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Part 2 I wrote recently about doing the crime and not doing the time. There are no deterrents that are meaningful, especially if the crimes are committed by children: murders, ram-raids, assaults, you name it. It seems we wake every morning to yet more reports of violent crime. This
Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.mthobson.school.nz https://alwynpoole.substack.com/ I could not help following up by contrasting the brilliant freedom of speech masterpiece by Simon O’Connor (thebfd) with the oppressive perspectives of the Green Party. The Greens are not known for having any education
When Grant Robertson admitted that his latest handouts will result in over 80 per cent of New Zealanders now being on some form of government benefit, he said it with an element of pride. It is disgusting to watch this government turn a nation of mostly hard-working, decent people
I want you to consider a certain former member of parliament between 1996 and 2002. He was undistinguished in the House (even by the woeful standards of the first MMP election intake of non-entities), made few speeches (none of any note), asked few questions and managed to lose a
The lawyer for Matthew Tukaki, one of New Zealand’s biggest racists, has hit out at opponents of co-governance by describing them as “the KKK brigade”. I don’t know about you but that makes me very angry indeed with Chris Finlayson. He clearly hasn’t listened to a
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Warning Long read. A Plea for Sanity and for Action As for the tens of thousands of vaccine injuries, including serious and possibly permanent heart inflammation, reported in person to the Citizen’s Database, we’ll leave that for another day.
What is the main problem facing New Zealand today? It is the rather patronising attitudes of the suburban white upper-middle-class towards Maori, where Maori are not seen as ‘equals’ but as an unfortunate group who need to be helped by benevolent people who know what is best. All
I’m sure I’m not alone in watching the Australian elections. However, I’ve paid less attention to the boxing matches between ScoMo and Albo, instead, focussing on the minor parties that offered an alternative to the two big parties. There were two lessons that I think we can
As I write this, the song “1999” by Prince is playing through my headphones and it certainly sums up what must have been happening in the Scott Morrison household in recent days. Had he been re-elected, he would have continued being – horror of horrors – a target for the media
We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are two signed, hardback copies of Nudged into Lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 by BFD author Ananish Chaudhuri. Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
As the washout of last weekend’s Australian federal election continues, more and more interesting facts are emerging from the post-poll entrail-reading. The most obvious takeaway from the election result is that a great many Australians walked away from the two-party system in disgust. For the moment,
As Jacinda Ardern plays Harry Potter dress-ups and basks in the adulation of the five people who still watch Stephen Colbert, not all international commentary is the sort of uncritical adulation she’s become accustomed to buying. Even on American tv shows that people actually watch, like Tucker Carlson
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Warning Long read. 2031 words New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science belong to a group of local and international alliances, one of whom is Pandemics Data and Analytics (PANDA). Australian public health physician and ex-World Health Organisation (WHO) scientist
Is the “Disney Effect” the beginning of the end for corporate wokeness? The Mega-Mouse has lost tens of billions in value in the wake of devastating leaks about its plans to insert LGBQWTIA+ (or whatever the Alphabet People are saying these days) “representation” into all of its products for
LBJ famously said that if he’d lost Walter Cronkite, he’d lost America. So, what does it mean if Joe Biden has lost Jake Tapper? Well, it probably doesn’t mean he’s lost America. As the worst-polling elected American president in history, Biden has clearly already done
