In a particularly cutting episode of Extras, Kate Winslet’s character wonders about Hollywood’s fixation on Holocaust movies. “I don’t think we really need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It’s like, how many have there been? You know, we get it – it was grim, move
The execrable “Our Truth” section of self-flagellating Stuff exposing their past ‘racism’ is part-farce, part-comedy. Belting out the beaut idea just a couple of weeks ago the racism-hunters cited “One front-page article from the 1800s” which reported, ‘”For an inferior race, coming in contact with
About thirty years ago, some Greenie bird watchers from Auckland forced tens of thousands of dollars to be spent relocating a nest of birds from in the path of the soon to be built Esmonde Rd on-ramp. They would surely die if they had to live a few metres
Austin Sarat Amherst College The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and the firing squad. Set to take effect on Christmas Eve, the new regulations authorizing an alternative to lethal injections – the
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You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Appendix II: THE NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL ANTHEM As of 1977, New Zealand has two official national anthems of equal status: “God Save The Queen”
Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable “right stuff,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 97. Read the
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Daniel Goldwater Chef CMRJ Jerusalem Israel Jachnun Bread with Hilba Jachnun is a long baking bread, traditionally baked for the Sabbath and religious holidays as cooking is forbidden on the Sabbath due to religious observance. Jachnun is very much a unique traditional food brought by the Jews of Yemen to
Caitjan Gainty King’s College London Agnes Arnold-Forster University of Bristol Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high. There are many reasons to temper this optimism as there is a lot we
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. New Zealand is the first democratic country in the world to give women the vote (1893); also the first to split the atom, climb
Stuff has gone all woke and wet and in the process drowned any credibility they once had by apologising to Maori for over three centuries of bad reporting. Over three centuries? That means since 1720 Stuff and its papers have supposedly been unfair on Maori. Hmmm….three centuries? It is
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Tootoooleaava Dr. Fanaafi Aiono-Le Tagaloa University of Waikato Within minutes of news that crew members of the cargo ship Fesco Askold had tested positive for COVID-19, a social media storm broke across Samoa. COVID-free until then, the island nation’s anxiety was understandable. More so when you
