By 8 am Auckland was in gridlock. At 9 am when most retailers would open, Queen St was in turmoil without those parking spaces. Most motorists were blaming the motorcyclists, as this deliberate move to bring Auckland CBD to its knees was kept reasonably quiet so no media warning of this protest parking strategy had been published.
We are not required to hate our own country to understand its past. And we are certainly not obliged to pretend that history ends in grievance rather than citizenship under a common law.
Robert Duvall lit up 1970s American cinema – and kept going.
Within this sex-triumphant climate can we really pretend to shock concerning Epstein, his brutal cronies, the rape gangs and their state-affiliated allies?
“You will be told you can’t complain because you’re Islamophobic.”
President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin should be applauded for actually following the science and respecting the rule of law – things that have been too often ignored when it comes to climate.
At its core, this is not about Muslims at all. It is about how a governing party chooses to organise society. Does it treat citizens as individuals under a shared civic contract, or as demographic blocs to be structured, managed and electorally harvested?
