The Anti-Mandate Protestors Are Winning
The protestors in Wellington are by and large not asking for any paradigm shifting concessions.
There's something happening at Parliament
The story being told by the Speaker Trevor Mallard and mainstream media, who appear to have joined him in fortress Parliament, isn't a fair or accurate representation of what is really happening.
Class is the elephant in the newsroom
The woke see themselves as cutting-edge, but they are engaged in old fashioned elitism. Their fixation on identity rather than class serves the elite.
Policing Protests: Then, And Now
This essay was originally published in The Otago Daily Times and The Greymouth Star of Friday, 11 February 2022.
New Zealand’s media have sold their souls for silver
If a foreign country or corporation provided $55 million to political parties in this country … what would be the reaction of these same mainstream media outlets? What would that funding smell like?
How many people did Speaker Trevor Mallard radicalise today?
I don't agree with these protestors, and Parliament is hallowed ground, but this could have been handled far better than Trevor's temper tantrum has allowed.
Convoy to the Capital
Regardless of if you agree that Ardern’s Government has been oppressive and that mandates should be removed, we should all respect their right to express their opposition.
The Public Interest Journalism Fund echo chamber isn’t journalism
The Public Interest Journalism Fund is supposed to fund journalism that strengthens our democracy
No-Vax or not, Djokovic should be playing
Martin Devlin serves up some unpopular truths for The Platform's sports fans:
We cannot deny fellow Kiwis their Tūrangawaewae
The effective banishment of so many New Zealanders on the grounds that we are dealing with a global pandemic is simply morally indefensible.