Is This America’s ‘Suez Moment’?
This month we witnessed the same pattern. After Liberation Day, the US stock, bond, and currency markets all crashed (and gold surged to $3500 as a result). Substantial foreign pressure mounted.
History
The Meaning of ‘Never Again’ in a World That Forgets
Holocaust distortion, denial, and erasure seep subtly into classrooms, campuses, and discourse. We must remain vigilant – not only out of solidarity with global Jewry, but as a commitment to our own democratic and humane values.
Anzac Day 2025 – A Salute to Some NZDF Heroes
Today, it is you they would have saluted. It is you they would have backed to the hilt. And it is YOU they would have thanked. Thank you.
The Silent Anzac Day of 2020
How could it be? Anzac Day was about courage, looking death in the face and doing one’s duty without regard for personal safety. How had we come to this strange place where all that mattered was saving one’s own life from a trifling threat and it was a virtue to leave the vulnerable to die alone?
Lest we forget?
Aside from Anzac Day, NZ has been slow to remember its military veterans.
The Dam That Would Be Built
We’re repeating the same mistake. Again and again. The ‘dam mindset’ is alive and well today. The bureaucratic juggernaut won’t back down.
Israel Is the Greatest Decolonisation Project Ever
Israel is not just a state – it is the embodiment of the triumph of a people over history’s greatest injustices, and a living example of the enduring power of the human spirit to overcome even the harshest of adversities.
Kiwi Team Covers WWI Battlefield Remains
The small group – made up of NZDF personnel and staff from the New Zealand Embassy – recited a karakia and The Ode, and played the Last Post across the landscape, where trenches have re-emerged following wildfires in August last year.
Is This the ‘Indigenous Law’ They Want?
Spears and pack-rape make ‘settler law’ look pretty good.
This Woke War on Capitalism`
To build a better world, the woke are convinced that this one must first be burned to the ground. They can only be countered by the rest of us proving them wrong.
Holy Week and the Beauty of the Western Canon
This holy week of Passover and Easter, instead of buying into the divisions that seek to sow so much strife among us, maybe consider that this enduring heritage that has anchored Western civilisation for over two thousand years is actually something golden.
Harris’ Coconut Tree Think Tank
Governor, president, or policy institute creator – what’s her next career move?
On Tyranny in the Modern Day
It is to our eternal shame that in 2025 we are unprepared or unwilling to do what it takes to hand the baton of liberty to the next generations. Our negligence in defending it has rendered us undeserving.