White, male, Christian, middle-class, gainfully employed and married, Edward Persimmon is going nowhere fast on the left’s Pyramid of Victimhood. He attends a traditional church. Persimmon's interests
Aside from better haircuts, better-made suits, and not being mistaken for a lesbian, Prime Minister John Key was uncannily similar to Helen Clark. Key, in fact, continued the entente cordiale between Labour and National which had been established by clandestine socialist Jim Bolger, happily packing Clark off to the UN
Progressive politics embodies the idea of movement, and we have had a large helping recently. But which way are we moving? Is it upwards or downwards, forwards or back? Attributed in the Regency period – that pinnacle of British, if not of global civilisation – to Alexander Fraser Tytler, is the observation
the play’s the thing Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2 Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream Julius Caesar, Act 2 Scene 1 The term ‘method acting’ encompasses a range of training and rehearsal techniques
New Zealanders are dependent on and also obsessional about globalism. This is a bow with two particular strings, the first of which is international trade. What ‘international trade’ really entails is sourcing and importing vast quantities of cheaply produced shoddy plastic goods from the People’s Republic of China in
Professor Mark Woolhouse, who is Chair of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the UK’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, well understands ‘interconnectivity’ and globalised population modelling. Writing in The Telegraph this week, he says that we must all now follow the
TV One, Tuesday 22 September, 7 PM A great many urban leftists are wealthy and vote for socialist parties as a kind of penitence. One such leftist took a brief pause recently from the administration of her family-owned businesses and trust accounts to ask what would have to happen for
I keep returning to the SARS-CoV-2 situation as one which is in equal parts astonishing and appalling, and also because we seem to have sleep-walked into the biggest singular threat to democracy so far this century without anyone realising it. We are in the grip of a mass neurosis: seeded
It is somewhat ironic that our Prime Minister, in light of her tendency to censorship and adherence to the ‘social justice’ precepts of the Blairite ‘third way’, was required last week to publish a precis of Brenton Tarrant’s ‘manifesto’ in order to designate him a Terrorist Entity in his
I was recently struck by a young graduate who told me that in all her years at school and at university, where she gained a Master’s degree, no less, she had never been introduced to the subject known to slightly older folk as History. Her revelation was in response
I use public transport. I won’t bore you with the details as I am not a Green Party supporter or a pink-haired urban liberal harbouring a contagious social agenda – which is, in fact, the same thing. There are not that many pink-haired urban liberals on public transport. They tend
New Zealand won the Lockdown World Cup at its inaugural event, crushing all opposition. So successful were we, the ‘team of five million’, that we find ourselves, post-match, confined to the locker room, still in our briefs, and unable to progress with the bigger game called Life. The captain has
Another way in which we know that ‘moderate’ and ‘conservative’ Jacinda Ardern is really a figure of the hard left is her disregard for the rule of law in her handling of the COVID ‘crisis’. It doesn’t seem to have concerned her that the first lockdown had no basis
The second method by which the socialists achieve their aims is by packaging their leaders as ‘moderate’. The final destination for the left, its proper raison d’être if you will, is that of Trotsky and Lenin. But the Bolsheviks didn’t win elections. Although the result of our last
As you are no doubt aware, moderately serious seasonal influenza was this year successfully rebranded as COVID-19. The world has been enthralled by it ever since. The first New Zealand lockdown (25 March to 13 May) was a seriously successful event for the socialist government. Not only was it widely
It will be a more close-run thing than most people imagine, but Labour is likely to retain control of parliament after the election and secure a second term. It’s difficult to say they will ‘win’ given the vagaries of the nonsense MMP system, and what happened last time at
It was said that the New Zealand public won’t accept another lockdown, and here we are with Auckland back in lockdown. As night follows day, other regions will revert to curfew too. Like a case of Stockholm Syndrome, where the abused bond with their abusers, we the people never
