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Are Lower Birth Rates Bringing the West to the Brink?

David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer of political philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. We are living at a time when a large segment of the world – particularly societies in Europe, North America and Asia – no longer views having children as something desirable or

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The list of things the tennis world has yet to learn about Lulu Sun is long. The journey of the 123rd-ranked Sun, who is competing in just her second main draw of a Grand Slam, from the qualifying tournament to a quarterfinal berth at Wimbledon – where the women’s tournament

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Recent Experiences with NZ Banks Not Good

Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. Back in the day

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The Vulnerable Are Still Being Required to Take the Jab

The Vulnerable Are Still Being Required to Take the Jab

It is appalling in 2024 that people who are at a particularly high risk of dying or becoming seriously unwell are told they must have the Covid-19 gene therapy jab. This comes as cardiologists, specialists and doctors around the world are asking for this vaccine to be urgently pulled off

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100% Pure Can’t Do Attitude

As an astute reader noted, I recently referred to New Zealand as Australia’s “Very Special sibling”. I should mock, though: I live in Tasmania. Tassie and NZ have a lot in common: we’re small, remote and like to sell ourselves on our natural beauty. But we’re also

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Are We Weak, or Just Our Leaders?

Are We Weak, or Just Our Leaders?

I recently pondered if the dire state of Western civilisation was all our own fault: are we the ‘weak men’ who make hard times? Making the West strong again requires hard decisions and hard work with much risk and not much prospect of immediate reward. Collectively, though, we’re all

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Paddy Throws One on Matters of Race

Paddy Throws One on Matters of Race

Joseph Los’e, the Herald’s Kaupapa Maori editor, had an article in Monday’s Herald featuring Paddy Gower and his thoughts on matters of race. Evidently the problems concerning race are, by and large, caused by old white men. There are a number of points Gower made that I,

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The Strange History of a Charming Meme

Who was Kilroy, and why was he here? He was what might be considered a prototypical example of what biologist Richard Dawkins dubbed a “meme”, a simple cartoon drawing of a man peering over a wall, with the tag, “Kilroy Was Here”. It spread across every theatre in WWII were

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India and Israel: New BFFs

Since the October 7 atrocities, Israel has seen its staunchest ally, the United States, turn lukewarm at best. At the same time, a sickening wave of anti-Semitism has swept the West – and shows no sign of abating. By contrast, a formerly staunch ally of the Arab cause – the first non-Arab

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Are We All the Weakies?

Are We All the Weakies?

We can all sense that Western civilisation is collapsing around us. The left celebrate it, the rest of us worry about it – hence the surprising, to some, women especially, fact that a great many men ponder the Fall of Rome quite regularly – and we all want to blame (or lay

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Freedom, Moral Norms and the State

Freedom, Moral Norms and the State

Jonathan Cole Jonathan Cole is an academic working in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. He is also host of The Political Animals, a podcast that explores the political ideas of the Right through intellectual biography. Are moral norms compatible with individual freedoms? The answer should be an

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What Are the Groomers up To, Today?

What Are the Groomers up To, Today?

For all the furious denial from the LGBTEIEIEO lobby that their movement has become a grooming front, even the most pathologically “progressive” parent surely can’t help but notice all the, well, actual grooming going on. At this point, so-called “Pride” looks like little more than NAMBLA with rainbow stickers

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Is New Zealand In Mourning?

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Prime Minister Luxon, on hearing that Charles and Camilla will be visiting Australia but not New Zealand, issued “an open invite” to visit New Zealand. That is the same “invite” already available to everyone else in the world, in line with our major tourist industry.

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The Elusive Goal of Kotahitanga

The Elusive Goal of Kotahitanga

Tani Newton Te Pati Maori’s call for a separate Maori Parliament may sound treasonous to some. To others, it is just another episode in the long and mildly sad story of a basically happy country that longs for a unity it can never quite achieve. Hobson’s promise, “We

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