Uncertainty over Covid restrictions, among other organisational issues, has forced the cancellation of the next edition of one of NZ’s biggest and best-loved sailing events, CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week. The event, which would have been celebrating its 20th anniversary in January 2022, will now postpone celebrations
Andrew Davis It is sad to see that out-of-touch, virtue-signalling athletes, including our very own Black Caps, are still ‘taking the knee’ before they play a bit of sportsball. Not only that but if an athlete refuses to take part, they are often bullied and threatened until
Michael J. Socolow University of Maine Michael J. Socolow is the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism
Darryl Betts Beneath the devastation the New Zealand government has wrought on businesses, jobs, and schools is the looming threat to large parts of what remains of people’s lives outside of work. Vaccine mandates threaten to permanently deprive many people of things that make life worth living. This isn’
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If, as activists insist, “gender is just a construct”, and hulking “transgender women” enjoy no unfair physical advantage over actual women in sports, then why are so many people outraged about an inter-gender Mixed Martial Arts competition? After all, shouldn’t it just prove the transgenderists’ point that men
Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American I think that if there is something we can all agree on is that we do not like it when a referee
Melbourne once boasted about being the sporting capital of the world. But it also once boasted about being “the world’s most liveable city”. Then, along came Dan and the CCP virus. Could any Melbournian boast about the “liveability” of their city now, without provoking howls of laughter? As for
Sir Russell Coutts Facebook After experiencing what it’s like in Europe since May, it appears there are a lot of things being mis-reported in New Zealand. The media here seems set on promoting fear. It would be interesting to send a truly independent news crew offshore to report
