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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray was arguably the most popular poem of the 18th century. An elegy is a burial hymn and such a one might be suitable for Labour on October 14. In fact, there are a couple of verses from the poem that might
Principal X November 15th, 2021 marked a day of profound heartbreak for me, a day I will never forget. On this day, a profound shift occurred; a juncture where former allies in leadership transformed into arbiters of my exile, classifying me as a ‘safety risk’. Just one week prior to
There is a reason why the Opposition in politics is called the Opposition. The clue is in the name, but it is a clue that seems to have escaped the notice of Christopher Luxon, the man who currently leads the National Party. It seems that on almost every key policy
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Being useless obviously, never factored into his thinking? Being male has cost him and many other National MPs a high slot on their party list, outgoing Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse believes. On his first interview since quitting his party’s list, National’s Dunedin candidate said he feared that
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org The headline of a recent LifeSiteNews article declared that “the German government funds several Gates Foundation projects to the tune of 3.8 million euros.” This is
As BFD regulars will know, one of my favourite sports is poking a stick at the Boomers. Well, for once I’m going to cut the Boomers some slack. The Albanese government has released selected extracts of its 2023 Intergenerational report: extracts which seek to heap blame on an ageing
Louis T. March Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. mercatornet.com China is in big
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org The Australian Government’s proposed new laws to crack
The “Indigenous Voice” is Australia’s version of co-governance. With one very important difference: we’re at least getting to vote on it, rather than have it imposed by the political class. Otherwise, the same secrecy about the true agenda rules (for instance, the attempt to hide away the
Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz ALWAYS BE PREPARED In a remarkable show of forward-thinking, the higher-ups at Newstalk ZB are reportedly bracing themselves for a dangerously hungover Mike Hosking. The popular radio host, renowned for his opinions and undying love for the National Party, has likely started on a
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Dominic O’Sullivan Charles Sturt University theconversation.com Big policy ideas usually don’t come up in parliamentary valedictory speeches – they’re for saying goodbye and thank you. So departing Labour MP Jamie Strange was the exception last week when he made a case for New Zealand and Australia to
David Rennie The New Zealand education system has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs are race, gender and victimhood and whose only output is grievance and division. I, along with most other sane New Zealanders, feel morally obliged to make as much
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Labour appears to be in something of an electoral death spiral. The four-point drop in Monday night’s 1News Verian poll to just
I can’t be the only one that is sick of the wokeifying of our comic books. From turning our favourite superheroes gay, to superheroines becoming feminist girl bosses or the constant preaching of the woke agenda in the franchise. The breaking point for me was when Marvel released a
