Sommer Kapitan Auckland University of Technology “Kia ora, everyone. I’m standing against a blank wall in my house – because it’s the only view in my house that is not messy.” So begins a 2020 campaign message posted by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. She speaks directly into
Shaima Shamdeen yesmagazine.org “These women really represent their culture. They are the vessels that carry this culture forward.” A New York City restaurant does more than serve home cooking from around the world. It prepares each dish with the love that only a grandmother can provide. After losing his
Campbell Markham mercatornet.com Campbell Markham lives in Hobart, Tasmania, and has been a Presbyterian pastor for over 20 years. He is married to Amanda-Sue, with grownup children, and teaches a weekly online theology class. A Tasmanian man is being persecuted over his views on ‘conversion therapy. In June,
Shannon Roberts mercatornet.com Shannon Roberts is co-editor of MercatorNet’s blog on population issues, Demography is Destiny. While she has a background as a barrister, writing has been a life-long passion and she has contributed to a range of publications. She has regularly written on demographic issues
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a teacher, freelance writer, and the Features Editor of the Canberra Declaration. He contributes regularly at the Spectator Australia, Caldron Pool and The Good Sauce. He hosts his own blog ‘Cross + Culture’ at kurtmahlburg.blog With months of race riots continuing in the
Arthur The Style Council was a band formed in 1982 by ex-The Jam member Paul Weller. This is not about them. It is about the Wellington City Council more concerned with virtue signalling style and green ideology than doing its core job, which is infrastructure and running the city
Folks, have you ever seen our prime minister actually answer a question? I assume that these are the videos that Labour uses to train the PM. Open government Standard excuses The smoke screen If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
For hundreds of years, nursing has been a vocation for Christians who want to live their lives according to biblical principles, following the example of Jesus, by healing and comforting the ill. Christian nurses in New Zealand today face a stark choice: compromise your faith and beliefs or face professional
Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The Government’s objective of eliminating COVID-19 is at an end, due to advice from the WHO, challenges of the Auckland lockdown, and plummeting cases and deaths internationally. There were signals this week that elimination and lockdowns are over, as the Government moved to
Berend de Boer Overnight this sign appeared in Auckland Council playgrounds: It has the now common usual “warnings.” With the government’s new found duty to keep its citizens “safe” it’s an indignity we will have to suffer until we kick these people out of office I’m afraid.
Tho Bishop mises.org Last week we once again saw far too common sights of small businesses being burned to the ground and unarmed civilians being beat in the street. The epicentre this time was Kenosha, Wisconsin, where rioters and looters from around the area joined protesters in the city
Angela Renton The University of Queensland A recent demonstration video released by Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink might not look like much at first. In the video, a pig named Gertrude eats snacks from a person’s hand, while an accompanying computer screen displays blue lines that peak and trough,
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Cancel culture. Outrage. Twitter mob. Disinvited. Doxing. This is the world we now live in. One false move and you could be history. The mob could be unleashed and your family and workplace targeted. So what do you do? You shut up and make sure
Audi alteram partem (or audiatur et altera pars) is a Latin phrase meaning “listen to the other side”, or “let the other side be heard as well” The World-wide deaths attributed to COVID-19 up to date according to worldometers.info/coronavirus/ are 860,266. Out of a population
Eliora Much has been said recently about the hapless James Shaw, co-leader of the Green Party. He is publicly pleading for forgiveness. Shaw signed off on a $11.7 million deal for a private green school in Taranaki. He looked sheepish as he begged and beseeched green voters not
Timothy J. Lynch University of Melbourne In 1991, Donald Trump’s mother, Mary, was mugged on a New York street. As Trump’s niece recounts in her new book, the young assailant slammed Mary’s head into her Rolls Royce so hard, her brain haemorrhaged. This firsthand experience with violent
