Matt Judd Normally when I attempt to write one of these essays, I try to remember what my English teacher taught me last century and have an introduction, a body and a conclusion. I also try to give articles some sort of legitimacy by attaching a link or two to
Adam Taylor Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre Lancaster University Advice about a penis-enlargement method called jelqing (also “jelquing”) is being widely shared online. Posts advise that stretching a semi-erect penis could add up to an inch in length and girth by exploiting the body’s repair
Nicholas Khoo Associate Professor of International Politics, University of Otago University of Otago The National-led coalition government is off to a fast start internationally. In envisioning a more central role for the ANZAC alliance with Australia, and possible involvement in the AUKUS security pact, it is recalibrating New Zealand’s
Dear Editor, The claim that Maori did not cede sovereignty to the Crown by the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and therefore compensation is due because the colonists subsequently stole the land, is no more plausible than a claim that the Anglo-Saxons never ceded sovereignty to the Norman invaders in
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Waitangi Day was the spectacle we have come to expect. Like a reality TV show, politicians attended to supposedly pay their respects, while radicals acted out their disrespect. Most Kiwis didn’t bother about it and just enjoyed another summer day off work. This year
Harry Palmer Maybe it’s because I was born in an overseas country that I find the Maori ‘warriors’ at Waitangi both amusing and, as the years go by, increasingly threatening in their behavior towards the elected representatives of the general population of New Zealand – the Prime Minister and MPs
Anyone who thinks science is pure and incorruptible has clearly never studied the history of science. From Phrenology to Lysenkoism, Glacial Cosmology to Cold Fusion, science is littered with frauds and vicious ideologues. Certainly, the self-correcting nature of science means that they get weeded out – eventually – but the fact remains
Martyn Smith University of Sheffield theconversation.com Visitors to Japan are usually primed to look up – at the vast skyscrapers, the ornate temple gates, the traditional timber-framed guesthouses. Those who look down at their feet, though, might have noticed something equally intriguing on the ground. Ornate manhole covers in wrought
Augusto Zimmermann Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. He is also a former Associate Law Dean (Research) at Murdoch University, a former Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. Professor Zimmermann is the author of several books on Brazilian Constitutional
Simone Seymour Glossary * revolutionary agitators – all those (by whatever name) who would destroy what is called Western civilisation as it is known today. (Radicals, activists, extremists and seditionists might be other names for them.) * sedition – the act (often sneaky) of influencing or persuading people to disrupt or act against the
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com This very website recently
Lawrence W. Reed Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s Interim President, having previously served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). fee.org Americans, Europeans, and Africans know a great deal about their own past but likely not much about the history of the consequential, faraway nation of
Tiger The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that founded Australia 1787-1788 Author: Jonathan King ISBN 0-333-33855-3 I picked up a copy of this book at a local second-hand bookstore. It turns out it was signed by the author on the bicentenary of the fleet’s arrival at Port Jackson after
Far too much has been written and said about the Treaty of Waitangi. I say this because the great Maori leader, Sir Apirana Ngata published the definitive work on it in 1922. There really is no need for anything else. A copy of his book, The Treaty of Waitangi – an
