Stanford’s sly Treaty move backfires
National on back foot over Education bill.
Greta's Aid will get through, thanks to the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Ironically unlike past NZ Aid - more likely straight to a terrorist's stomach
The 2025 NBR Rich List once again shows who runs this country
While the NBR frames its yearly celebration of the ultra-wealthy as recognising “wealth creators” who generate jobs and economic activity, a closer reading reveals something far more troubling: a roadmap of oligarchic power in New Zealand.
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.
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.