My columns of the previous two weeks have been my personal quest to make 2022 the “Year of Reality” in the recounting of the history of New Zealand, especially in respect of the increasing efforts at deliberate misinterpretation/distortion of the intent and spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi. This
Like most boys, I was fascinated by dinosaurs. More than fascinated: I was not unlike Jurassic Park’s enfant terrible Tim Murphy. I was obsessed. From How, Why and Wonder books on dinosaurs, I progressed to heavier tomes as I got older. I spent my first holidays of high school
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As has become more usual in the past 3 or 4 years, Waitangi Day 2022 has produced a regurgitation of claims that Te Tiriti must be honoured by the return to Maori of what was taken from them by later settlers branded as “colonialists”; and that the Treaty is a
As I recently wrote, America’s racial Cultural Revolution is, much to their shock, now coming for America’s Jews. Worse still for America’s left-voting Jews, they’re suddenly realising that they’ve been sharpening the cultural pitchforks for a leftist progrom in the heart of the citadel that
Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Guy Hatchard PhD is formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and certification company (now known as FoodChainID) Information Opinion Jacinda Ardern has redefined ‘kindness’ into something unrecognisable. As a result, New Zealand has become a lawless nation. You cannot live
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments With Waitangi Day coming up, it looks as if we are to receive another dose of nonsense about the
Colin Ford inothernews.co.nz Information Opinion In today’s polarised world, it is not uncommon to hear someone refer to someone else, whom they disagree with as a fascist or a Nazi, or like Hitler. Hyperbole is alive and well on social media. There is no question that the
Bernard Moran Bernard Moran is a retired journalist, with an interest in modern social movements. Woke activists are inserting their ideology into the workplace. Their zealotry threatens and intimidates us to self-censor what we think and speak. We end up parroting their thoughts in order to “go along – to get
Do Australians really not know about the Holocaust? That’s certainly the impression you’d get, reading reports on a recent survey of Australians’ Holocaust knowledge. In fact, that’s exactly what the media are claiming. A quarter of Australians don’t know about the Holocaust that saw six million
Like all Cultural Revolutions, the Black Guards of the racial-cultural revolution paralysing the West are long on self-righteous violence, but very short on truth or historical awareness. As Orwell wrote of the youngsters of 1984, “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible”. And the children of Ingsoc are as violently intolerant
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party today welcomes the New Zealand History curriculum being delayed a year, we just hope it means there’ll be a significant rewrite. The draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who declared 2020 “The Year of Covid” and 2021 “The Year of the Vaccine”, has yet to christen the year 2022 on which we have just embarked. Let me suggest – nay implore – that 2022 should be “The Year of Reality”: the year when we shrug off
Guacamole and Tomato Salsa. Photo credit The BFD. The peoples of Mexico can find their origins in the long-extinct Mayans. Mayan mini-empires extending over millennia reached their cultural and economic zenith a very long time ago. These city-state empires began their decline in the 7th-8th centuries AD, weakened through endless
