In depth political articles for VIP members
The fate of the coalition Government’s ill-thought-out effort to roll back the cultural changes of the Labour Government highlights the difficulties of acting without first securing the active support of both the state apparatus and the wielders of the society’s ‘soft power’.
The Government should be careful it’s not sleepwalking the country into the final act of a disaster decades in the making.
The Australian experience is a master class on how to deal with vaping badly. The New Zealand Government would do well to avoid heavy-handed regulation of vaping products, but, alas, I have little faith that they will do so.
The harsh truth is that you can’t have a nation if you also believe in Christianity.
Add to this their working-class roots and their lack of interest in ‘issues’ that stars like Swift profess to care about and the reason for Oasis’ pariah status becomes clear.
‘Globalisation’ and ‘globalism’ may sound kinda-sorta the same, but they’re critically different terms.
It is difficult to argue that Seymour’s pithy compression of the three key elements of the treaty doesn’t capture the essence of its purpose admirably.
Settling the treaty principles and closing the borders will go hand-in-hand if we want to embrace the ‘two people one nation’ solution that has been proposed.
It is stupid window dressing for laws that are already in effect and already ineffective.
The very thought of normal people gaining access to primary sources is hateful because it means there is no place for court historians.
Never before in the field of human knowledge has so much been unknown by so many.
C S Lewis’ ‘The Last Battle’ and globalist multiculturalism.
For New Zealanders alive today, much now depends upon whether Queen Ngāwai takes after Elizabeth or Mary.
Christianity was at the foundation of both the New Zealand state and the King Movement.
It only takes a ‘severe weather event’ to remind us how unprepared we are.
If national holidays are going to exist, and I’m not convinced they should, then the last thing they should do is celebrate everything that New Zealand isn’t.
