John Klar libertynation.com The WHO (World Health Organization) took center stage during the Covid pandemic as the global coordinator of effective response. Questions about the organization’s proper role – and competence – preceded and now survive the Covid crisis. Was the WHO effective and apolitical in its response, and can
Troy Bickham Professor of History Texas A&M University As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there were none.
In recent times there has been a lot of talk in the media and elsewhere – actually it is just in the media and Labour Party circles – trying to paint the new Government as somehow “racist”. So let us analyse that to see if there is anything in it: something which
Ross Baker Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc EST: 1988. Courtney Johnston CEO of Te Papa, Wellington. Dear Sir, Re: Te Papa’s CEO must take a long hard look at what Te Papa displays! I have been a researcher for the One New Zealand Foundation Inc. since its formation
Many things have changed. Everyone smoked. Everyone went to the pub. It was cheap. Attending University was not the financial hurdle it is today. Join the students’ union, buy your textbooks and get a seasonal job during the Christmas New Year break with maybe some part-time weekend employment. If
Ann Farmer Ann Farmer writes from the United Kingdom. mercatornet.com In this age of cancel culture, every year I’m pleasantly surprised to see that Christmas has survived. The modern battle against Christianity is not a frontal assault — but it is slowly succeeding. Christmas trees will not get the
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com What is this thing called “rangatiratanga” that only Maoris have and is the Act Party trying to erase it? Writing in a Stuff publication, a 34-year-old activist named Max Harris said that the
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s the first thing that came to mind after the news that protestors had been abseiling inside Te Papa
Tim Donner libertynation.com For those who accept the well-worn but dubious assertion that liberty is worth compromising for the sake of security, we present, a quarter of a millennium later, the Boston Tea Party. It was December 16, 1773. Restless colonists, patriots willing to go beyond unrest and
Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. For more content from Dr St Onge. mises.org A few days
Tani Newton In my last article, Socialism Saws Off the Branch It Sits On, I argued that the school system is collapsing because society is collapsing, society is collapsing because the family is collapsing and state schooling is a major driver of that because it undermines the natural family and
hobsonspledge.nz Many New Zealanders were angry at the news of an attack on the display depicting the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi at Te Papa this week. The disrespect shown by the vandals to our national museum and the Treaty is utterly unacceptable. Since the incident, the
Harry Palmer I reckon the emergence of the contempt politicians now openly express for voters began in the 1980s, when the British and Kiwi Governments sold off the ‘family silver’ of publicly owned utilities, like power generation and railways. It seems they did it just for the sake of it,
How could any honest person take a badly translated document in Maori from English and then retranslate that back to English, when the original and only official treaty document was produced in English? The Busby document known as the Littlewood Treaty could be the perfect replacement for the treaty text.
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com While staff at Te Papa museum in Wellington ponder what to do with the treaty display that was defaced by protesters on Monday, I suggest that the Busby February 4 document, which is also known
