Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The recent publicity over Trevor Mallard’s term as Speaker had me reflect on his 13 predecessors since 1975. By far the most unpopular was Labour’s Gerry Wall, who was a pariah in the new liberal thinking Labour Party of 1984. When Basil Arthur
Some time back, BFD contributor Sir Bob Jones caused quite a ruckus with his column cheekily calling for a “Maori gratitude day” to replace Waitangi day. After all, as Jones pointed out, nearly all Maori alive today owe their very existence to at least some European ancestors. Not to mention
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com At the freedom march in Wellington, NZDSOS’s Dr Matt Shelton addressed the crowds about medical freedom. He reads Vera Sharav’s speech on the 75th anniversary of Nuremberg and speaks about the lead-up to the Holocaust. The genocide and forced
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion As we wrote on 20 August 2022, a group of influential human rights and medical ethics advocates assembled in Nuremberg last weekend to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the infamous war crimes trials and inception of the Nuremberg Code.
PA Pundits – International Jarrett Stepman papundits.wordpress.com Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of
Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Huge news from the
Anthony Willy, barrister and solicitor, has served as a judge on four courts: district, environment, tax, and valuation. He is a former lecturer in law at Canterbury University and presently an arbitrator, commercial mediator and Resource Management Act commissioner, and yesterday he shared his views on Three Waters – and particularly
H. G. Wells once said that anyone who pined for “the good old days” would change their mind as soon as they got a toothache. If they had read some of the “medical” treatments available in the Middle Ages, they might not have been so keen on the old days
Daniel Falk University College Cork Since I was a child I wanted to become a dinosaur scientist – a palaeontologist. In 2014 I did it! I currently don’t deal with dinosaurs, but with Eocene individuals and their skeletal taphonomy and soft-tissue preservation (“Geiseltal collection”, Germany). However, I still have a
In John Black’s novel Man Down, the protagonist reflects on a campaign to remove the statue of a colonial-era figure in a New Zealand town. Whatever his faults, all of them the common failings of his era, at least people like him built something. A century later, the people
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Seventy five years ago today in the German city of Nuremberg, 16 of 23 Nazi doctors and administrators were found guilty of participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity “in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other
As I wrote recently for Insight, what does it even mean to be “indigenous”? The standard reference, Oxford, defines “indigenous” as “originating in and characterising a particular region or country”. The National Geographic Society (NGS) defines “indigenous” as “an individual from a group that has lived in a particular location
A few years back, Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown (a Muslim convert) delivered a lecture in which he defended Islamic slavery as “kinder and gentler” than slavery in America. Part of Brown’s defence rested on the fact that Muhammad was a slave trader: “Are you more morally mature than
Joana Osei-Tutu lens.monash.edu Joana Osei-Tutu is a PhD student, Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre joana.osei-tutu@monash.edu When the Taliban stormed Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on 15 August last year and swept to power, they promised to protect women and girls’ rights to work and education
Many years ago, I worked with a young Chinese expat. One day he told me how, in China, he’d been a member of the Young Pioneers, the youth wing of the Chinese Communist Party. Then he came to Australia. Many of the things he’d been told all his
Anthropomorphism is one of the oldest tropes in human culture. Some of the earliest known artworks, from cave paintings to sculptures, depict creatures that mix human and animal characteristics. Even today, the most technologically advanced computer entertainments are full of anthropomorphic characters. Why are humans so predisposed to humanising other
