“…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
“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
“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
“… identity politics is the restriction of collective identity rather than as often expressed, its expansion.” – Mike Grimshaw.
“I want to raise what I know will be a controversial option: Is it time for a new, 21st-century Congress of Cultural Freedom?” – Mike Grimshaw
“With a change in Government, it is time for the centre left and left in society and the universities to ensure that free speech and academic freedom is supported and engaged with” – Mike Grimshaw
“Consider the addition of the word’ white’ to the abuse. Suddenly a word, ‘cunt’, that is I would suggest vulgar but usually acceptable on the rugby field, becomes a part of what we can term a phrase of controversy.” – Mike Grimshaw
“The tertiary system is failing because the school system feeding into it is failing, and the school system is failing because society is failing.” – Mike Grimshaw
“As the late great Christopher Hitchens stated, the important thing is not to teach people what to think but rather teach people how to think.” – Mike Grimshaw
“This analysis is why D&W have labelled the 2023 election ‘the anti-election’, because leadership seems to be expressed, exercised and experienced in negative terms” – Mike Grimshaw