John Black
Bring Back Slavery
Information Satire Every man has his hobbies. Some collect stamps, others go fishing. Me, I get my kicks from table tennis, cake decorating and vicious racism. But it’s really been hard to enjoy the last of these lately. Gone are the days of driving up behind elderly Chinese ladies
Ten Reasons Why Captain Cook Was Awesome
The great ‘Awokening’ is upon us. The mania for seeking racial justice by toppling statues of dead white men has spread to New Zealand. Gisborne’s statue of Captain James Cook was targeted on Friday with swastikas and inane sloganeering. Pure idiocy. The dropkicks who advocate this rubbish aren’t
The New Zealand Race Riots of 2025
It should have been routine. A police caution for a broken tail light. A ‘get off the road and get it fixed’ situation. Until something went very wrong. The I-phone 11 didn’t appear and start filming until Lee Ropata was on the ground bleeding from a blow to the
Time for Civil Disobedience?
“The more restrictions and prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.” Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu “Never f**K with another man’s rice bowl” A lesser, unknown Chinese Philosopher When future historians describe what happened to the New Zealand economy in 2020 they will no doubt lay the
I Enjoy Beating My Wife…
…at table tennis, squash and chess. Context, as the above illustrates, is everything. Isolate facts (or words) and they can suffer distorted interpretations to fit an agenda. This is a banal observation to most thinking adults. Unfortunately, non-thinking adulthood appears to be in the ascendant at present. Two examples, one
Our Easter Amnesia
Richard Dawkins, Greta Thunberg, President Trump, Jacinda Ardern, Martin Luther King, the Beatles. What does the disparate group above have in common? They are Christians, all. Everyone born in the West inherits and in most cases embraces moral and ethical precepts that are unquestionably Christian in origin. They are so
A Misanthrope’s Paradise
Steeped as I am in Anglo-Saxon reserve, I sometimes find myself at serious odds with the times allotted me for my four score and ten. Not for me the incessant sharing of amateur self-portraiture, the eavesdropping on private moments and the social ‘connectedness’ of Facebook, Twitter and the others. I’
An Act of War?
In 1346 the Mongolian army brought the Black Plague to Europe. Laying siege to the Crimean port of Caffa, Jani Beg the leader of ‘the Golden Horde’ decided to catapult the infected corpses of his comrades over the city walls. Those citizens who escaped took the bacterium Yersinia Pestis back
A Year after Christchurch the Racism Slander Continues
It’s been a year since an act of a madman shocked the country. Fifty-one souls lost to a psychopath on an autumn afternoon in Christchurch. Our worst act of peacetime violence shouldn’t be an easy thing to forget. And yet, only a year on, those of a left-wing