Rezwan globalvoices.org Muslin, the fine handwoven cotton fabric that originated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is now set for a revival. The fabric, produced from a variant of the cotton plant grown only in the area south of Dhaka, has a long history. Produced since pre-colonial times and
Daniel Goldwater Chef CMRJ Jerusalem Israel Israel has a problem (that’s an understatement): wherever you throw a stone, wherever you spit or poke around in the dirt a little you might find something interesting. Israel has been populated by many different peoples over so many centuries so everything is
This will be the last entree dish in my fishy trifecta. Gravlax is a fish dish native to the Nordic regions and is made by curing salmon with salt and sugar, and flavoured with other herbs and spices. Gravlax, like smoked salmon, is eaten as finger food or as an
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com If modern New Zealand History is to be taught to all students in schools as promised by Jacinda Ardern then the curriculum should not start in 1840. By then Maori had been 500 years in Aotearoa, the last forty of them in a state of almost
PA Pundits – International Mark Alexander papundits.wordpress.com If Biden and Harris had an ounce of genuine interest in “unity,” they would… “The influence of your personal character moderates the divisions of political parties…” George Washington (1789) In 1829, after being sworn into office for his first term by Chief
The luvvies are adither and aghast; someone is creating deep-fake clips satirising she who must not be satirised. Apparently, this is “terrible” and “disturbing”. The “Fisherman’s Friend”, Clarke Gayford, the fiancé of our Prime Minister asks, “Who is doing this, and why?” Created by ‘Genuine Fake New Zealand deepfakes’
I am aware that we are, for some, still in the holiday season, albeit at the end of it. I make this point because I know news outlets, fake or otherwise, must find getting a requisite number of newsworthy items a tad difficult. TV One News highlighted the problem by
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
Richard Baka Victoria University Surfing, skateboarding, karate and sport climbing will be the new sports included in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, with BMX freestyle (think halfpipe snowboarding but on bikes) and 3×3 basketball (teams of three playing on a half court with on basket) added as disciplines in
Hilary Marland University of Warwick Catherine Cox University College Dublin Mad, bad, or dangerous to know? How can we understand the criminal mind and the commission of crimes? Are these prompted by wickedness and the desire for gain or revenge, or by the workings of a disordered mind? Such dilemmas
Classier than a sausage sizzle. Seared Sesame Tuna the red meat from the deep. Seared Sesame Tuna Pan-seared Tuna coated in Sesame seeds. Another delicacy which is easy to prepare, both tasty and stunningly presentable. Seared Tuna is generally associated with Japanese cuisine. The Sesame coating and accompanying Wasabi Mayonnaise
It’s that time of year when the Auckland CBD homeless return from their baches in the Coromandel to live another year of gluttony and excess on the streets of our fair city. The last time I encountered them, one bloke, who is roughly the size of a small car,
Bruce Logan Jane Bowron’s For Dawkins’ Sake (Stuff, Dec 28, 2020) is puzzling; criticism that slips into unintended satire. The “dyed in the wool secularist”, perhaps most of us, should “ignore the Christian calendar” because “Christianity is seen as an affront to most secularists”. It is out of date
Donald Trump mercatornet.com President Trump has issued an official proclamation for the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket The martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170 is a landmark in English history. During the Middle Ages, until it was destroyed by agents of Henry
As one of The BFD’s Christmas posts noted, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is almost single-handedly responsible to establishing many of the features of our traditional Christmas. It also gifted the English language with a new pejorative: Scrooge. Derived from the story’s protagonist, Ebeneezer Scrooge, a “scrooge” has
