Enjoying the glory of our cricket team winning the inaugural Test Cricket World Cup is a magical moment for sport in this country, and one that we cricket fans can savour for a long time. It almost takes away the bad taste of the other sporting announcement this week; almost,
A grumpy dyke, a tranny and a fatty walk into a lingerie catalogue. No, this isn’t the setup for a rather lame joke. It’s the setup for an even lamer marketing campaign. Victoria’s Secret sells lingerie: bras, knickers, suspender belts, all that sort of “boudoir”. Its image
Groucho Marx would never join a club that would accept him as a member. On the other hand, certain women are determined to barge their way into any clubs that just don’t want them. HESTA chief Debby Blakey has added her voice to the growing chorus against The Australia
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union Further to Jordan’s article yesterday, I am writing to ask you to support us in forcing Auckland Council to respect the rights of free speech – and stop banning groups they disagree with from using public facilities. This time, it’s not some
Jordan Williams Free Speech Union There has been a lot going on behind the scenes – but as will become evident later this week, it appears that the very good guidance from the Court of Appeal that local councils have duties to protect freedom of speech, is already being ignored. Speak
Joint Media Release: Speak up for Women & Free Speech Union Today, representatives from Speak Up For Women filed proceedings against the Auckland and Palmerston North Councils, following the cancellation of room bookings for public events that were to go ahead later this week. Nicolette Levy QC will be acting
As the old adage goes, the problem with riding a tiger is actually getting off without being mauled. Western feminists have been riding the tiger of post-Marxist gender theory for decades. It was all fun and games while the beast was eating straight men, but now it’s hunting a
Angela Shanahan mercatornet.com Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years, The Spectator (British and Australian editions) for over 10 years, and formerly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra
Dane Giraud Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is writing a ‘please explain’ to Christchurch City Council and its libraries after the feminist group ‘Speak-up for Women’ was banned from holding an event to discuss a controversial piece of legislation relating to sex identification. “This decision totally ignores the
Green list MP Golriz Ghahraman has managed to offend even more people with her latest round of Hamas Hugging. It was during those Iranian protests that a woman who removed her hijab on top of a pillar was ‘disappeared’ to be either executed or suffer a re-education. Back then Golriz,
Anne On Mother’s Day, it occurred to me that a biological man cannot recall the memory of morning sickness because he has never experienced it. He cannot know the nausea of pregnancy or the terror and love of squeezing a live human infant from his body. The labour of
In words that Jacinda Ardern would surely approve, to really achieve global peace and justice, we must come together to fight discrimination wherever we find it. Especially gender discrimination. Wherever and in whatever form we find it. Thankfully, Queensland’s crime and corruption commission is coming down hard on a
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. Like the coronavirus, eugenics keeps morphing and mutating to adapt to new environments. In China, for instance, the government has been accused treating women “as the reproductive agents of the state, as instruments of
The governing conceit of the left’s now-default ideology, identity politics, is that a person’s identity determines everything about them. Most especially what and how they should think. So, naturally, when one of the left’s favoured identity groups steps out of line, the denunciation is as punishing and
Back in the bad, old days, women knew their place – which meant keeping their pretty little mouths shut and not interrupting the menfolk. Men took care of the serious business, while women obediently had babies. We’ve come a long way since then, though. Nowadays, we’re firmly on the
