When Transparency Is Deemed a Threat
Good regulation requires more than rules on paper. It requires a culture that values openness.
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It Is the Vanguard Argument... Again
Too often debates on topics are reduced to one phrase ‘this is not good for Māori’. While this may apply in some instances, it is now deployed so often that it has become a nonsense.
Lockdowns Did This to Our Children
They’ve ignored what they did, or, in many cases, been rewarded for it. The people who haven’t been rewarded? The children whose lives they destroyed. That’s the real legacy of Covid.
The Harvard vs Trump Legal Face-off
Free speech violation by Trump, or unconstitutional discrimination by Harvard?
From Hero to Zero
I suspect the support for the continue European funding of a proxy war in Ukraine will start very quickly to bleed away. The longer-term parliamentary consequences for mainstream political parties in Europe could be even more devastating.
How Hamas Controls the Media
It is time for media outlets, civil society, and political leaders to wake up to the role they are playing in perpetuating Hamas’s war strategy.
This Great Superiority Is a Delusion
The evidence indicates those who are genuinely smarter than average often harbour doubts about themselves and are very cautious about giving advice to others, let alone seeking to impose their views. By far the most dangerous people are those who are below average but do not recognise it.
Update on the ‘Bill Gates’ Case in the Netherlands
This globally important case involves much more than 'just' Gates. The facts, the background, the drama, the media, the fact checkers, and the lawyer who is currently imprisoned.
Decisions on Trans in Sport Will Be Decided by Money
But the number of actual participants is likely minuscule.
It’s Just a Passport... Except It’s Not
The battle over the words on our passports says a lot more about New Zealand than we’d like to admit.
To Find the Children
Protecting children from exploitation should be a non-partisan priority. Right now, too many legislators seem happy to sweep it under the rug.
Democrats Are Going Into Freefall
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for the party of the left, it does.
Trump Says to Stop the Immigration
The US president has called on European leaders to stop the ‘horrible’ invasion of migrants that has gone on for over a decade.