The Instinct to Hurt Those With Whom One Disagrees
We must learn to notice those instincts so that we can signal appropriate disgust wherever we encounter them.
Culture
There Are No Ordinary People
Ordinary people can be locked down, surveilled, imprisoned, cordoned off, written off, dosed up on junk food and fat jabs, made to install inefficient heat pumps, sacked, housed in ugly new builds, left uneducated, laughed at and looked down upon, because they’re only ordinary.
This Is Creating a New Aristocracy
Creating parallel power structures based on race does not heal divisions – it institutionalises them.
Diving Into Obscurity: ‘Long Weekend’ and ‘Next of Kin’
Two shamefully ignored Ozploitation classics.
Bless the Celebrities Who Do Their Quiet Charity
Not blowing their trumpets like the hypocrites.
Councils Hasten to Embed Tribal Control
…before 2025’s local body elections, Māori ward referenda, RMA reform, or the coalition government gets off its chuff!
The Decision to Keep Epping’s Hotel Open
With the hotels remaining open, we are now due for yet more protests, yet more anger, and yet more public resentment over this issue. In the long-run this makes a political resolution, in the form of a change of government, much more likely.
Our Courts Are Undermining the Govt’s Intent
In this judge’s application of the law, the very clear message the ban is meant to send has been muddied and weakened.