Through the Gun or Education?
Reformers will tell you that education is the answer. Revolutionaries know they’re lying.
Real Good Oil
In depth political articles for VIP members
This Reform of Road Funding Is Transformational
It makes sense for the form of road funding to move from a dual system. Looking back, it strikes me as somewhat odd that New Zealand has generated revenue from the roads in different ways up until now.
The Pressure Points
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.
Vic Labor’s Secret Pipe Dreams
There is a risk that at least some of these loony policies will survive the journey from conference debate to eventual legislation.
Why They Want (And Will Get) CBDCs
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?
The Death of NZ Culture
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.
Why Do We Hate Voting So Much?
Voting rights took centuries of struggle to win, so why don’t more people value it?
We Are on a Collision Course
Can New Zealanders change their direction of travel? Do they want to?
What Is in a Name?
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.
This Is Silly
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.
16 Reasons for Not Letting 16-Year-Olds Vote
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.
The Winter Winds Blow Unkind for Labor
Gales, rain, hail and no sausages make for angry Tasmanian voters.
Too Few to Win, Too Many to Die
Why should New Zealanders pay the slightest attention to anything the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has to say?
The Ascendant Right and Wokeness
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.