voicesforfreedom.co.nz I am flying to Auckland soon, which is my old home city, to attend a VFF event. My mother lives in Auckland and has a spare room. A month back, I alerted her to my possible journey and not having seen each other for a year or
Now, I’m as sceptical of conspiracy theories as anyone. As I often say, reading the Illuminatus! trilogy in my early teens inoculated me against the undoubted attraction of conspiratorial thinking. But I might need a booster, after the last few years. Because, if the last few years have taught
As I wrote recently, “fan-baiting” has become the go-to marketing tactic for the talentless dullards ruling the roost in modern Hollywood. Take a venerable, well-loved franchise, churn out a clumsy “reboot”, with race, gender and/or sexuality-swapped main characters. Then, when fans are inevitably aghast at what’s been done
