This Is the Gentle Tyranny
There’s a perfect word for this system, a system that reaches into every corner of your existence, from your speech to how you spend your private life, and justifies itself all as being ‘for your own good’.
Guest Post
From Groundbreaking Foundations to a Modern Crisis
Residents and engineers know the real cause is man-made neglect of infrastructure, yet this inconvenient truth is largely ignored.
Steady Work to Fix This Mess
We’re halfway out of the ditch Labour dug. Keep the faith. Back the coalition. One people, one flag and one bloody awesome country.
The Soldier Who Knew No Restraint
Bloody Sunday is a cautionary tale of unrestrained violence, reckless military conditioning and deliberate obfuscation. Families were left in limbo, history partially hidden and a soldier who knew no restraint – unhinged, sadistic, and lethal – became a symbol of institutional failure.
Eden Hore: From Battlefield to Runway
Through collecting and curating exquisite garments, Hore transformed his trauma into beauty.
How a Slogan Became a Silencer
To speak truth where it is forbidden is an act of moral service, not malice.
Prince Andrew: A Product of Privilege and a Pawn of Power
He is a man ruined by his own failings, yes, but also by the machinery of privilege that shaped him, protected him and ultimately discarded him when he became too embarrassing to save. In that sense, his tragedy is not just his own.
Trump, RFK Jr and the Unspoken Question
Many researchers, health professionals and journalists, dependent on pharmaceutical funding or institutional support, have every incentive to avoid pursuing or amplifying questions that could threaten their livelihoods.
Tikanga Blasphemy and Free Speech in NZ
New Zealand repealed its blasphemy law in 2019. Section 123 of the Crimes Act 1961 – “blasphemous libel” was formally removed by parliament. Yet here we are, 60 years later, watching an unelected regulatory body attempt to recreate the same offence through the back door.
What It’s Like to File a Complaint
Trying to communicate with a multi-headed te reo gabbling chook.
Have Some MPs Been Oikophobic?
Many might think it would seem at least naïve not to at least raise the question as to whether the damage consistently inflicted upon a formerly far more stable and happy country has been at least partly because of politicians who may possibly be oikophobic, prioritising their own personal agenda.
The Gene Tech Bill: Profit Over People
The implications are chilling: home gardeners saving seeds, small-scale farmers maintaining heritage breeds or families keeping backyard hens could find themselves in breach of new bioengineering compliance rules.
