You know, I’m not known as impatient sort of guy, but, dammit, I’m starting to wonder what’s happened to that global warming I was promised. Because, in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s decidedly nippy these days. Well, duh – it’s winter. Except it’s quite
We all know the New Zealand media have been bought and paid for by the Labour government with its so-called “Public Interest” Journalism Fund, but, jeez, do they have to make it so obvious? Hardly a day goes by that Kiwis aren’t inundated with the most ludicrous beat ups
It was only a few years ago that Britain dodged an anti-Semitic bullet by not electing the odious Jeremy Corbyn and his far-left, Jew-hating followers. But Australian PM Anthony Albanese, another far-leftist, was more than ready to pose for happy-snaps with his Jew-baiting British Labour counterpart. And, surprise, surprise, the
Some of the most riveting passages in William L Shirer’s classic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, are his eye-witness accounts of key events. One of the most extraordinary is his on-the-scene account of the Anschluss as it played out on the streets of Vienna, where
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Most of us are pretty fed up with the status quo government that has given us: * Inflation and recession after Ardern’s draconian Covid policies; * Hipkins’s appalling record of having to stand down a minister every eight weeks for unethical behaviour; * Increasing ram raids and crime; * Judges soft on
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I was asked by Paul Brennan to discuss the implosion within DemocracyNZ. Have a good listen, because these problems exist in almost all small parties. What I talk about is the over-reliance on what I call “hopium”, the rather addictive ability to suspend reality and cling to hope, because hopium
I normally avoid Hobart’s “Dark Mofo” winter festival like the plague. That’s because it’s ‘ooh, aren’t we edgy’ adolescent vibe is even more tediously bullshit than the average ‘writer’s festival’. For all their pretensions of ‘dangerous ideas’, these arts-nobblers circle-jerks almost always consist entirely of
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There are some very good reasons that I warn readers to “Always assume that ‘fact-checkers’ are trying to bullshit you.” The most important of which is the truth demonstrated time and again: that “fact-checkers” are in reality ‘narrative-confirmation machines’. To see the truth of that in action, just consider this
On Friday the Associate Justice Minister, Deborah Russell, announced that the Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon, had resigned from his position and that if he hadn’t resigned he would be sacked because of his undeclared conflicts of interest. It is a complete mess, with the Associate Minister having to
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Yesterday we all woke to the news that the government has introduced medical apartheid for real into the New Zealand health system. No longer is need the primary concern for clinicians assessing who gets operations; now ethnicity needs to be taken into account, with the system rewarding people on the
One of the dumbest claims in the farrago of dumbassity that was Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was the claim that sea levels were about to rise catastrophically. To really drive it home for gawping rubes, Gore hauled his bulky frame into a scissor lift, which, no doubt with
