The History of Putting Animals on Trial
Mediaeval peasants treated animals more like people than even an animal rights activist today.
History
The Quantum Century: The Great Year of 1925
For a century, relativity and quantum mechanics have been at irreconcilable odds.
Why They Want (And Will Get) CBDCs
If the world is on track to reach 10 billion by 2080, and degeneracy is the default mode of human existence, what’s your alternative for organising all those people?
The Psyche of a Small, Proud, Compliant Country
NZ was not the test case this time. Ardern knew the Covid-19 injections would cause harm but went ahead and imposed them upon an accepting public.
Why Do We Hate Voting So Much?
Voting rights took centuries of struggle to win, so why don’t more people value it?
A Pox on Pronouns
This is my argument against pronouns. It is grotesquely imperialist. And I say this to wind up leftists who probably think of themselves as Black-Lives-Matter Rainbow-Flag Anti-Imperialists.
Coldplay and the Art of Public Shaming
From the stocks to the Jumbotron, morality still seems to matter.
The Hidden Story of Marsden Point
How New Zealand’s taxpayer-owned refinery was lost to global neoliberalism.
The Étaples Uprising in 1917
The hidden revolt of the working-class soldier, the war within the war and the truth they buried.
Why We’re All Sceptics Now
Can trust be rebuilt? Maybe, but not with apologies, hashtags and press releases. Because if the people who follow the rules lose faith in the rules and the establishment, what’s left? Nothing but the sceptics. And we’re not wrong.
The Many Are Watching While the Few Are Being Worshipped
A classroom coup in New Zealand. NZ’s education system risks collapse as identity politics replaces shared learning. When schools elevate the few, the many silently walk away.