E-Karen Tries the Principal Skinner Approach
She hasn’t failed: it’s everyone else’s fault.
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How Do Fugitives Like Dezi Freeman Evade Police for So Long?
A person going off the grid is one of the greatest challenges police face in trying to find someone, because technology serves as a person’s electronic footprint.
It Is More Than Dismal Now
My personal perspective on all this is much darker than Damien Grant’s. We have consistently failed to meet the challenges of the future over the last 25 years and each decade (or even half-decade) has felt more constrained, stressful and gloomy than the one before it.
Albert Park, three years on, and a lot has changed
The events at Albert Park in March of 2023 look less like the high-water mark of an unstoppable cultural consensus, and more like the moment the consensus began to crack.
Alfred Ngaro: Back in the Arena
Alfred Ngaro, ex National MP, leader of NewZeal Party, is now getting behind New Zealand First. But is NZ First truly becoming a ‘socially conservative’ party?
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What Will It Take to End War?
We take this as the price of the relative peace and prosperity we have come to expect. And yet it somehow doesn’t keep delivering peace and prosperity. Instead, we now have endless war and the privations and hardships that war necessarily entails.
Just More Woke Entrenchment
Mechanisms of ideological Identitarian societal capture…complete with a case study.
How to Survive the Fuel Crisis
Adult roly-pollies should be approached with caution, particularly amongst the morbidly obese. These muthas can pick up quite a speed and may only be able to be stopped by coastal cliffs or large bodies of water.
The Catholic Church and Matariki
The issue is not mere cultural acknowledgement: it is syncretism.
Of Fuel and Fury
How can a government ministry blatantly fund political and ‘furious’ activism, yet there be so little media scrutiny? And why the fuel crisis should have been anticipated.
National MPs meet, rumours fly, and Luxon starts sounding like Sir Humphrey
The cabinet reshuffle on Thursday will be spun as business as usual. Do not believe it for one second. The meetings, the leaks, the grumpiness in Auckland and the raw numbers in caucus tell their own story.
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