History
Sir Edmund and the Yeti
Sir Edmund Hillary is perhaps the last of New Zealand’s traditional white heroes who hasn’t yet been cancelled, un-personed or “de-colonised” — but give it time. No doubt the gimlet-eyed inquisitors of the left will dig up some un-woke sin the great man once committed.
Can’t Come In Today: Embalming My Brother
Douglas Adams once wrote that the past is like a foreign country: “They do things exactly the same there”. The truth of that quip is borne out more and more every time we get a glimpse of the thoughts and doings of ordinary people in the past. Most historical records
The BFD Food Column: Deconstruction
Just like everything else food can’t escape the market forces of fashion and fads. Chefs and cooks are constantly badgered to serve up the next big delish and take us to where Captain Kirk took the Enterprise. Nouvelle cuisine was the first modern International organized culinary fashion, the first
The True Date of the Birth of Our Nation
My columns of the previous two weeks have been my personal quest to make 2022 the “Year of Reality” in the recounting of the history of New Zealand, especially in respect of the increasing efforts at deliberate misinterpretation/distortion of the intent and spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi. This
Change Is the Only Constant in Earth’s History
Like most boys, I was fascinated by dinosaurs. More than fascinated: I was not unlike Jurassic Park’s enfant terrible Tim Murphy. I was obsessed. From How, Why and Wonder books on dinosaurs, I progressed to heavier tomes as I got older. I spent my first holidays of high school
Death of a Dictator – ABC News – 1990
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Time to Restore Reality to the Treaty
As has become more usual in the past 3 or 4 years, Waitangi Day 2022 has produced a regurgitation of claims that Te Tiriti must be honoured by the return to Maori of what was taken from them by later settlers branded as “colonialists”; and that the Treaty is a
The Schvartzes Bite the Hand That Coddled Them
As I recently wrote, America’s racial Cultural Revolution is, much to their shock, now coming for America’s Jews. Worse still for America’s left-voting Jews, they’re suddenly realising that they’ve been sharpening the cultural pitchforks for a leftist progrom in the heart of the citadel
Jacinda Ardern is the Queen of Kindness
Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Guy Hatchard PhD is formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and certification company (now known as FoodChainID) Information Opinion Jacinda Ardern has redefined ‘kindness’ into something unrecognisable. As a result, New Zealand has become a lawless nation. You cannot live
The Challenges of Waitangi Day
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
Being A Good German
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
Understanding a Woke New World
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
What Do Australians Know About the Holocaust?
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
The Truth about Edward Colston Is the Last Thing They Want
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
History Curriculum Sent to the Future
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