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How Not to Get Fooled: Picture This [Updated]
Data visualisation is a useful tool which can easily be twisted into fake news.
Is Democracy Becoming a ‘Nice to Have’?
Why stop at eliminating just one layer of democratic representation, when many people wouldn’t really mind if you eliminated them all?
You Are What You Want: How ‘The System’ Really Works
The secret of this life is that all of us get exactly what we want. It is inevitable. But the terrible truth is that, when you get it, you have to face what it actually is.
How Not to Be Fooled: You Can Quote Me on That
There are rules to quoting: use them to spot media lies.
The Cross Benches Beckon NZ First
With woke clowns to the left of him and free-market jokers to his right, Winston’s offer to sit there in middle with us grows more appealing by the day.
It’s a Mistake to Abolish the BSA
If we don’t figure that out, ACT and all the rest of the politicians might as well pack up. What’s the point of trying to rule in Wellington if all the real power is in Washington?
The Case for Remigration
If we’re going to ‘redistribute wealth’, at least do it in a way that benefits us all.
The Peelian Principles and Police Work
No group of human-beings is more dangerous than a group of idealists determined to ensure the survival of their ideals – even at the cost of ignoring or actively subverting everybody else’s.
Politics After The Death Of Charlie Kirk
The truth is, if you refuse to name your enemy and do what is necessary to destroy them, please just go back home to the Shire. You are only getting people like Charlie Kirk killed.
Why Half the World Has Gone South
The great economic and political divide in the world is geographical, but cannot be explained by geography.
It Would Be Better to Ban Politicians
While fireworks face being banned to keep them out of the hands of the stupid, at each election ballot papers are thrust into those same hands with potentially worse consequences.
The Fractal Nature Of True Competition
It has always been like this. Any war, sport or politics is never the full truth. Competition is fractal. There is no ‘bad guy’ and no ‘good guy’.
Mamdani, NY and the Socialist Test
To hell with the measles and whooping cough, what we need is a mass vaccination programme against socialism.
Kicking in the Clubhouse Door
One Nation is poised to upset the two-party establishment.
The Last Generation for Whom Democracy Worked
The Baby Boomers got everything they voted for – no wonder they keep on voting.