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Words, not witch hunts

September 22, 2025

We’ve said it over and over: censorship is a trap. The wind changes, and it blows right back in your face.At the Free Speech Union, we’ve spent years defending the slim, uncomfortable space that lets ...

Culture

Drinking (late) from the AI Kool-Aid cup: A sociological reading of the NZ AI strategy

July 14, 2025

Culture

Denialism about the free speech crisis at our universities is unconvincing

July 4, 2025

Politics

Silenced for exposing foreign interference in NZ? Surely not.

June 9, 2025

Culture

New Zealand – the way we have it…?

May 15, 2025

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Culture

Words, not witch hunts

September 22, 2025

Drinking (late) from the AI Kool-Aid cup: A sociological reading of the NZ AI strategy

July 14, 2025

Denialism about the free speech crisis at our universities is unconvincing

July 4, 2025

Silenced for exposing foreign interference in NZ? Surely not.

June 9, 2025

New Zealand – the way we have it…?

May 15, 2025

Sports

Did the Better-biev man win?

October 14, 2024

Are the Warriors the dark horse for 2025?

October 11, 2024

How will the Ins and Outs at the Warriors impact them

October 4, 2024

Will the Warriors fortunes be any different in 2025?

September 20, 2024

Politics

Denialism about the free speech crisis at our universities is unconvincing

July 4, 2025

In a recent column in The Post, Sereana Naepi and Peter Davis claim that ‘the current push to mandate “free speech” policies in New Zealand universities’ – including through the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No. 2) that is currently before P...

Silenced for exposing foreign interference in NZ? Surely not.

June 9, 2025

New Zealand – the way we have it…?

May 15, 2025

John Minto: The man who knew too little…

May 14, 2025

What many missed in the Peter Davis post

May 12, 2025

Science

Why do they fear Populism?

June 6, 2024

When a political leader or their movement is referred to as Populist it is most commonly employed as a slur. The image we’re instructed to conjure is one of a snake-oiled salesman preying off the unwashed, too dim to...