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 With Waitangi Day coming up, it looks as if we are to receive another dose of nonsense about
Colin Ford inothernews.co.nz Information Opinion In today’s polarised world, it is not uncommon to hear someone refer to someone else, whom they disagree with as a fascist or a Nazi, or like Hitler. Hyperbole is alive and well on social media. There is no question that the
Bernard Moran Bernard Moran is a retired journalist, with an interest in modern social movements. Woke activists are inserting their ideology into the workplace. Their zealotry threatens and intimidates us to self-censor what we think and speak. We end up parroting their thoughts in order to “go along – to
Do Australians really not know about the Holocaust? That’s certainly the impression you’d get, reading reports on a recent survey of Australians’ Holocaust knowledge. In fact, that’s exactly what the media are claiming. A quarter of Australians don’t know about the Holocaust that saw six million
Like all Cultural Revolutions, the Black Guards of the racial-cultural revolution paralysing the West are long on self-righteous violence, but very short on truth or historical awareness. As Orwell wrote of the youngsters of 1984, “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible”. And the children of Ingsoc are as
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party today welcomes the New Zealand History curriculum being delayed a year, we just hope it means there’ll be a significant rewrite. The draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who declared 2020 “The Year of Covid” and 2021 “The Year of the Vaccine”, has yet to christen the year 2022 on which we have just embarked. Let me suggest – nay implore – that 2022 should be “The Year of Reality”: the year when we shrug off
Guacamole and Tomato Salsa. Photo credit The BFD. The peoples of Mexico can find their origins in the long-extinct Mayans. Mayan mini-empires extending over millennia reached their cultural and economic zenith a very long time ago. These city-state empires began their decline in the 7th-8th centuries
JP Sears awakenwithjp.com If you ever wondered what you would do during the civil rights era that sought to end segregation from society or during Nazi Germany, what you are doing today is the answer to that question. We can look back at Germany in the 1930s and see
It’s a curious thing: the people most obsessed with climate change seem to have the most trouble grasping the concept of “change”. They seem to live with a peculiar delusion that the climate of the middle 1960s — just coincidentally, the heyday of the Boomer Establishment’s youth — is somehow
When animated comedy Over the Hedge wanted to emblemise modern fast-food culture, it chose “the chip”. Granted, the chip in that instance was a corn chip, but a major plot device of the film is the protagonist’s obsession with a particular brand of potato chip. The origin of
Vas is das? Kugel is another one of those long-cooking Sabbath dishes from the Jewish kitchen, combined with eggs and in some cases caramel, and overcooked. Kugel is more often dark brown in colour, compressed and squished in texture. At first glance kugel is wholly unappetising, to say the
