A Ceasefire of Silence...
When I visited the Gaza envelope earlier this year, I took one critical question with me and now I think I have an answer.
NZ Politics
Not a Code of Conduct but a Mandate of Belief
When a code of conduct stops regulating behaviour and starts enforcing belief, democracy is in danger. Clause 8 turns councillors into compliant subjects of an ideology they never voted for.
Poll Shock: National Sinks Below 30 Percent Again Under Luxon’s Limp Leadership
Luxon needs to wake up and start delivering or the party might find itself facing more than just bad headlines. The voters are sending a message and it’s high time National listened.
Face of the Day
The last of the true farmer prime ministers, he led New Zealand for seven years and the National Party for 11 years.
Whanau’s Political Fall From Grace
From self-rated 8/10 to embarrassing Māori ward defeat.
What It’s Like to File a Complaint
Trying to communicate with a multi-headed te reo gabbling chook.
Funding the Education for Children With Challenges
Flaxmere College receives $262,720 of marginal funding per year as the highest EQI school in NZ. This is a 2.14 per cent addition to the funding level any high school in New Zealand receives. It works out at less than five dollars per student per day.
Have Some MPs Been Oikophobic?
Many might think it would seem at least naïve not to at least raise the question as to whether the damage consistently inflicted upon a formerly far more stable and happy country has been at least partly because of politicians who may possibly be oikophobic, prioritising their own personal agenda.
Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
Poll Shocker: Labour Closes Gap, Luxon Sinks Deeper
If the opposition won’t opposition, at least the press is filling the void. But for National, this is a wake-up call. Ignore it at your peril.
The Acceptance of Violence in Māori Culture
From cannibalism to intimidation: violence has deep roots in Māori culture.
Study Shows Support Is Missing for ‘Detransitioners’
This exposes a new form of stigma – using the language of the left: detransphobia.
Profile of an Antifa Promoter in NZ
I came across this man-identifying-as-woman a few months ago. Recently he replied to one of my X posts. So I looked him up more and lo and behold - Antifa promoter!
The Gene Tech Bill: Profit Over People
The implications are chilling: home gardeners saving seeds, small-scale farmers maintaining heritage breeds or families keeping backyard hens could find themselves in breach of new bioengineering compliance rules.
Wellington Pride Taken to Human Rights Tribunal
The case most of New Zealand's media forgot to report on.
We Cannot Keep On Going Like This
The politicians most likely to get us out of this mess are Peters and Jones. These two need our support. We need them to have enough clout in the next coalition to force Luxon to stop his lunacy.