Back when I was a kid, a boy at a school near me was knocked off his bike by a car and badly injured. Surgery was necessary to save his life. But, as it happened, the surgery involved blood transfusions – which his Jehovah’s Witness parents refused. The boy died.
It’s been a common joke, these last few years, to remind the left that 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. But if New Zealanders are looking for a novel that really sounds a warning for their country, they’d be better off looking at Animal Farm. It’
If Anthony Albanese learned anything from Australia’s 1999 Republic referendum, it’s clearly: Don’t tell them what you’re really up to. The best thing John Howard ever did was to force the Republicans to ‘fess up to the Australian people exactly what they were up to. Confronted
Ann Farmer Ann Farmer, mother of three, grandmother of five and permanently disabled, is based in Woodford Green, Essex. She is a poet, illustrator, writer and pro-life feminist devoted to defending the natural family and the weakest in society from abortion and euthanasia. She has published a number of books
In my series on How Not To Be Fooled by the media, I warned against being deceived by deceitful use of what are passed off as quotes, and against being misled by headlines. Two stories in recent days have provided textbook examples of both – one so egregious that it was
David Jenkins University of Otago David Jenkins joined Otago in July 2020 as a lecturer in political theory. Previous to this he was a postdoc research fellow at Warwick, a teaching fellow at UCL and a postdoc at the IWM in Vienna. His current research centres on problems in contemporary
Is there a more openly, violently misogynist ideology than transgenderism? Outside of Iran or Afghanistan there are few ideologies whose members so often threaten women with violence, or have the police arrest and detain women who openly criticise their ideas. Real women, that is. Not pretendy men in dresses. As
righttolife.org.uk This afternoon the Maltese Government introduced a Bill to the Maltese Parliament that will introduce de facto abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth in Malta. The Maltese Government earlier indicated that it would introduce a change to legislation that would have been limited to
righttolife.org.uk A review of data from countries that have made euthanasia and assisted suicide legal suggests that overall suicide numbers have increased in countries following the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS). The Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford examined data from states in the US and countries
There is so much to unpick from this one tweet. Discuss. #BREAKING The Supreme Court of Aotearoa NZ just decided that 16 and 17 year olds do have the right to vote. Congrats to the incredible movement of young people who never gave up on their rights. Now let’s
Jeff Deist Robert P. Murphy mises.org Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets and civil society. He takes particular interest in private legal systems and private money as tools for radically decentralizing political power. Robert
Justice Minister Kiri Allan has watered down Labour’s Hate Speech laws because Kiwis rejected Labour’s attempt to strip away their freedom of speech, but even in their current state they are not compatible with a free and open society and ACT will repeal them. Preventing freedom of expression
righttolife.org.uk Since Roe v Wade was overturned, 13 states have made abortion illegal, leading activists to launch an ‘at sea’ abortion campaign to provide abortions on boats. According to the Guardian, some states that continue to allow abortions have seen an increase in women seeking abortion from neighbouring
The Hood thehoodnz.com Information Opinion In June this year, not-for-profit organisation The ‘Hood NZ (The Hood) facilitated a case brought by six families against the New Zealand Government. The case was intended to stop the roll-out of the Pfizer Covid-19 mRNA vaccine for 5–11 year-olds. Thousands of Kiwis
