History
Is This the Diary of Jack the Ripper?
For going on a century and a half, the Ripper murders have exercised a continuous fascination on Western culture. Dozens of movies, hundreds of books and even pop songs have been inspired by the 19th-century serial killer. Not for nothing does the Ripper fictionally declare, in Alan Moore’s
Remembering the Pilots of the Vietnam War
Dave Patterson libertynation.com This year National Vietnam War Veterans Day coincides with Good Friday, a day that commemorates the ultimate sacrifice Christ made for all mankind. So it is fitting for Americans to remember and revere the sacrifice of those who answered their country’s call and went to
He Would Have Been Naked
David Tombs Howard Paterson Chair of Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know, however, this has more to do with artistic convention than historical accuracy. Featuring a loincloth goes
Time and Tide Waits for No Man
Harry Palmer It’s been 12 years since I came across a grave in the gloomy gothic-feeling graveyard in front of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth (UK). The museum has been converted from the home, the parsonage, where the Reverend Patrick Bronte lived with his wife Maria and
The UK Govt Is Denying Justice to Thousands of Birth Mothers
Michael Lambert Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation, Lancaster University “For the decades of pain that you have suffered, I offer today a sincere and heartfelt and unreserved apology. We were wrong.” One year ago, on March 22 2023, the then first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, stood up at Holyrood
From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale
The University of Auckland in New Zealand was founded in 1883 as Auckland University College, initially serving as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Its humble beginnings were in a disused courthouse and jail, where it started with 95 students and 4 teaching staff. Regretfully amongst these
Pascoe Makes Barnum Look like an Amateur
Remember Eric Von Daniken? The Hitler Diaries? The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? All of them were frauds which fooled a great many people for a very long time. Many people still are being willingly duped. Then there’s Bruce Pascoe. Pascoe has been resolutely exposed as a fraud.
Why I Don’t Trust the Reserve Bank
The Doctor G. Edward Griffin’s A Creature from Jekyll Island is a book that had a great influence on me. It is the story of the creation of the US Federal Reserve system in 1913. Its creation signalled the final defeat of the people of the USA in a
This, Too, Shall Pass
Christine Christine is in England on a working holiday, gathering interviews and plenty of material for her homeschooling podcast: youtube.com/channel/UCEO Last week we visited St Albans, originally the Roman city of Verulamium. Alban became a Christian after sheltering a priest who was fleeing persecution. He was put
From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale
In my previous piece regarding the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) I outlined how the cultural changes overtaking the RBNZ were also overtaking its primary mission and probably did not, ironically, reflect a good return on investment (ROI). The recent release of commemorative coins by the RBNZ, coupled with a consumer complaint,
The Myth of ‘Right of Return’
So far in this series we’ve debunked the following ‘pro-Palestinian’ propaganda: that the rapist butchers of Hamas are ‘resistance fighters’, the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are ‘settler colonialists’ in their own homeland, the obnoxiously false claims that Israel is an ‘apartheid state’ that is
An Epic Case of Wind
When it comes to the weather, a change is as good as a holiday. One winter some years back, here in Tasmania, we had several months of continual rain, with only a handful of rain-free days. It was maddening. At the other end of the scale, friends who’ve
Particle 101: Manuports
Michelle Aitken Michelle is interested in the relationships between science, culture, and policy. She has a background in performing arts and hospitality, and is a MEAA member. particle.scitech.org.au If you look around your bedroom, or in the door pocket of your car, you may have a cool