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
As in the Netherlands, where the statistics all point upwards, the major risks of euthanasia for New Zealanders are a loss of respect for life, misuse and ‘scope creep’. Our nation records very high levels of depression, refusing to accept any connection with marijuana use – which is (ironically, or not,
On election day, Saturday 19 September, voters will take part in a referendum on the End of Life Choice Act 2019. This referendum, which will be binding on the government, is likely to make euthanasia and assisted suicide legal in New Zealand. Pro-euthanasia campaigners argue that the issue is to
Jacinda Ardern – ‘contemporary comrade’, speaker in platitudes, and recipient of a degree in communications from Waikato University under Marx and Nietzsche – views kindness as nothing more than a ‘curative agent’. In her ‘Economics of Kindness’ statement piece on the government website, she says that “her country hopes to … lead the
Acts of the Apostles chapter 5 documents an early problem with ‘communalism’. When transferring their possessions into common ownership, Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold their land but secretly held back a portion of the proceeds for themselves. As a result, they were struck dead in the presence of the
Kindness, in moral philosophy, is a behaviour marked by the ethical characteristics of concern and consideration for others. Aristotle, in Book II of Rhetoric, defines kindness as: “helpfulness towards someone in need, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but for that of the
As one would probably expect, living as we do in New Zealand’s hyper-sensitive, left-wing heliosphere, negative media commentary around Judith Collins’s election to the leadership of the National Party began almost immediately. The efforts to discredit her have been varied, with some media channels seeking to downplay or
New Zealand’s borders remain closed to the world, with returning residents forced into managed isolation facilities. The government’s 26 temporary quarantine facilities – which are essentially commandeered hotels – have the capacity to accommodate 6,849 people. They are almost full. Several residents are reported to have behaved badly. Some
John Key’s early legacy to the ethnic mix trammelling up and down Auckland’s Queen Street, and clearly part of the National Party’s liberal globalist agenda, was the influx to New Zealand, from about 2010 onwards, of mainland Chinese. National’s closeness to the Chinese Communist Party shouldn’
We have passed through the COVID Looking Glass and entered a strange new reality, according to Sherelle Jacobs in The Telegraph. While New Zealand reclines in splendid isolation, the rest of the world is dealing with ‘second wave hysteria’. Not surprisingly, vaccines remain elusive and the race is on to
Some people, it seems, are smarting from ‘white guilt’ and looking ahead in hope – of course through pink-lensed spectacles – to a chardonnay-infused, post-colonial future. One such anonymous person, considerably younger than me I must admit, wrote an open letter to his or her old private school via The Telegraph recently
The svengalis at Auckland Council clearly loathe the mundane and routine nature of their ‘core business’. To their employers – the public – this core business, regrettably, is where our interests lie: the maintenance of public infrastructure, the collection of rubbish, the cutting of grass and ensuring that trains run on time.
The take-over is a fait accompli. The civil service walks in a left-wing goose-step. Our universities are left-wing. Our teachers are too, as is our education system. Our corporates toe the line. Our parliamentarians, generally speaking, are, and our legal system sways to the left in a stiff prevailing wind.
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern policing. His Metropolitan Police Act received royal assent in 1829, and the Metropolitan Police Service in London was formed in September of that year. The first modern and professional Police force in the world, its founding was
There are a lot of compelling arguments against feminism. The economic reality is that a professional family in the 1950s could survive on one professional salary and a working-class family on a single worker’s wages. In driving up the labour supply, and suppressing wages, the feminist revolution has ensured
Writing in Insight Politics this week about ‘radical conservatives’ and ‘liberal conservatives’, Chris Trotter obfuscated the nature of the debate the National Party should be having but isn’t. The right side of politics, such as it currently is, has never comprised the two illusory groups which Trotter mentions. The
