It was one of those awkward moments, you go for a handshake, he goes for a fist bump, you quickly change your open hand into a fist as he switches to a handshake and palms your fist. Maybe if we just say ‘palm my fist’ from now on things will
SophiaPhobia I was dismayed to read in Stuff that Maori and Pasifika patients will be given priority on elective waiting lists at Wellington District Health Boards. Of course, I’d love for Maori and Pasifika people to achieve similar health outcomes as the population generally, but is this the way
Mark You have probably seen the ads on TV encouraging us to vote for cannabis reform “on our terms.” Putting aside the obvious question of where the money is coming from to pay for these very professionally produced ads and the airtime it runs on, I’d like to critique
I’ve just read the BFD article on the historian Scott Hamilton. There is a simple way to counter business destroying virtue signalers like Hamilton. I am sure this whole thing has nothing to do with the fact that Scott Hamilton has some books to sell. Details are in his
Peter Jackson Editor Northland Age A correspondent to the ‘Northern Advocate’ claimed last week that the enduring legacy of COVID-19 in New Zealand will be “the period of gratuitous authoritarianism it brought from the political left.” And he might well be right. This newspaper has no great criticism to
David Theobald Monday June 8th was the start of another week in the increasingly bizarre parallel universe in which I find myself living. A universe where all the logic and pragmatism that I was happy to have run the bits of the world I move in for nearly three score
Kerry Grant I see a nation of people, who have faltered and lost their wayWhose forefather's died for their freedom, so other's could give it away?A people who put their differences aside, while making the world a better placeNow lost through social dissension, our history
Geoffrey The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom tested positive for the China Virus. The Prime Minister of Canada did too. The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom went into isolation, and then into the hospital, and is now out and working. The Prime Minister of Canada went into isolation
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. * Professor Neil Ferguson from the ICL has estimated that 66% of all the people who die from COVID-19 during this pandemic would have died in the next year. If correct, this means that each month that
Tim Kirby strategic-culture.org Right now, across the USA there are either mass protests or mass riots depending on whom you ask and as usual the Punditry and Mainstream Media are doing their best to make this seem like an isolated, never before seen event on American soil. But,
Tim Graham papundits.wordpress.com James Freeman at The Wall Street Journal takes up a topic the liberal media elites will avoid: State and local officials are discriminating against religious services as they grant wide berths to protests in the streets. He began with a joke headline from the Babylon
Daniele Pozzati strategic-culture.org Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry. Some of the report key passages are: * The dangerousness of COVID-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did
My dear friend I applaud your heart as a teacher knowing that you’re trying to change the world by teaching kids that racism is not ok. And I see you’re trying your best to be a good person, to be inclusive of others regardless of their race and
Some people found New Zealand teacher Ethan Aloiai’s course on “Western Civilization” entitled “The West is the Best”. They said that it is proof that Ethan is a racist. Did they read it properly, though, I wonder, or did they stop reading after the title? In the course Ethan
Information A Fairy Tale Lightindarkplaces The magical shield that kept reality at bay shimmered protectively around the happy kingdom. On the other side of it Fairy Dust and her entourage were trying their best to make a decision. “The plague makers from yon east deny everything,” said the intelligence fairy.
Ghost Writer Jacinda: “She has fooled all of the people some of the time, now she will realise that she can only fool some of the people all of the time” Jacinda’s Jobless: This is the correct term to be used for the increase in unemployment in New Zealand
