Free speech can hurt: but not as much as the alternative
Jonathan Ayling: the alternative to free speech is always worse. Censorship invariably prohibits speech it never intended to, & it’s usually the speech of the very people it was supposed to protect.
Russia Invades Ukraine: A Crime – And A Mistake.
Chris Trotter: there is nothing clever about Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. It will achieve nothing but massive material destruction and untold human suffering.
Why the woke Left is so rattled by Camp Freedom
Karl du Fresne: They have won the big ideological wars and are on the same side as all institutions of power & influence: the government, bureaucracy, media, academia, arts & even the business sector.
Does The West have the stomach to stop Putin?
Ani O'Brien: The West has self-sabotaged. It has over-indulged & become fat and complacent. It has forgotten the lessons learnt by generations before & systematically poisoned itself with self-hatred.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Death of a Dream
Dr Melissa Derby considers how we have never been further from a world where we “live together as brothers” and rather are about to “perish together as fools”, as King astutely predicted.
Middle Class Marxists Militants
Martyn Bradbury examines the woke champagne socialist class and considers what would happen if they had even more power to nark on dissenters.
The Human Rights Commission have decided to actually do their job
Dane Giraud applauds the Human Rights Commission for doing their job and questions why engaging with challenging people is taboo when it can be the best way to resolve tension.
Super Rugby splutters into action but stars are missing
Martin Devlin is underwhelmed by the first week of Super Rugby and questions why so many of the stars aren't doing their job - playing rugby.
Would the man in charge please stand up… and leave
The Free Speech Union calls on Parliament to remove Trevor Mallard as Speaker
An update from The Platform: Cheers to our Central Otago studio!
We're building a second studio in Central Otago.