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No officer, that’s not a weapon in my knickers, it’s a teaspoon

No officer, that’s not a weapon in my knickers, it’s a teaspoon

A British school has devised a method to foil their students being forced in child marriage when they return overseas for holidays. Quote. Students at the Co-operative Academy of Leeds have been encouraged to alert authorities by putting a spoon in their underwear to trigger metal airport detectors. Children at

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Noisy minority holds us to ransom again

If you?ve ever tried to drive into the city from the airport, or indeed any of Wellington?s eastern suburbs during rush hour, you will know what a nightmare it is. That our most direct route to the airport is strangled by a single lane stretch of road that

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Words matter

By PharmaBloke We need better words. Short version If I have to define myself, I?m a Sharia-phobe. Long version (the ramblings of another ?drunk uncle??) I?ve posted earlier in the week on Islamophobia and definitions that, to my mind, confuse rather than shed light. The definition accepted by

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A personal thank you to some of our local heroes

A personal thank you to some of our local heroes

Some may have noticed I have been a bit quiet over the last few weeks. To be honest, the actions of the Christchurch Coward rattled me pretty badly. Not so much because of the act itself, as monumentally awful as it was, I didn’t have skin in the game.

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Islamophobia or Islamophilia?

Islamophobia or Islamophilia?

Too Right A regular column by John Black Rightminds A few years ago the English writer Douglas Murray published a book entitled Islamophilia: a very Metropolitan Malady. It attempted to upset the premise of widespread Islamophobia by cataloguing the limitless kowtowing of the great and the good to the tender

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Inappropriate thought tax

The media’s focus of the TWG’s report has been entirely on Capital Gains Tax, but there are a number of other proposed taxes in the report that have not had much airtime. One in particular had been mostly overlooked, mainly because it was considered too difficult to implement.

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Top Ten posts of the week

This Monday morning post is to provide you with the links to the top TEN?most read?posts of the past week so that you can easily catch up on the most interesting and popular posts written by our Whaleoil writers over the past 7 days ( Sunday to Monday). https:

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Golriz goes too far

Golriz goes too far

We have all observed how, after the Christchurch massacre, both Marama Davidson and Golriz Ghahraman have used their platform of love and inclusion to incite hatred, particularly towards those of European descent. It is a huge paradox, of course. In an attempt to eliminate ‘hate’, they incite hate against a

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Daily proverb

Proverbs 1 7 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge,    but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

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