The Commissioner Responds to My Questions
Evidence should drive policy, not rights rhetoric shielding low-quality practice. Commissioner offers an activist-influenced viewpoint, not a rigorous, child-centred application of evidence and ethics.
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The Inversion of NZ Education
Beware of teachers who tell your children WHAT to think instead of teaching them HOW to think.
Wishart Taking Media To Court
Wishart said the fight is not about climate change: it’s about making the media prove what they print.
Our Free Speech Is Under Attack
Six police cars turn up at my home to seize my hunting guns. Speak up and they come for your guns.
TOP Is a Trojan Horse for the Left
Why a vote for the Opportunities Party is simply a vote for the Greens and Labour.
The $20,000 Drone That Should Wake up the Pentagon
The Apache that went down over the Strait of Hormuz is not a story about one helicopter. It is a warning about the next war.
Get Ready for ‘Business Friendly Socialism’
The actual solution is embarrassingly simple. You are only “in hock to the bond market” if you borrow. This most certainly will not improve under a “business friendly” socialist.
Social Media Is Not Like Tobacco
Although it is reasonable to age-gate activities such as smoking, drinking and driving, to compare such restrictions to social media age restrictions is a false equivalency driven by far more insidious intentions.
We Should Read Between the Lines
Smuggling in a regime of pre-emptive speech control. The right response is therefore the simplest one. Support the deepfake amendment for exactly what it is – a narrow, sound, self-contained closing of a gap in the law – and refuse, flatly, to let the commission’s wider regime ride in on its back.
Pride Cometh Before the Fall: The Sporting Backlash
Pride in sport is doing more harm than good.
A Look at TOP’s Citizen’s Income Policy
TOP just wants to redistribute more than ever before, with no strings and no obligations, all the while pretending they have a magic bullet to do away with complexity, EMTRs and to fire-up the economy. I don’t think they understand human nature.
In Deciding the 2026 Election
This is the sleeper issue of the 2026 election. The real test for political parties is whether they can step up to the challenge.