New Zealand’s Statesman: Winston Peters
Winston won’t be here forever. But while he is, he remains at this time the most formidable political figure in our country, bar none.
Olivia Pierson
Three Jews
Three Jews: a kindhearted rabbi from Judea, a Hellenised Jew from Egypt and a repentant Pharisee from Turkey, set the world on a radically new trajectory still holding its place in civilisation after two millennia.
Why Can’t We Talk Like This in 2025?
Dare we not to have these conversations again in person, since people seem to have a remarkable propensity to blank-out the political issues of the 20-50 years before they were born?
NZ Should Not Recognise a Palestine State
Our government could and should stand with Israel, not parrot the antisemitic garbage of Hamas’s cheerleaders. Real empathy for the October 7 victims demands we see through the fog of lies and bullshit.
Trump Acted to Fulfill a Long-Term Promise
Israel and the United States have acted to end this forever war, not ignite a new one.
Holy Week and the Beauty of the Western Canon
This holy week of Passover and Easter, instead of buying into the divisions that seek to sow so much strife among us, maybe consider that this enduring heritage that has anchored Western civilisation for over two thousand years is actually something golden.
Douglas Murray versus the Revisionists
Murray was appealing to something far more individually volitional – that of personal wisdom regarding the hugely disillusioned audiences they’re now talking to in this age of information. Veracity matters.
Politics at the Bottom of a Cliff
If all we consume is cynical, shallow and smutty rubbish, our politics will end up mirroring that. But if we’re immersed in heroic stories and finer ideas that ponder on what’s real, right, good and true – we’ll start to demand more from ourselves and our leaders.
The Woke Right and Hoopleheads
Hoopleheads miss the core of conservatism and classical liberalism: liberty of conscience, with its hard-won place in Western history, fiercely battled for intellectually by figures such as the Jew, Spinoza, the Christian, John Locke and the atheist, Ayn Rand.
The ‘Stab in the Back’ Myth
This narrative of Jewish betrayal, based on centuries-old religious prejudices, was heightened in the Nazi era and was fused with political and racial ideology. Christian leaders, both Catholic and Protestant, did not just passively accept this new antisemitism – they supported it.
Europe Begs Russia for War
If Europe had any sensible self preservation instincts left, they’d encourage Zelensky to go back and apologise for his cocky stupidity.
Thoughts After the Bibas Funeral
There are moments in human history so vile, so utterly dehumanising, that they lodge in your soul like shrapnel never to be extracted.
In Honour of the Bibas Family
Here in NZ today, where summer’s easygoing pace continues on a million miles away from this unfolding tragedy, I’ve felt like screaming into the void, being so far away yet connected to this dark, horrible news.
Draining the Swamp - Hello DOGE
For those who have long called for the draining of the Washington swamp, hello DOGE.
My Submission on the Gene Tech Bill
We have not yet come to terms with that massive debacle, with its fake, ineffective and rash “novel” mass “mRNA vaccination” campaign, yet here you are all now seeking to unleash another potential scientific perversion upon us