Pakuranga Fire and a Cheap Shot
Spare us the moral grandstanding about firefighters “gambling with lives” when the real gamble is a system that underpays essential services while happily burning money elsewhere.
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A Custody Battle Over Son’s Gender
The father says the ruling is based on an interpretation of “gender dysphoria” that he rejects. He believes that serious medical questions, complex neurodevelopmental issues, and recorded concerns in medical records have been overlooked.
The Politics of Our Language
That is “reverse language imperialism”. And, the politics of language in New Zealand.
New Review Linking Jab to Cancer Targeted
Shortly after publication, Oncotarget became inaccessible, with the journal attributing the outage to an ongoing cyberattack that has been reported to the FBI.
This Sets a Precedent
The question is not whether Maduro deserved his fate. The question is what kind of world we are building when we cheer the method that delivered it.
This Is State Sponsored Arrogance
Latest developments in a storm that’s not in a teacup.
No Silly Season This Summer
This is not a silly season – it’s a season of long-overdue reckoning.
The Monopoly in Behind MMH
Entrusting millions of Kiwis’ health records to a one-man monopoly was a disaster waiting to happen and we’re all waking up to the cost of that mistake.
Time to Wake Up: The Rules-Based Order is Dead, and That’s No Bad Thing
Failed states deserve occasional thumps. Might is Right never stopped mattering, no matter what the elite bleats.
Good Oil General Debate
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Face of the Day
British newspaper the Independent called Bob Weir “arguably rock’s greatest, if most eccentric, rhythm guitarist”.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… multitudinous (adjective) - 1: including a multitude of individuals : populous 2: existing in a great multitude 3: existing in or consisting of innumerable elements or aspects Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : “I am large, I contain multitudes.” So wrote Walt Whitman in his most celebrated poem, “Song