As we navigate what is likely the endgame of the China virus pandemic (oh boy, let’s see if that sentence comes back to haunt me!), it is worth trying to grasp a little bit of perspective. We live, after all, in a culture with no memory: anything that happened
“Home cooked” denotes healthy, tasty and honest food, the kind of food that Mum or Granny used to make. No tricks, no risky flavours, no verve or culinary pirouettes. Simple meat and three veg kind of food, and when you are busy with other things an easy option to fall
Emily Zobel Marshall Leeds Beckett University Emily is an academic, author and poet. She is of Martinican and British heritage and has lived in Leeds for twenty years. She is a Reader in Postcolonial Literature at the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. “Cunning better than strong” is
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is an Auckland-based writer and political analyst. He is currently the Chair of Progress New Zealand, an independent research and advocacy group established to promote democratic citizenship and social cohesion. A former member of
Just when you think you’ve heard the most ridiculous Covid fear-porn you could imagine, along comes some attention-grabber, shrieking, “Hold my mask!” Add a good dash of identity politics, and you’ve got a made-for-NZ-MSM headline. Delta could be as deadly as the Spanish
Don Brash hobsonspledge.nz To: Cheryl de la Rey Subject: Your press statement announcing the University’s Office of Treaty Partnership Dear Dr de la Rey, As a graduate of the University of Canterbury, I was dismayed – indeed, horrified would not be too strong a word – to read your press
As well as stopping the pernicious plot by stealth to convert the governance of New Zealand to 50% control by a coterie of Maori extremists and their Pakeha Marxist followers under their He Puapua Plan, we need to call a halt to changing the name of our country to Aotearoa,
You’re a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech … Well, you’ll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day The Dead Kennedys, “Holiday in Cambodia” As Orwell wrote, “All left-wing parties in the highly industrialised countries are at bottom
Bruce Moon hobsonspledge.nz Bruce Moon is a former member of the staff of the University of Canterbury. He was a member of the Professorial Board with the same status (reader) as an associate professor. Information Opinion “No historian, however detached, works without an ideological framework.” Charles Freeman, “Egypt. Greece
Science is never “settled”. No matter how certain something might seem, its certainty is merely provisional. Whether it’s that everything in physics has already been discovered (as Lord Kelvin is apocryphally, but falsely, said to have proclaimed) or that a meteor impact wiped out the dinosaurs. However likely the
Obituaries usually follow a fairly standard template: sadly missed, beloved husband/wife/father/mother/child, and so on. Round it up with a few homely anecdotes, and you’re done. Then there are the people who just say, “f- that: I’m telling it like it was!” For instance, the
Like the rings of Saturn, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of the most famous sights in the solar system. How long the Spot has existed is unknown, but observations from as early as the 17th century indicate that it may be at least nearly 400 years old. But
Pâte à Choux /Choux Pastry I find myself delving into more traditional recipes, many from my memories of the 1970s. While a lot of these foods never really went out of fashion in the patisseries and eateries of Europe, the fusion and molecular cooking that have swept the world more
Marc Grey In previous articles, we have covered nuclear reactor designs, accidents and the mechanics of nuclear reaction physics. However, the way the nuclear industry got started was in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, not to provide nuclear power! In this article, we look at how the first nuclear weapons
Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture Information Opinion Last week I wrote about the significance of Te Reo as a language in New Zealand. There is also no doubt that Maori culture should be valued and cherished in New Zealand. But it should come
