Covid-19 Lessons Learned Report Any Day Now
For many featured in The Tribute, this report represents a final hope for official acknowledgement and the restoration of patient rights under the NZ Bill of Rights.
Reproduced with permission
Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, Smaller, Safer
I went to the Labour Party State of the Nation.
The Future of the Māori Seats
This is an issue National can no longer ignore. It needs to get off the fence and explicitly state whether or not it will support a referendum on the Māori seats.
Luxon Does Find Merit in Treaty Principles
PM echoing Seymour’s views flies under the radar.
The Spirit of Lysenko Dominates
Though Covid injections have resulted in the deaths of millions, we will never know how many. Deaths due to Lysenkoism are uncertain, too, but in both, millions of lives were sacrificed by suppression of science, enforced in the pursuit of power.
The Road to Hell Goes via BT
After spending Christmas sick, alone and offline, Jane Hewland says her saga with British Telecom shows what happens when humans defer to systems and AI – where scripts rule and a 10-minute fix takes a month.
The Excuse Doesn’t Survive a Simple Test
If there’s a broader reason for quitting the platform, fine, say it. But don’t sell the public a justification that falls over the moment someone tests it.
‘Trauma’ Can Not Excuse This
A critical look at the Auckland teacher grooming case of Tamlyn May – and a practical guide for parents to spot grooming and protect their children.
Stuff’s Operating Model Is Cheap and Lazy
It seems hard to believe that, with its resources, Stuff can’t present the readers of its papers with a more compelling editorial product. I’m therefore forced to the conclusion that the company is run by people who don’t care much about newspapers.
It Is All About Control
The motivations to stop using X – be it media or now the Clerk of New Zealand’s parliament – are couched in moral terms by opponents, but it’s all really about control, curation, and censorship.
The Origins of Myanmar’s Coup Culture
The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.