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A Ceasefire of Silence...
When I visited the Gaza envelope earlier this year, I took one critical question with me and now I think I have an answer.
Not a Code of Conduct but a Mandate of Belief
When a code of conduct stops regulating behaviour and starts enforcing belief, democracy is in danger. Clause 8 turns councillors into compliant subjects of an ideology they never voted for.
Why Do They Keep Cancelling Each Other?
They invited anyone who agreed with them to add their names to the letter – and 2,000 academics duly obliged. Who do those witch-hunters remind you of? It’s inconceivable that they genuinely believed that scientific knowledge has no greater claim to being true than Māori mythology.
Can Some Medications Increase This?
The links between anxiety and depression medications and the risk of suicide.
What Would a Libertarian Society Look Like?
Fairness, justice, freedom of speech, the rule of law, the free exchange of labour, goods, and ideas. We’ll take a little bit more of each to start. We’re not saying utopia will spring up overnight – but it’ll be a lot better than what we have now.
Whanau’s Political Fall From Grace
From self-rated 8/10 to embarrassing Māori ward defeat.
Funding the Education for Children With Challenges
Flaxmere College receives $262,720 of marginal funding per year as the highest EQI school in NZ. This is a 2.14 per cent addition to the funding level any high school in New Zealand receives. It works out at less than five dollars per student per day.
Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize
As is currently fashionable to say when cancelling someone, Trump’s values do not align with those of the committee and the ideals of the prize.
Backing Woke Math Doesn’t Add Up Amid DEI Rollback
When it comes to math instruction, social justice means stripping it of basic features like numbers. The method, instructors explain, is designed to counter “European ways of knowing and doing.”
It Doesn’t Matter How Many Governments Implode
Macron won’t quit. The French president treated his latest ex-PM like a booty call and now they’re married again.
The Acceptance of Violence in Māori Culture
From cannibalism to intimidation: violence has deep roots in Māori culture.
Study Shows Support Is Missing for ‘Detransitioners’
This exposes a new form of stigma – using the language of the left: detransphobia.