With the onset of the so-called festive season, I fear that two of the more significant newspaper articles of recent times could easily have passed us by virtually unnoticed. Both appeared in the Australian.

What I suggest, at the start of a new year, is that placed together this pair of articles has great significance for the future of Australian life since both now implore us, for the good of all, to cease our overlong and largely delusory national obsession with Marxism and its ‘neo’ derivatives.