Many many years ago, I was partly involved in organising free lunches at a local school. The school was in a very poor area, the kids were coming to school hungry and we all know that hungry kids don’t learn. There were bakeries around that used to send the
Some years back, I was walking down the street when I was confronted with that scourge of the modern urban landscape: the Intersection ‘Honkers’. You know the ones: the invariably lefty activists (righties are presumably too busy actually working to be able to stand on street corners all day) forming
As Clive Hamilton argues in his book Silent Invasion, Australian institutions at all levels have been shockingly blind to the creeping threat of communist China. Successive governments, business, academia, even local councils, have been too dazzled by the lure of “Belt and Road Initiative” money to stop and give even
NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge says “any Australian education institute that’s got a formal arrangement with the Confucius Institute should come under vastly closer scrutiny”.
Hello Everyone, students, Rams, people, They / them / theirs /Ze / hir / hir and Nige. I am so pleased to see all you deplorables this Sunday morning ready to learn how to use inclusive language. Today the lesson is about a term that originally referred to a person, usually a soldier who
If you think legacy media reporting in general is bad, then you ought to try reading legacy media science reporting. Science reporting, more than any other it seems, has degenerated into simply regurgitating press releases. The “journalists” are generally woefully ignorant of basic scientific practice, let alone the rudiments of
The Rantykiwi top bloke award for this week goes to Cameron Davis, the principal of Riverton’s Aparima College. He’s stepped up and said cellphones have no place in schools, wants the community to back banning them from his school, and is calling the local community out for not
Students at George Washington University recently signed a petition to change the crosswalk sign from a ‘white man’ to something more diverse… If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
At least some of the useful idiots of Australian academia seem to be belatedly waking up to the fact that all that sweet, sweet Chinese money they’ve been gobbling blindly comes with some very cutting strings attached. The very people who indignantly screech about their “academic freedom!” when a
Dr Melissa Derby has explained how Benevolent racism is still racism and why it harms Maori instead of helping them. ‘Racism’ is a term we hear often these days, […] the debate over the meaning of the term seems to rest on the issue of power, and who has it. This,
Mark Latham was the last genuinely “Labor” Labor leader. Naturally, the party elite hated him. Yet, despite his rough-hewn persona, “Biff” achieved some significant wins during his time as Opposition leader: not only did he personally rein in the worst excesses of politicians’ Sun King-like retirement benefits, he
This week, Ruwan, Beth and Villa Education Trust’s Alwyn Poole discuss ACT’s Partnership Schools and Student Education Accounts and the Government’s plan to take control away from community-run schools.
Hello Everyone, students, Rams, people, They / them / theirs /Ze / hir / hir and Nige. I am so pleased to see all you deplorables this Saturday morning ready to learn how to use inclusive language. Today the lesson is about two words that erase other cultures and portray the United States as
National party The Government’s polytechnic and industry announcement yesterday will cost thousands of jobs and may be the death knell for some polytechnics. Moving apprentices back to polytechnics and creating one mega polytechnic will cost at least 1300 jobs in industry and probably as much again in polytechnics. Employers
ACT party The Foreign Minister must seek an explanation from the Chinese Consul General over the second attempt in 12 months by the Chinese Government to shut down an event at the Auckland University of Technology. Newsroom reported this morning that AUT stopped a commemoration of the anniversary of Tiananmen
