A railway driver is dead. A friend of mine is recovering from multiple broken bones. Other staff have been through something that may stay with them for years. These are the things that matter to me. The colour of a profile picture doesn’t. Neither does the performance of grief on social media.
The MDBP was always a political solution to a political problem, but its consequences are not minor. We are long overdue for a dose of non-political reality.
From the authoritarian ‘kindness’ of the contemporary left deliver us, O Lord!
Clare Swinney highlighted the scale of coordination already underway across government and councils, modelled on Covid-era response frameworks.
Critical analysis: NZ First’s Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill – the backlash, their funding, and who they are actually representing.
It is a coup, engineered by a small number of tribal elite thanks to successive governments willingness to sacrifice New Zealand democracy for totalitarian tribal rule.
The Nippon deal brought together investment, stability, and long-term planning in a way Washington rarely manages.
Can’t we all just get a grip? And help our children get a grip?
In the 21st century, costs will outweigh the benefits, according to a 2023 paper released earlier this year. Researchers determined that the Paris climate policy will cost $27 trillion per year, while the benefits will be $4.5 trillion annually.
This is not a small distinction. Equal is a mathematical word. Fair is a moral word.
The greatest threat to the United States right now – the most immediate and pressing one – is the looming midterms.
A $400 fine is an annoying cost for many people. For someone living on a pension, it can become a fortnight-by-fortnight reminder that the safest decision still lost its appeal. And that is the real reason this story will irritate people.
A party no longer recognisable as the thing it is supposed to be is a party with no particular reason to exist.
Less Anglo-Polynesian, more Asian. Does it matter?
The government is effectively placing itself in the position of deciding what forms of expression are acceptable and what forms are not, measured against its own political and economic objectives.
As the old saying goes, turkeys don’t vote for an early Christmas.
