North Korea Quietly Menacing as the World Watches Iran
Bad boy of the Indo-Pacific, Kim Jong Un is still causing trouble.
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We Need To Protect This Minority
This is the text of a speech I made opposite Downing Street last Thursday at a protest organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
The University Cauldron Where It All Starts
Over time, institutions – such as the public service or the industrial relations system or higher education – become adept at building up defences and seeing off zealous reformers. The only option is to break with.
Where Are the Police?
Allegations last year raised serious questions about the priorities of the New Zealand Police, it seems they are more focused on policing online speech than addressing severe criminal behaviour.
Who Is Right About the India Free Trade Agreement?
Not a disaster. Not a breakthrough. Just a trade deal.
The Royal Family’s Association With Mike Bloomberg
The Royal Family is failing in its duty to uphold political neutrality. Prince William would do well to shed the Earthshot Prize, Mike Bloomberg and avoid the environmental activism of his father.
Can Police Search Every Phone in a Crowd?
Rutherford urges Supreme Court to block police uses of dragnet cell phone surveillance.
This Disturbing Reaction to a Would-Be Assassin
As Voltaire observed, a few decades before the bloody French Revolution, “Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
This Is What Positive Discrimination Looks Like
Looking behind the curtain that shrouds a system of continual government-sponsored, race-centric, privilege.
Hamlet and the NZ Media
Some journalists recent behaviour, legal threats, hidden stories and an ideologically captured regulator. The state of New Zealand’s media is akin to a Shakespearean tragedy.