Anyone who’s ever been a responsible parent knows that you don’t indulge tantrum-throwing toddlers. Even the most progressive child psychologists are clear: “Be consistent about not giving in to demands. This will help your child learn that tantrums don’t help them get what they want.” Others
Nobody likes being told, “told you so”, but, New Zealand, you’ve asked for it. Told you so. You got carried away by your own “progressivism”, and now look where you are. I recall the debate over New Zealand’s then-mooted Bill of Rights, and the warnings from grumpy
The rape trial that shook Canberra may have fizzled to an end, with the ACT prosecutor dropping all charges, but the legal action — and the bombshell revelations — roll on. Everybody’s lawyering up, all over the place. First off is accused Bruce Lehrmann, who says he is broke and broken
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The Doctor There has been a lot of hand wringing about the unbelievable constitutional overreach of Five Waters. It is so over-the-top that they must be desperate to achieve their goals that they expose their hand so clearly. I’m not talking about the requirement for a 60
Mary Hobbs dailytelegraph.co.nz About where people, with metaphorical masks off, really stand, about heroes and what our true priorities are, our position on issues of basic human rights, on the rights of parents throughout the nation, and also about love, compassion, care and seeking the best possible outcome
The most explosive court case in recent Australian history has ended with a spectacular squib from the accuser. All charges against the accused have been dropped, essentially because the accuser is refusing to return to court to give evidence. This follows the failure of rushed attempts to change the law
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
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
