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The Way Things Were

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently someone sent me a faded photo of my standard four class in Lower Hutt, 75 years ago. The oddities vis a vis the current situation were first, a total of 44 of us. I’m told in state schools today the maximum class size

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Student Brownshirts Come for the Jews

Student Brownshirts Come for the Jews

As I reminded BFD readers, it should not be forgotten that university students were early and enthusiastic adopters of Nazi ideology in the Third Reich. Students, as the Holocaust Encyclopedia relates, “often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”. They’re at it again. Yes, nearly a century

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Brown Shirts on Campus

Brown Shirts on Campus

In the 1930s, university students were at the vanguard of the Nazi Reich. The National Socialist German Student League soon became notorious as one of the most antisemitic groups in the Reich. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, “Paramilitary student groups often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor It is another Hipkins disaster. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350246034/how-did-cost-moving-two-schools-blow-out-more-400m I have been in the building industry for over twenty years and I have done a lot of schools. I find them a low margin business for several reasons. I obviously am moving in the

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Is This the Way to Eliminate Poverty?

Is This the Way to Eliminate Poverty?

Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. I just got back from the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. The theme of the Commission this year was ending poverty. I spent a week listening

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Where Is the Integrity From the Top Twelve?

Where Is the Integrity From the Top Twelve?

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.

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Another Brick in the Wall

Another Brick in the Wall

Max Payne libertyitch.com Max Payne is the Australian Program Associate with Students For Liberty, a global non-profit that spreads the values of libertarianism on campus. He is also a twice former candidate with the Libertarian Party and maintains a keen interest in Austrian economics, classical music and organic gardening.

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Should Ex-Politicians Be Able to Lead Unis?

Should Ex-Politicians Be Able to Lead Unis?

Tom Baker Associate Professor in Human Geography University of Auckland The appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to see why the university’s governing body made

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Maybe Seymour Is Just Hipkins in Disguise

Maybe Seymour Is Just Hipkins in Disguise

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. alwynpoole.substack.com When

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Two Big Problems With School Strike for Climate

David Seymour David Seymour is leader of the ACT Party and Associate Minister of Education (Partnership Schools). bassettbrashandhide.com The so-called School Strike for Climate isn’t just a problem for attendance, it is bad for mental health and fixing the climate, too. Monday and Tuesday were days off school

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Protest Doesn’t Pass the Sniff Test …

Protest Doesn’t Pass the Sniff Test …

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com Media, left-wing MPs, and progressives delighted in another School Strike for Climate Change last Friday. As I

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Not Learning Standard ‘White’ English Is Empowering?

George Leef George Leef is director of editorial content for the James G Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College (Waukesha, WI) and a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation

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Not a Zoo Trip for Kids

Not a Zoo Trip for Kids

Remember when it was all, “Gays are just nice, normal people entitled to their privacy like anyone else”? Somehow that’s become, “Gays like to bang animals and they want to tell your kids about it in secret!” If the latter sounds “homophobic” to you, rest easy. It’s officially

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Pushing Back on Critical Race Theory

Pushing Back on Critical Race Theory

John Porter With Critical Race Theory (CRT), we face a doctrine deeply embedded for decades with its genesis in Marxism. I have written earlier that we should all have serious concerns about the incremental creep of CRT into our lives and also into our country’s culture and governance. The

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