Camryn Brown Political Commentator commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room History could not be more clear: when politics become pointless, violence often follows. So, let’s talk about culture wars, how they turn politics into an ineffective sideshow, and the danger we face in New
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.
How long before Australians start booing the tedious, fatuous, insulting, endless “Welcome to Country” nonsense? So far, a great many of us have so far settled for quietly rolling our eyes as we are browbeaten with this fabricated nonsense at weddings, school assemblies, sports matches and even every day plane
Alwyn Poole 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 Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com I
As I wrote recently for Insight, the elite are ever-obsessed with controlling language. That’s because language and thought operate in an unbreakable feedback loop. As Orwell said, “language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to
Hannah Viney Hannah Viney works for the Old Treasury Building Museum. This research was originally conducted for an upcoming exhibition at the Museum. lens.monash.edu There are roughly 22 million jars of Vegemite manufactured in the original Melbourne factory every year. According to the Vegemite website, about 80 per
Harry Palmer I’ve often read the phrase ‘that’s what they want us to do’ written by commenters in response to suggestions that politicians have gone too far and won’t listen and so are provoking a possible civil war. That phrase suggests that if ‘the authorities’ are looking
Sir Ray Avery Scientist, Inventor and Philanthropist commonroomnz.com This article was first published at The Common Room There was once an ambitious Kiwi who loved to invent things that helped people. One of his technologies helped millions of the poorest of the poor see again on a global scale.
As BFD readers are no doubt aware, I often caution against paying attention to the blatherskite of celebrities. Mostly because most of them are as dumb as a box of rocks, and groupthinkers who live by Homer Simpson’s “Code of the Schoolyard”: Never say anything unless you’re sure
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of, The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. With the sobering and inspiring film Sound of Freedom hitting theatres this week, we are faced with the reality
Kokho Jason Sit Senior lecturer in Marketing; Associate Head (Global) University of Portsmouth Life today is stressful. Since the start of the pandemic, social media has been flooded with coping mechanisms and wellbeing trends to help people manage their emotions and worries about the state of the world. If you’
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Retired scientist Dr Bob Brockie recently penned the enclosed article for this blog. In these often contentious and gloomy times, it’s always heartening to encounter some good news. GOOD NEWS The illusion of moral decline. Is the world becoming more immoral? This month, two American
All it took was one game. One game to spark a love affair that’s lasted more than 35 years for Marita Sutherland. The Southland All Blacks mega fan from Dacre, Southland, has a room full of memorabilia, a meticulously curated scrapbook, tattoos and has even named her boys in
Tom Olohan newsbusters.org After July 4th came and went without providing any relief to Bud Light’s cratering sales and stock price, The Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles gave the floundering company an ultimatum. Knowles went after Bud Light hard on The Michael Knowles Show, July 6th, noting
Katherine Johnson offered $50 on Facebook if a truck driver would take her son Oliver for a ride for his birthday. But Hart Haulage CEO Barry Hart decided to arrange a truck convoy. Hart put a call out on social media and 64 drivers turned up for Ollie’s birthday
We all know that modern “art” is mostly crap. As the great critic Robert Hughes said of the ridiculously overrated graffiti artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, “In a saner culture than this one, the 20-year-old Basquiat might have gone off to four years of boot camp in art school, learned some real
