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The Instinct to Hurt Those With Whom One Disagrees
We must learn to notice those instincts so that we can signal appropriate disgust wherever we encounter them.
There Are No Ordinary People
Ordinary people can be locked down, surveilled, imprisoned, cordoned off, written off, dosed up on junk food and fat jabs, made to install inefficient heat pumps, sacked, housed in ugly new builds, left uneducated, laughed at and looked down upon, because they’re only ordinary.
This House Has Confidence in the President-Elect
Is celebrating a political assassination is a breach of basic decency and in conflict with the aims of the union he is set to lead? What should the limits of free speech be in positions of responsibility and employment?
What Is the Plan for Supporting the Lowest Schools?
You – Minister Stanford – have listened to very narrow views and have not addressed the needs of truly struggling schools.
Govt Must Act On Puberty Blockers
Family First’s position remains that there should be an immediate end to new prescribing of puberty blockers due to the clear lack of quality probative evidence of efficacy and safety.
Teachers to Strike for Higher Pay and More te Reo Support
“The offers also ignore educators and children’s need for more support in the classroom and for te Tiriti and te reo Māori.”
Ministry Launches a Prototype App
Collins hails ‘convenience’. Others argue no government software should run on personal devices.
How They Programmed Young People to Hate
This is not collateral damage. It is the design. A fractured society is a pliable society. The more its members despise one another, the easier it is for elites to consolidate power under the guise of adjudicating conflicting rights-claims.
China’s Elite Are Disillusioned – But Can’t Quit the US
‘Chimerica’ is unraveling – but its contradictions remain.
This Is Creating a New Aristocracy
Creating parallel power structures based on race does not heal divisions – it institutionalises them.
The Lessons to Be Learnt
Let this tragedy not be in vain. Let it be the impetus for a better way forward.
Why the Rise in Identity Crises?
It never used to be a problem, so what’s changed? Biology hasn’t. Social engineering has.
