Can We Look Back in Anger Yet?
Tolerance must not be a suicide pact. Every time a politician chooses comfort over clarity and a journalist downplays jihadist violence they are laundering ideology. This is how a society talks itself into paralysis.
Tolerance must not be a suicide pact. Every time a politician chooses comfort over clarity and a journalist downplays jihadist violence they are laundering ideology. This is how a society talks itself into paralysis.
This very hot potato is now in their court – getting in a mixed metaphor before they’re banned for changing the weather – and, whilst we worry how the report will land in February, we must all get on board the patriot train now and resist the over-reach like our lives depend on it.
For too long, we have tolerated people calling for the very violence that occurred at Bondi Beach.
Conservatives face a critical task: reassert the principles that defined the movement – individual liberty, limited government, and distrust of authoritarianism – or lose it to unprincipled opportunists.
They don’t understand that it’s their own policies causing the pain. Yet when prices rise, unemployment creeps up, and housing becomes unaffordable they just double down on price controls, taxes, wage mandates, bloated spending, and regulatory overreach.
Crazy or common sense? Free speech and privacy vs national security.
There’s nothing xenophobic or racist about favouring national stability and cohesion and ensuring all those who come to live in Australia accept and live by the values and beliefs that make it such a unique country.
Consumer groups are urging New Zealanders who value clear food labelling to make submissions opposing any move toward QR-code-only disclosures, arguing that on-pack labels remain essential for informed decision-making.
A woke battle for victimhood supremacy drowns out mature debate on resource management reforms.
As far as the government is concerned, it is a case of hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. And that is wilful ignorance of wrongdoing.
Allegations of bullying, union-busting, and the story legacy media won’t touch.
The very worst thing we can do is to continue down the current path of welfarism and creeping UBI. As a society we need to provide help for those whose jobs disappear to retrain and look for the new opportunities that will arise.
Will Milei and his program of real economic freedom be given a full chance, not just for two years but for an entire decade or even longer? For that is the timeframe needed for the transition to a free market economy.
I believe that, a decade down the road, it will be clear that 2025 was a turning point for the better.