New Zealand Greens’ list MP Golriz Ghahraman sure does like to talk up the evils of slavery and colonialism. She wants statues of New Zealand’s “colonial past” removed. She also makes a big noise about supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement, whose central platform is “reparations” for slavery. But
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com Churchill & Son By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound,
Trendy Health Soups Cooking has become incredibly confusing for us self-anointed experts. I can’t begin to imagine how you all cope with the avalanche of alternative and health narrative-driven confusion recipes and post-modern industrial ingredients. Once tofu was the go-to meat, fish, vegan protein alternative. Remember the days when
Roshaya Rodness University of Toronto Roshaya Rodness received their PhD from McMaster University in 2018 in the Department of English & Cultural Studies. Their research looks specifically to the history of queer film and visual culture to explore radical and promissory forms of social being that are unexpectedly revealed by
Michael McCaffrey rt.com Michael McCaffrey is a writer and cultural critic who lives in Los Angeles. He is also the host of the popular cinema podcast Looking California and Feeling Minnesota. Luke Holland’s film, which chronicles the complicity of ordinary Germans in the crimes of the Third Reich,
Paul Rubenstein aijac.org.au Paul Rubenstein is NSW chairman of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. Sydney Morning Herald and The Age – 27 May 2021 “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” So goes the catch-cry chanted by anti-Israel demonstrators around the globe over the
Manying Ip University of Auckland Manying Ip is Emeritus Professor of Asian studies at the University of Auckland. Born in 1945 in Guizhou (an interior province of Mainland China, where her parents had taken refuge after the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong), she completed her tertiary education in Hong Kong
IINZ israelinstitute.nz Tena koutou, Tena koutou, Tena koutou katoa and shalom. There’s a sense of deja vu as we gather here today. Many of us did this in 2014 and many of the messages were exactly the same. Today I’m just going to cover another point as
Susan Short Secretary democracyaction.org.nz This brief article is to remind you that the opportunity to have a say on the Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories in the New Zealand Curriculum runs out in six days’ time. Consultation closes on Monday 31 May. For those who have already made
In illuminating the lie at the core of our proposed new school ‘history’ curriculum: “It is clear that Maori did not cede their mana to the Crown, and that they signed in the belief that it would give them power to govern in partnership with the Governor” We saw that
The mainstream news views media in recent days have been making much of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern basking in the reflected glory of her newly-found French fan, President Emmanuel Macron praising her “Christchurch call” (restricting social media references to crimes such as the massacre in the Muslim mosques). The same
The Big Lie at the heart of this country’s proposed new school History curriculum: “It is clear that Maori did not cede their mana to the Crown, and that they signed in the belief that it would give them power to govern in partnership with the Governor” The above
Antarctica has been ice-bound for the last 34 million years. During the preceding Eocene epoch (56 to 33.9mya), Antarctica was quite a pleasant place: summer temperatures around 25°C, with palm, conifer and beech forests. But Antarctica’s fate was sealed with the final breakup of the remnants of
The adage ‘From the mouths of babes comes truth’ is so old and common to every culture that it even appears some 3,000 years ago in the Old Testament. Lying isn’t an instinct: it’s a learned behaviour, created on the horns of honesty’s somewhat uncomfortable dilemma
As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by George. Thank you George for taking the time to craft such an interesting
