When bureaucrats promote racism: a cautionary tale
As you can imagine, I went ape (hopefully, intellectually ape but ape nonetheless). I charged that we were taking $2 million a year from hard-pressed ratepayers.
Keep calm and carry on speaking
Anti-democratic approaches are no longer stigmatised. Many now embrace illiberalism online, not just in fellow democracies but here too in NZ.
Six Major Reasons to Oppose Road Pricing
The authorities are planning to take you on “a journey” into a society with more surveillance and more taxes.
Auckland Uni students react to Treaty ‘indoctrination’
Compulsory first-year courses come under fire.
Don Brash: NZME can get stuffed - the ad they rejected
Their decision to yet again reject one of our ads is appalling. It’s prejudiced, censorious, and it’s wrong.
What Should We Be Talking About - And Aren't?
A topic even more inflammatory than gender.
TRUMP TRUMPED
That golden era is now over alas as tariff walls are being erected everywhere.
When apologies and silence replace inquiries and dissent
I’m not a security expert, and the Free Speech Union is interested solely in that: free speech. But this is exactly the sort of situation free speech helps us avoid; contexts where approved narratives dominate and where uncomfortable realities are swept under the carpet.
Seymour unbowed by hostile Treaty bill submissions
The public debate shows the 1840 agreement to be a tangled mess.
IAN WISHART: Open Letter to NZ Media on Green MP Benjamin Doyle
Without a news release from the Greens, the media felt powerless to report. Even though they could plainly see the Greens were locking down Doyle’s social media accounts, deleting up to 90% of posts on some and making them all private.