History
These Fractured Isles: Britain’s Drift
Britain, once the lecturer of nations, is now conducting its own final seminar in decline.
The Media’s Mamdani Love Affair: Storms Ahead?
When a potential New York Mayor swims in media adulation, as Mamdani is now doing, the media tide can – and will – turn and decidedly turn in the opposite direction.
The Soldier Who Knew No Restraint
Bloody Sunday is a cautionary tale of unrestrained violence, reckless military conditioning and deliberate obfuscation. Families were left in limbo, history partially hidden and a soldier who knew no restraint – unhinged, sadistic, and lethal – became a symbol of institutional failure.
Why Does This All Only Work One Way?
Where’s the apology to whites for Aboriginal violence?
Eden Hore: From Battlefield to Runway
Through collecting and curating exquisite garments, Hore transformed his trauma into beauty.
This BSA Power Grab
ACT and NZ First have laid out their positions. Is it too much to hope the National Party will end its dismal 80-year record and do the right thing? Or will it be more muddle through?
Is This Another Watershed Event?
The BSA may be an unwitting catalyst for rolling back the administrative state.
History Doesn’t Repeat but It Rhymes
Today, the events are rhyming with the events that led to WWI. There is a lot known about the reasons for WWII, and Hitler is everybody’s fascist to denounce, but before him, there was another insecure German leader who helped launch World War I.
Are Any Peoples Truly Indigenous?
Everywhere, conquest and migration and displacement are woven into the fabric of local history.
