Information Opinion Freelance science and technology writer Peter Griffin wants us to question anti-vaccine information and climate change (just those that deny it of course), but only if we come to the conclusions he wants us to. [Fire and Fury is] the story of how a disparate group of Kiwis
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
Alon Beer brownstone.org Alon Beer is director general of SID Israel, Society for International Development Suddenly a person wakes up and discovers that he is about to be dismissed from a position to which he had been selected due to private tweets that raised doubts over the COVID policies
What does Ardern’s Government do when people stop praising it and start to complain about the high cost of living? Naturally, they say, ”Look over there!” It’s never their fault. They knew in 2018 that food products made here were cheaper to buy in Australia. Why didn’t
There’s a lot of talk about book-banning, amongst the chattering classes these days. But are books really being banned? And who’s doing it? Well, for a start, Germany’s banning books again — and they’re banning ones that even the Nazis didn’t dare. There’s more than
Jessica Corbett commondreams.org Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Human rights advocates around the world this week called on Saudi Arabia to free Salma al-Shehab after she was sentenced to 34 years in prison and a 34-year travel ban for tweets criticizing the kingdom’s repression
Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. Information Opinion Health has been hijacked for
By now, you’re probably well aware of the horrific attack on author Salman Rushdie. Most of you won’t have to struggle to fathom the motive of Hadi Matar, 24, the would-be murderer. In which case, you’re doing better than the New York Times. Just a heads-up for
Information Opinion Settler/Coloniser, we are your worst nightmare. And we are coming to a university near you! Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM. “Settler/Coloniser, we are your worst nightmare. And we are coming to a university near you!” So tweeted one Professor
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. Hardly a day goes by without some viral international incident reminding us why we’re so lucky to have the First Amendment. The latest such lunacy comes courtesy of the United
Appointing Willie Jackson as Minister of Broadcasting is akin to employing a fox to guard the henhouse! Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM. Early in July legislation to create a new public media entity was introduced into Parliament by the recently-appointed Minister of Broadcasting
Here’s a question for you, New Zealand: what’s even the bloody point of your Bill of Rights? It is, after all, supposed to set out the rights and fundamental freedoms of New Zealanders – yet, its own text states that it cannot actually repeal, revoke or make ineffective any
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. It is becoming a drearily familiar experience for me to receive emails from social media platforms informing me that my content has been removed for violating “community guidelines”
familyfirst.org.nz *This post was written by Family First staff writers. This is a shocking case of a woman being sacked for declaring her Christian beliefs outside of the workplace, in her own private time. For 13 years Maureen Martin had been an exemplary employee of London & Quadrant
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. Have you noticed the ways in which New Zealand’s mainspring seems gradually to be unwinding with Jacinda Ardern’
Once upon a time, universities were places where students went to learn how to think and to open their minds. Where ideas could be debated openly and freely. Nowadays, students go to learn what to think and to have their minds closed off and cauterised. Many students are completing a
