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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.
My Oxford Union Speech
The house believes that the Sun should never have set on the British Empire.
What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
Gratitude is the first principle of prosperity. Demanding something for nothing misunderstands both economics and human nature.
The Increase in Wrong Release
These are not anomalies. In the year to March 2025, 262 prisoners were mistakenly released, a 128 per cent surge from 115 the previous year, and a 434 per cent leap from 49 in 2015.
COP30: The Usual Ones Sound the Alarm
Prince William speaks, but others are singing a new climate tune.
Inflatable Ingrid, Simon’s New Friend
Honestly, you buy one little blow-up doll and people assume the worst.
‘Let’s Meet for Coffee’: Matthew Horncastle
Horncastle said he has been approached for informal discussions about future political involvement but remains focused on business. “But if in 10 years’ time New Zealand is still heading in the wrong direction, I’ll have a crack at running. And if I run, I run to win.”
And the Next United Nations Secretary-General Is...
If a young girl who started out wrapping greasies in a Morrinsville fish shop on a Friday night can end up as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, anything is possible!
Ban for Under-16s to Begin Before Christmas
Those who are opposed to this globalist control creep promoted by bureaucrats and politicians under the guise of ‘safety’ are urged to sign the petition.