In depth political articles for VIP members
When Israel tried to force Hamas’ hand by instituting the blockade, the terrorists would have been delighted. Nothing was more calculated to unhinge the sentimental nations of the West than images of emaciated children. These would be the martyrs that counted.
There is a risk that at least some of these loony policies will survive the journey from conference debate to eventual legislation.
If the world is on track to reach 10 billion by 2080, and degeneracy is the default mode of human existence, what’s your alternative for organising all those people?
When the majority Pākehā culture is spurned and a focus placed on ‘indigenous’ Māori culture and recently imported minorities, the assimilation of immigrants to a national identity becomes impossible.
Voting rights took centuries of struggle to win, so why don’t more people value it?
Can New Zealanders change their direction of travel? Do they want to?
It didn’t have to be this way, but anti-New Zealand activists are playing an all-or-nothing game and it’s one we need to win if New Zealand is to survive.
If it does start to destroy your property, you’ll quickly find out that it has more rights than you do. Excessive tree regulation and tribalist parasites simply worsen the problem, making the pōhutukawa one of the worst trees in New Zealand.
Any extension of the franchise should be a matter of mature consideration. Or, as is my preference, a matter of mockery, abuse and hysterical worse-case scenarios.
Gales, rain, hail and no sausages make for angry Tasmanian voters.
Why should New Zealanders pay the slightest attention to anything the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has to say?
Wokeness is, of course, simply ‘radical leftism’ with its roots in African-American liberation theology and Marxist critical theory. It is not possible to apply the label woke to anything that is not radically left.
New Zealand should be wary of the coming violation of personal privacy and online liberty in Australia, as a private member’s bill from National MP Catherine Wedd awaits being drawn from the ballot.
Despite the unconvincing ‘pro-Palestine’ denial, we know anti-Semitism when we see it.
The Professional-Managerial Class feels the chill winds of change around its privileged status – and it doesn’t like it.
It’s not just popular music that has lost its rebellious male mojo. Film and TV are in almost total obeisance to the ‘message’ stifling creativity. The multiplexes are now home to retreads and rethinks and often swap out male energy for the feminine version.
