Our Favorite Inspired Idiots
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the most absurd stories in case you missed them.
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the most absurd stories in case you missed them.
Political organiser and former Labour councillor pleads guilty to child sexual offences.
When the Holocaust is stripped of its Jewish meaning, it does not produce universal solidarity – it produces a moral vacuum in which antisemitism can once again speak the language of virtue.
A lived account of lockdowns, mandates and the human cost in New Zealand.
Of course quangos go in to bat for the crims.
Because children are not the priority. The institution is. And that, more than anything else, is why the public no longer believes the church when it says ‘never again’.
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Willis is desperately clueless. If she cannot predict the effect of the Reserve Bank freezing OCR while dumping tens of billions of dollars into the economy, without holding a review, then she doesn’t deserve a second term as finance minister.
An astonishing $15 billion funneled to criminal gangs.
This narrative normalises failure and lowers expectations. It tells people their circumstances are not really changeable without sweeping political transformation. That is not empowerment. It is treating people like children dressed up as compassion.
This forces Christopher Luxon and his crew to confront their bad habit of selling out to Māori interests, a pattern that kicked off under Jim Bolger and went into overdrive with John Key.
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