Thatcher’s whanau… and a renewed social contract?
“…we need to ensure the family unit is more than just a traditional nuclear family and even Thatcher endorsed that” – Mike Grimshaw
10Jul 
21Jun
Buggered, knackered, no.8 – and she’ll be right…
“… left and right increasingly mean little in New Zealand and haven’t for decades” – Mike Grimshaw
10Jun
Downtown is for Zombies
“Our inner cities are now for those deemed ‘non-people’: those who are socio-economic zombies” – Mike Grimshaw
13May
Can’t read, can’t write, can’t comprehend – & won’t think…?
“… worrying, most don’t seem to care that they do not know what it is assumed they should or would know” – Mike Grimshaw
24Apr
Some advice from our tertiary history for the University Advisory Group
“there are no representatives from the humanities and social sciences, nor from the creative arts” – Mike Grimshaw
8Apr
So why do that degree… here?
“If you had to leave now with a 3-year undergraduate degree in this subject, what would you do?” – Mike Grimshaw
27Mar
Free speech has a freedom problem…
“too many of both the left and right, of both the religious and the secular, do not want to live in a modern, liberal society” – Mike Grimshaw
13Mar
Echoes of 1968 in 2024? Pocock on the repetitive problems of the New Left
“…the rejection of consensus politics becomes expressed in “a politics of direct action, direct participation, the purity of the will and the rest of it” – which becomes Fascism” – Mike Grimshaw
21Feb
Kiwi populism… and future shock.
“To put it another way, future shock is the sense that your future is being taken away from you. By whom? By ‘them’ – Mike Grimshaw
2Feb
Making sense of the Treaty: The new civil religion of Aotearoa New Zealand?
“Te Tiriti o Waitangi/ the Treaty of Waitangi has, over the past 50 years, become a central element of a new civil religion” – Mike Grimshaw