Showing empathy to the female survivors of the Christchurch mosque attacks by wearing a hijab was a PR trick that earned Jacinda Ardern worldwide media applause. Some said she should be awarded the Nobel peace prize. Three brave Iranian women have a more realistic and entirely different view of the
One of the six wives of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Dubai’s ruler, is divorcing him in a British court, no less. A British newspaper referred to the upcoming divorce between the Sheikh and his sixth wife, Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the daughter of King Hussein of
The only person in New Zealand convicted for plotting a terror attack has managed to get his learner driver’s licence while behind bars. The 19-year-old whose name is suppressed was arrested almost two years ago after planning to ram his car into a group of people and
This week the Fair and Reasonable campaign appointed one of New Zealand’s foremost litigators, Jack Hodder QC, to lead their class action against the government on behalf of responsible firearms licence holders. Along with their solicitors, Jack Hodder QC has identified several potential class actions. The Bill for the
When the judge sentenced violent offender Marcel Sydney Geros AKA Scribble face last Tuesday he remarked that “No doubt there will be letters to the editor demanding my resignation. Scribble face is not new to the court system. In 2008 he bashed an elderly man, Don Alexander in his bed.
From Facebook A reader drew my attention to an interesting point of view about Ihumatao that she read on a Facebook page yesterday. It had the headline: Two sides to every story. I whakapapa to the Whenua at Ihumatao. I have whanau living in the papakainga, and whanau buried in
Did you ever see the movie “Groundhog Day”? Where exactly the same things happened every day? The hero was caught in some weird time warp, forced to relive the events of one day over and over, until finally, the time warp vanished, and he was set free… into the arms
