New Zealand Labour Party,  Saddam Hussein,  House of Lords,  Gordon Brown

Those Odd Atheist Bus-Slogans

To most believers that is baffling because the existence of God is the main reason why we do enjoy our lives and expect to go on enjoying life, in a different form, for all eternity, but let us lay that aside and concentrate on other ...

From HAL G.P. COLEBATCH, American Spectator,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Richard Dawkins,  Ann Widdecombe,  Damien Hirst,  Tracey Emin,  Harold Pinter

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