Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. When I was young, kids appeared before a magistrate (a district court judge before 1978) sufficiently rarely that questions
Jacinda Ardern normally rushes for the costume shop as she seeks to curry favour in the aftermath of a tragedy. But after the cruel slaying of an Indian dairy worker, all of a sudden she seems rather coy about playing dress-ups and rushed off to the Chatham Islands on Air
Some years ago, I read an account of what it was like to be a Facebook moderator. This was, of course, back in the day when they spent less time policing WrongThink and actually tried, at least, to contain the sewer of graphic violence and child abuse. It was a
Helen Houghton C0-leader New Conservative Party Today’s headline, is anyone surprised? Take away parents’ ability to give consequences for misbehaviour; take away a teacher’s ability to remove unruly students from the classroom; take away a family’s ability to provide for their own; take away our police presence
This Goverment has a terrible trait of never taking responsibility for their own policies and actions. They always seek to blame others for their numerous failings. Remember Ardern chucking a KFC worker under the bus, also Americold for various Covid outbreaks? Then there were the three women they defamed and
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Is there a more openly, violently misogynist ideology than transgenderism? Outside of Iran or Afghanistan there are few ideologies whose members so often threaten women with violence, or have the police arrest and detain women who openly criticise their ideas. Real women, that is. Not pretendy men in dresses. As
Bernard Lane genderclinicnews.substack.com Bernard Lane is an Australian journalist on the gender clinics beat; local and global news coverage of the trend for children & adolescents to undergo medicalised gender change. Litigation over Australia’s youth gender clinics is likely to fix on fertility-destroying treatment, lack of fully
Just in time for Donald Trump’s announcement of a 2024 presidential run, the FBI has quietly nixed the “insurrection” narrative of the 6 January 2020 riots. That isn’t stopping the Democrats or the legacy media from continuing to flog their debunked narrative as hard as they can. After
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. As government politicians put the boot into National’s bootcamp announcement yesterday, Christopher Luxon would have been celebrating.
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. If bollards were the solution to ram raids and youth crime, then the National Party’s solution of fog cannons would have solved it eight years ago – because it’s the same thing. The reason why they both won’t work is that they aren’
Helen Houghton nc.org.nz New Conservative “Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, as well as charges of breach of a protection order, intentional damage, and resisting police”. Matthew Richard Nelson was sentenced in Hamilton on Tuesday for stabbing three people in a frenzied attack. He is entitled
A brave mother and daughter were bruised after a gutsy attempt to stop hammer-wielding offenders as they fled the scene after robbing the Ellerslie Jewellers & Engravers jewellery store in Auckland. “Like hell” they were getting away with it, Lesley said. The two women ran after the group of masked
