Our Free Speech Is Under Fire
Former judge David Harvey forecasts fresh online regulation push.
Reproduced with permission
A Case of Bureaucracy First, Public Last
When leadership hides behind protocols and misses the warning signs, the public pays the price. The McSkimming case exposes a crisis of accountability.
Why Are Women Being Told Boyfriends Are ‘Uncool’?
So far, so 2025. And yet, the whole thing is so existentially sad.
SNAP, the Federal War on Self-Reliance
Since the Reagan era, any high-profile proposal to curb food stamp spending is accepted as sufficient proof of mass hunger and imminent catastrophe.
They Just Proved Tikanga Is Nothing More Than Mumbo-Jumbo
Prime Minister Chris Luxon was right: Te Pāti Māori is a joke.
Where ‘DEI’ Has Driven New Zealand
Horrid products of Woketearoa’s abandonment of merit.
Corrupt Top Cops Destroy Trust
Part One: How the highest level of New Zealand Police protected their own and prosecuted the victim
Thoughts on the Untold Stories
The Ardern luvvies will not want you to read this book. They’d rather not see their Saint Jacinda portrayed in any unflattering light – misogynists! On the other hand, Ardern’s harshest critics may feel Cohen didn’t go far enough.
We Need to Police the Police
Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, foster dad, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. My father was a police officer, and my uncle. A number of my friends are police officers, or
Why ‘Starving the Beast’ Feeds It Instead
The old fiscal conservative mantra – that cutting taxes restrains government – has failed the test of time. When spending continues on borrowed funds, it’s not the beast that starves, but future taxpayers.
Another Way to Self Destruct
Everything else – Islam, migrants, trans pride, Ukrainian security – is more important than delivering basic safety and reasonable cost of living to British taxpayers. Go online to complain and you risk being thrown in jail. Are these people evil?
Censorship and Your Creative Work: You Can Say No!
The purpose of this strategy isn’t just to make censorship obvious, but to mock it.
How I Got Here
I remember talking to American philosopher Peter Boghossian about what to do about captured universities. He said it was best to abandon them and start again. I feel the same about the MSM. I’m waiting for the whole shooting box to collapse and for new media to arise from the ashes.
The Heretics in the Temple of Education
New Zealand’s education establishment is fighting because these reforms expose that their romantic ideology – the idea that kids learn naturally without explicit teaching – has systematically failed. And the ones who paid were the children who needed school most.