If you are going to prattle on about history as a justification for smearing the ancestors of many Pakeha New Zealanders then you should at least take the time to get your facts straight. Given that today’s ignorant face of the day is the Race Relations Commissioner it is
The thing is: I don’t she’s reached anything like peak dishonesty yet, there’s plenty of gas left in that particular tank. Such brazen ‘disinformation’, but at least we know who wanted the portrait moved: Fact: Winston Churchill advocated for bombing dissident groups to assist in putting down
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Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A few days ago, I was phoned by a reporter for some organisation called Te Ao Maori News to ask if I knew anything about a pamphlet which
It’s been joked that reality TV show Bondi Rescue ought to be realistically titled the Asians Can’t Swim show. But there is real tragedy behind the jokes: many of Australia’s unprecedented spate of drownings over the last few years are recent migrants. So much so that water
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the book caused an uproar. Darwin’s was the most serious challenge to Biblical literalism since Galileo. He also made a great many people uncomfortable simply by dethroning the image of humans as specially created in the divine image.
Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists to have ever lived. He has also been more recently outed as quite the boy-fancier. So it’s perhaps appropriate that what is probably his fingerprint has been found on the arse-cheek of a sculpture of a slave boy. A 500-
Margot Irvine University of Guelph Margot Irvine is the Director of the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph where she teaches in the French and European Studies programs. She is interested in women’s access to literary and cultural institutions in France. Recent news about Britney
In his A Short History of Christianity, Geoffrey Blainey considers the question of Jesus’ existence. As Blainey points out, the very fact that roughly contemporary records exist of someone so obscure as a carpenter-turned-preacher in the Roman boonies is a remarkable fact in itself. Historical records, until at
It’s been a while since I posted a nice dessert, so I chose the lemon tart with its topping of Italian meringue. The pressing question is which topping should you use to adorn the lemon tart: the Italian, Swiss or French meringue? I know the New Zealanders think they
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn mises.org Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909-1999) was an Austrian nobleman and socio-political theorist who described himself as an enemy of all forms of totalitarianism and as an “extreme conservative arch-liberal” or “liberal of the extreme right.” Described as “A Walking Book of
