Today, the events are rhyming with the events that led to WWI. There is a lot known about the reasons for WWII, and Hitler is everybody’s fascist to denounce, but before him, there was another insecure German leader who helped launch World War I.
Everywhere, conquest and migration and displacement are woven into the fabric of local history.
If the Peronists return to power, no money for Argentina.
It’s a silence more revealing than any chant. It exposes the moral bankruptcy of those who posture as humanitarians while echoing the slogans of Hamas.
Authorities shut down the March for New Zealand protest.
When I visited the Gaza envelope earlier this year, I took one critical question with me and now I think I have an answer.
When a code of conduct stops regulating behaviour and starts enforcing belief, democracy is in danger. Clause 8 turns councillors into compliant subjects of an ideology they never voted for.
They invited anyone who agreed with them to add their names to the letter – and 2,000 academics duly obliged. Who do those witch-hunters remind you of? It’s inconceivable that they genuinely believed that scientific knowledge has no greater claim to being true than Māori mythology.
The links between anxiety and depression medications and the risk of suicide.
Fairness, justice, freedom of speech, the rule of law, the free exchange of labour, goods, and ideas. We’ll take a little bit more of each to start. We’re not saying utopia will spring up overnight – but it’ll be a lot better than what we have now.
From self-rated 8/10 to embarrassing Māori ward defeat.
Flaxmere College receives $262,720 of marginal funding per year as the highest EQI school in NZ. This is a 2.14 per cent addition to the funding level any high school in New Zealand receives. It works out at less than five dollars per student per day.
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
