Here we are, six months into this farce, with no end in sight. National’s dithering, Labour is hand-wringing and Te Pāti Māori’s still strutting around like they own the place. If this is what passes for leadership in 2025, God help us all.
Suddenly the truth was blindingly obvious. The left doesn’t care about women.
We should not have to walk university campuses and see the oldest hatred in the world dressed up as revolution.
Work? You lot wouldn’t recognise work if it smacked you in the face. The only thing Labour’s ever good at is PR, committee reviews, and getting absolutely bodied at the polls.
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In the end, van Velden’s word wasn’t the scandal. The real scandal is a left so intellectually bankrupt they’d rather debate diction than policy. They’ve lost the plot and, thanks to van Velden’s deft move, everyone can see it.
When activism masquerades as academia: Otago’s crisis of intellectual integrity.
If ACT is now the party of feminists whinging about misogyny, I don’t know who is left to vote for.
The refusal to remove the false post or issue an apology speaks volumes. This is not a mistake. It is a deliberate strategy. One that relies not on facts or reason, but on rage and resentment.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY, THE C-WORD Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): I said what I said. And I’m sorry... sort of (paywalled) Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): When all hell breaks loose, and politics becomes theatre (paywalled) Jesse Mulligan: Thinking about the c-word Vernon Small
I’m scratching my head seeing how aged care workers can be compared to forestry workers, or library assistants to IT technicians.
The house is not just messy. It is on fire. And no one is sure where the exits are.
This is classic Edwards: cherry-picking facts to fit a narrative while ignoring the messy reality of policy-making and the equally potent influence of his preferred lobbyists.
