Jim Twelves
Dr Jim Twelves has had more than 46 years' experience as an educator, mainly in high schools. His specialty has been Geography, Geology and Biology teaching; he was Head of Department in an independent day and boarding school in England.
Since his emigration to Australia, he has held Deputy Principal and Principalship roles in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. He studied at Melbourne University, gaining his Graduate Diploma in Educational Administration, Masters of Education and Doctor of Philosophy.
Articles by Jim Twelves:
20 July 2023
5.2 MINS
This is the finale of my exploration of Globalism and Nationalism. When I found this video of John Anderson interviewing Yoram Hazony, I could not have been happier! It is a tremendous capstone to what I would argue is one of the most important issues [...]
13 July 2023
3.1 MINS
Lyle Shelton takes readers on a rare behind-the-scenes tour of culture wars. “I Kid You Not”, is because the Left has gotten away with things most Australians would find incredible, if only they knew. Before #MeToo, Shelton fought the legalised sexual abuse of young women. [...]
6 July 2023
3.5 MINS
Jesus said: If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in Me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea. (Mark 9:42) Harsh words. Words, from the opening [...]
3 July 2023
4.1 MINS
How censorship has taken over our lives, and the threat it poses to our faith and humanity. Part 1: The Tower of Babel proposed that the current global agendas bear many parallels with the ways of the Babylonians as reported in Genesis. Part 2: Nationalism [...]
27 June 2023
7.5 MINS
Giorgia Meloni, PM, loves her county and wants to defend it with her party’s slogan -- God, County, Family! In this, my third piece on Globalism and Nationalism, I would like to examine Giorgia Meloni’s place on the world stage after becoming Italy’s first female [...]
21 June 2023
5.4 MINS
This is the second in my series on globalism and nationalism; Part 1 was called The Tower of Babel. There I began to unpack the globalist agenda. Today, I want to focus on nationalism and how it can morph into globalism, through the lens of [...]
16 June 2023
8.1 MINS
Synonyms for globalism include development, growth, and maturation, and multinational executives are routinely encouraged to have a global mindset. Synonyms for nationalism are often linked to negative things like bigotry, protectionism, and xenophobia. But they also carry positive connotations, such as patriotism and good citizenship, [...]
7 June 2023
2.4 MINS
The new documentary, The Great Awakening, asks us to imagine life as it used to be. In 1959, I was seven years old. It was a summer’s day. I lived with my family in Yorkshire, England. We had consumed our main meal, mid-day Sunday. But [...]
23 May 2023
2.2 MINS
The following Scripture was one of the God moments from the stage at the freedom rally, Saturday 20 May in the heart of Sydney: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will [...]
22 May 2023
3.7 MINS
My third update since the derailment on 3 February 2023, and the subsequent controlled burn of five rail cars containing vinyl chloride. See the previous articles on 1 March and 5 April. Let’s start with a quote from an East Palestine resident Tracy Hager. This is [...]
8 May 2023
7.6 MINS
All of us face trials and hardships. Some come at us as shipwrecks out of the blue! How do we manage these trials? Do they crush us or make us stronger? Recently, I experienced one of these devastating challenges, unpredictable and gut-wrenching. I would describe [...]
1 May 2023
4.2 MINS
Dr Jordan B Peterson and John Anderson discuss the impressive erasure of Australia’s federal debt during Anderson’s employment as Deputy Prime Minister. They also go into the importance of economic reform, the regression in progress seen through the lens of climate change, the spirit of [...]
28 April 2023
1.8 MINS
I have a great deal of respect for Robert F Kennedy Jr, but who would have thought I would be applauding a Democrat run for the Presidency of the United States! Robert F Kennedy Jr. Announces His Bid for Presidency “In my presidency, I will [...]
17 April 2023
2.6 MINS
Anderson is joined by Professor John Gray, probably the world's foremost political philosopher. They discuss the state of the world in May 2022. Russia, Ukraine, Europe, China, America; Putin, Macron, Biden. His knowledge of history is deep and wide and so his perspective on current [...]
10 April 2023
2.8 MINS
In this conversation, John Anderson travels to Portland, Oregon to interview Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, co-authors of Them Before Us (2021), a book that argues for a revolution in how we think about the family, and a re-focus on the needs of children above [...]
6 April 2023
3.1 MINS
Douglas Wilson is the pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, USA and founder of The Association of Classical Christian Schools in North America. His discussion with John ranged far and wide but focussed on the current division in American society and what might be the [...]
5 April 2023
2.5 MINS
A month ago, I commented on Erin Brockovich’s response to the environmental disaster caused by a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, USA. Today I want to bring the people of East Palestine back into our minds and hearts as their pain is not going [...]
29 March 2023
10.6 MINS
Welcome to part 3 of this three-part essay on media bias. In part 1 we traced the innovations of media technology and concluded that while the technology can’t be biased the operators always are and always have been. In part 2 we considered how we [...]
14 March 2023
5.1 MINS
This is the last of a three-part series inspired by the novel Armageddon by Leon Uris (1963). (Read parts one and two here.) A remarkable, fictional story based on actual history, from the American perspective, of the end of WWII in Germany with a particular [...]
10 March 2023
8 MINS
This is the second of a three-part series inspired by the novel Armageddon by Leon Uris (1963). (Read part one here.) A remarkable, fictional story based on actual history, from the American perspective, of the end of World War II in Germany, with particular focus [...]





