Peter Allan Williams peterallanwilliams.substack.com Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week. If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is making moves to reduce or eliminate te reo in correspondence because
Tani Newton normaleducation.wordpress.com No wonder it’s taking them so long to form a government. The list of problems they can’t fix, and that the public will get angry with them for not fixing, grows at about the same rate as the national debt. You could almost
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history
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.
Logan Chipkin Logan Chipkin is the Managing Editor at Brownstone. He writes about economics, science, history, and freedom and is the author of the fantasy novel, Windfall. brownstone.org At Brownstone’s third annual conference and gala, aptly called ‘Rebuild Freedom’, hundreds of scholars, writers, researchers, fellows, and supporters came
In 1983, Julie Brown released her sadly underrated pop classic, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid. The song’s uber-Valley Girl protagonist yearns for a “Superman with a lobotomy”. Authoritarian governments would concur, especially if one translates Superman to its German original Ubermensch. Authoritarians like their bootboys to follow orders,
familyfirst.org.nz Family First is calling for a phone app developed by Canterbury University with explicit content and advice on fingering, hand jobs, anal sex, chest binding and sex toys, to be withdrawn. The app has received terrible reviews from parents on both the App Store and Google Play
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
Gus Hubbard Gus Hubbard’s career and lifelong passion are in the field of mathematics education at all levels from new entrants to tertiary. Let me begin by saying my interest is in mathematics rather than politics. An acquaintance who was recently visiting on another matter, and who is aware
bobmccoskrie.com Last week I joined 1,500 delegates from 72 countries in London for perhaps the largest gathering of social conservatives & centre-right leaders in recent times – the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) inaugural conference. As ex-Deputy PM of Australia, the speaker at our Gala Dinner recently, and member
I first wrote it half in jest, but the joke’s been getting more serious every time I repeat it: bulldoze the universities. They’re beyond redemption by now, frankly. That’s not going to happen, of course. Sadly. But prospective students still have the ultimate power: the power of
Christian Toto newsbusters.org Megyn Kelly has a personal gripe with the woke mob. It essentially ended her broadcast career in 2018. Kelly, then working with NBC News, downplayed outrage over children dressing in blackface in ways that enraged the social justice warriors of that time. “Truly, you do get
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.
As I wrote recently, Harvard is finding out the hard way that its sickening tolerance for the most violent anti-Semitic attacks in nearly a century is hardly endearing them to wealthy Jewish Americans. The same wealthy Jewish Americans who help keep the Ivy League rolling in money. Several, such as
We are a group of parents with children at Mellons Bay School. In Term 3 2023, Mellons Bay School approved their “Inclusive Education” Policy which will require everyone to use preferred pronouns for transgender staff and students. When a parent wrote to ask, “Will children be disciplined for not using
