Reading the News in These Times
The problem is pervasive. Entering such a terrain without basic self-defense skills is madness. Sadly, it’s also the norm.
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‘Net Zero’ Is All Miss on Wind
The numbers still don’t add up, but the troughers still want you.
Naplan Results Are In: You Can Guess the Rest
The best they can say is that it didn’t get any worse.
Kids Books and Big Policy Stitch-up
Join Stephen and I as we discuss kids books, library policies, whether we can actually have our concerns heard or not, and, if not, why not?
Court Dismisses Public Interest in Mass Medication
This is the same logic that justified Covid vaccine mandates – the state knows best, individual rights don’t matter, and anyone who questions medical authoritarianism represents only “private interests”.
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Leftists Outraged That People Prefer Beauty
The left wants us to be equally ugly and impoverished.
This Faith in Biotechnology and AI
The risks to the whole structure of Western civilisation should be obvious, but somehow we are sleepwalking to disaster. We need to wake up.
Vic Labor’s Secret Pipe Dreams
There is a risk that at least some of these loony policies will survive the journey from conference debate to eventual legislation.
Women to Go Australia for Treatment?
New Zealand women are being told to wait, fly across the country, or potentially cross international borders to receive care they should get in their own hospital.
Nicola Willis’ Cost-of-Living Sermon Falls Flat: More Spin Than Substance
Hipkins might be a hypocrite but he’s not wrong about one thing: things are getting worse for most New Zealanders. The coalition can’t keep blaming Labour forever – eventually they’ll have to own this.