Makeha Paori Racism and hypocrisy are stepping up another level with the attack on voters in Rotorua. The value of a Pakeha vote will be reduced to 58% of a Maori vote. Ardern’s government is justifying this attack with unwritten “Treaty principles” about partnership. This is astonishing because Rotorua
Giles Gasper Durham University Giles Gasper’s main fields are in the history of medieval culture and religion: medieval science and natural phenomena; the making of medieval theology and the understanding of creation; monastic life; the influence of classical and patristic thinkers on later centuries; and medieval food and drink.
Colin Parkinson It is now approaching the time of Pascha, the time also referred to as “The Passover” in the Old Testament of the Bible. Pascha is a transliteration of the Greek ‘Pascha’, which is itself a transliteration of the Hebrew word ‘Pesah’/’Pesach’. The Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover)
Call it the Covid crazies I suppose, I don’t know for sure. Perhaps the vaccine nano-particles are channelling through the microwave across the room to some circling spacecraft returning me subliminal messages, but I find myself dog-tired at 2pm and awake at 2am, a relatively slow time for news
Adam J Smith York St John University In the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, London society is set alight thanks to a newsletter penned by an anonymous writer whose sharp pen captures all the pomp, circumstance and gossip of the season. Fans of Bridgerton will recognise this writer, Lady Whistledown, as
The background of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict… and Oceania. Information Opinion By JM White NATO was established during the Cold War in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. That threat ended when the Berlin Wall came down 33 years ago, yet the NATO alliance has remained in place
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Sahotra Sarkar The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts Sahotra Sarkar is a professor in the departments of philosophy and integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his BA from Columbia University and his MA and PhD at the University of Chicago. 2022
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 When I heard Ukraine’s President Zelensky arguing for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations, and especially of
Deep history is endlessly fascinating. Especially as science opens clearer and clearer views of the world-as-it-(probably)-was, not just millions, but billions of years ago. The Ancient Earth Globe, for instance, is an interactive globe that lets you track just where any particular point on today’s Earth was
Sven Grünewald brownstone.org Sven Grünewald got his Master’s degree in Political Science, Scandinavian studies and Egyptology from Göttingen University in 2004. Since then he has been working as a journalist for different newspapers, magazines, and as a university lecturer for media studies and media ethics. Warning Long Read.
Edward Armston-Sheret Royal Holloway University of London Ed Armston-Sheret’s research uses a focus on the body to rethink the history of exploration. In doing so, his work draws attention to the experiences and contributions of those ignored within mainstream histories of geography, including women, people of colour, and the
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In the 1930s, German medicine and German healthcare institutions were widely considered the most advanced in the world. However,
Steven Taylor Steven Taylor is a professor and clinical psychologist at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Information Opinion In early 2019, months before the world had heard of Covid-19, I finished writing a book titled “ The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease.” The
Forgive me. I am no historian, certainly not an expert on New Zealand history. But having grown up and been educated in the UK and studied European history during my secondary school days, I do have a reasonable understanding of the deeds and actions of kings and queens throughout the
The Blonde Occasionally something crops up that sets your thought processes in action. Yesterday morning an item on television discussing the high number of breast cancer cases recorded nowadays had that effect on me. It set me thinking about the differences in lifestyle when comparing today with 1960(-ish) when
