History
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.
Were the ‘Good Old Days’, Really?
Or are young moderns looking through rose-tinted spectacles of high expectations?
Happy Birthday, Sputnik!
How a beachball-sized satellite launch in the bucolic ’50s set off the Space Age.
AI Slop: We’ve Been Here Before
The similarities between ‘AI slop’ and the first decades of cinema.
Diving into Obscurity: Murray Grindlay
You may not know his name, but you can whistle his tunes in an instant.
Will the Revelation Bring Answers?
Trump’s Amelia Earhart Release. Meanwhile, America is still waiting for the Epstein files.
Getting Away With All but the Smallest
He took Gaddafi’s money, used it to make himself president, then killed the guy. All that for the low, low cost of five years in jail.
A War of Visions, Prophecies and Charms
The spiritual and supernatural dimensions of WWI are rarely acknowledged.