The Slippery Slope of Age Verification
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.
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If This Isn’t Anti-Semitism, Then What Is?
Despite the unconvincing ‘pro-Palestine’ denial, we know anti-Semitism when we see it.
When the Panic Goes Live
The Professional-Managerial Class feels the chill winds of change around its privileged status – and it doesn’t like it.
Are We Living in a Castrated Culture?
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.
So They Set Brushfires
What chance do the “progressive forces” have of prevailing in the battle for the future if they are forced to admit, if only to themselves, that the left is losing to the right in a fair fight?
Join the Fun Fight Against Decolonisation
Such guerrilla action is the only way we’ll fight those who want to drag us all back to the era before 1769.
Whole Lotta Lootin’ Goin On
Like most of the bad things in history, it wasn’t just the British who ‘stole stuff’.
The Right Time for the Wrong Left
Poor old Labour doubles-down on identity politics, just as democratic-socialism comes back into fashion.
Free Speech Has Consequences
Now that leftists are facing the consequences of free speech, they can’t identify the inconsistency. I suspect that is more likely the result of political inconvenience than genuine confusion.
There Will Be No WW3
Who could fight a world war in such a context? No one. That’s why there will be no WWIII. And in a way, I guess we should be happy about that.
To Make Sense of Left-Wing Foreign Policy
The reaction from the left has been predictably terrible with #IstandwithIran trending on social media. In an attempt to understand this apparent paradox (among others) in lefty foreign policy thinking, I approached an expert.
Necessary Evils: Libertarianism and War
Are libertarians obliged to be pacifists at all costs?
This Is the Logic of Israel’s War
Indeed, it decided to eliminate not just Hamas, but their regional ally, Hezbollah. Then they asked themselves: ‘Why destroy the puppets but leave the puppet-master unscathed?’
Some Heritage Shouldn’t Be Preserved
It’s time we allowed common law to operate so the non-violation of your neighbour’s property rights determines appropriate development.