On the twisted economics of fandom
Fans are mugs and idealists all at once – we want to believe the best, the impossible- yet in doing so we are often taken for a ride by the business of the ‘team’.
23Apr 
21Apr 
Explaining the allure of a stupid hat?
As long as I could remember, I had a thought that the right hat would transform my life.
19Apr 
Why Māori is like Latin
Māori today often fulfils the role that Latin would have played for our Pākehā forefathers. It is, in short, a ceremonial language. And, perhaps, a way of signalling class.
18Apr 
Domestic violence – turning a blind eye isn’t going to help
I understand why people fear getting involved. But what I don’t understand is why we are ignoring the problem of domestic violence as if it will simply go away.
https://plainsight.nz/domestic-violence-turning-a-blind-eye-isnt-going-to-help/
17Apr 
We must stand against the corruption of the term ‘genocide’
As a culture, we need to collectively address this dangerous corruption of a term that, for the descendants of many New Zealanders, from Europe, Africa and indeed around the world, meant what the word was always intended to mean: the conscious and systemic destruction of their people.
14Apr
Water, water everywhere… but Netflix is bloody stink
I want movies to play hard-to-get. But sadly, there is no longer any thrill in the chase.
12Apr 
The need to take disinformation seriously
It is troubling that the Disinformation Project only concentrates on the misinformation and disinformation of fringe actors but never on that spread by authorities.
12Apr 
Mana Wāhine Kōrero Response to (now deleted) Stuff article Vs. Sean Plunket
Mana Wāhine Kōrero vehemently opposes this rewriting of our culture, our language, and our history. If allowed to progress, this wave of colonisation (for that is what Western ideas about sterilising children are) is the wave we will not survive.
11Apr 
The Doctrine of Discovery in New Zealand: A Fresh Historical Conspiracy-Theory
The persistent assertion that the Doctrine of Discovery applied to New Zealand’s colonisation is falsifiable on numerous evidentiary bases, and betrays among its advocates an extraordinarily uncritical and impoverished understanding of history.
7Apr 
Posie Parker and the problem of inconvenient truths
Deborah Coddington doesn’t know what women are fighting for.