Waitangi Day – A Day of Pride
Waitangi Day will never bring unity. New Zealand Day just might.
Waitangi Day will never bring unity. New Zealand Day just might.
Criticisms of Collins’ appointment as Law Commission president are selective and hypocritical. The Law Commission needs to be put back on track and King’s Counsel Collins is the right person to do that.
New Zealand is not immune: we are just catching up. And if the major parties keep playing the globalist game, Peters will be there to reap the rewards.
Te Pāti Māori can apologise all they want, as Waititi did at the pōwhiri, even offering his “head” if Ngāpuhi thought he had done wrong. But actions speak louder than words and this latest stunt shows they have learned nothing.
Baby Samuel’s story serves as a reminder that the fight for the unborn, for vulnerable babies and for life is much more than an abstract political debate.
No, the benefit itself isn’t causal. It’s the lifestyle the benefit enables that does the damage. When will a future government recognise and act on this reality?
History should discipline politics, not be reshaped by it. On sovereignty, the record is clear – but politically inconvenient for some.
Leaders must restore economic security and confidence. That starts with listening to voters rather than lecturing them about populism being bad.
Was it really structural issues that shut down the bridge march? Or was it politics?
In 2026, controversy markets better than ads, and nothing spreads faster than people pretending to be offended.
Unity does not come from enforced reverence or ideological conformity. It comes from shared citizenship, shared law and shared national loyalty – held by individuals, not groups.
It seems some in society are happy to accept inconsistency based on political preference. Got a far left or progressive cause – then all is well. Have a centre or right-wing view, too bad for you.
Labour’s reliance on a toxic alliance with the Greens and Te Pati Maori keeps handing the government opportunities.
Pick a standard, Chris: you can’t rail against Trump’s board for including Putin while comfortably ignoring the UN’s roster of human-rights violators. Moral clarity isn’t selective. It’s universal – or it’s just politics masquerading as principle.