Rita Abrahamsen Michael Williams Professor of International Politics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa National Conservatism conferences, one of the main meeting grounds for the global radical right, rarely attract much attention. If not for the decision of a local mayor, the same neglect would have befallen this year’
David Farrar David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders. bassettbrashandhide.com The new Victoria University Vice-Chancellor decided
Toby Rogers Toby Rogers has a PhD in political economy from the University of Sydney in Australia and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focus is on regulatory capture and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Rogers does grassroots political organizing with
dailytelegraph.co.nz VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON HAS DECIDED TO POSTPONE A SCHEDULED DEBATE ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CITING WORRIES THAT IT MIGHT DEVOLVE INTO A PLATFORM FOR ‘HATE SPEECH’. The decision comes after student magazine Salient criticised the ‘lack of diversity’ among the confirmed panelists, specifically targeting Jonathan Ayling
As the Albanese government digs in ever deeper on Labor’s latest attempt to impose censorship (never forget that Julia Gillard tried to impose a government censor on the media), it’s worth asking: why? Why is Labor so especially determined to censor footage of a Muslim extremist stabbing a
Paul Giles Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU Australian Catholic University Knife is Salman Rushdie’s account of how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life in August 2022, in which he lost his right eye and partial use of his left hand. The attack
Christian Toto newsbusters.org John Cleese is the master of both silly walks and sublime comedy takes. The Monty Python veteran is as feisty as ever at 84, slashing those attempting to crush comedy that breaks any kind of so-called rule. Cleese opened up to FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff about
X believes that eSafety’s order was not within the scope of Australian law and we complied with the directive pending a legal challenge. X has now received a demand from the eSafety Commissioner that X globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000 AUD (about
Jordi Calvet-Bademunt Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science Jacob Mchangama Research Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of colour instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image creation
Of all countries, Germany ought to know better than most just how important freedom of speech is, and how dangerous government spying and censorship regimes really are. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that half the country was under the iron rod of the Stasi surveillance state. It’
As I wrote recently, New Zealand police are hot on the case when some petty vandalism sets the rainbow chickens clucking, but actual crimes? Of the robby, stabby, shooty, kind? You won’t see them for dust. In fact, most New Zealanders don’t even bother reporting crimes any more,
Gerardine Hoogland Gerardine is a Roman historian, with specific interest in Rome’s foundation up to the end of the Republic. She advocates that history gifts us with wisdom for the mind and nourishment for the soul, and keenly defends the ancients’ legacy of civic society, law, and government. libertyitch.
She’d no doubt hate the comparison, but it’s hard not to think of Margaret Thatcher’s doubtless most famous phrase, when watching J. K. Rowling stand up to the bully-boys in dresses and their cowardly, creepy enablers in the parliaments, courts and police stations. I prefer to believe
It’s one and the same for fringe minorities seeking public affirmation through exploiting great chasms of tolerance embedded in our Christian-based law but the answer is not to adopt law changes instilling intolerance, but to nip the opportunists in the bud. Trannies did it in public libraries up and
Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com 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. When it comes to free speech in New Zealand, the hypocrisy (or at best, inconsistency) of many
