“… they fail to engage with the now substantial body of evidence that academic
freedom and free speech are under threat at our universities”
Courage comes in all shapes and sizes. I saw this for myself last Friday in the Manukau District Court when I went to supportPortia Mao on behalf of the Free Speech Union. Don’t let Portia’s appearance or gentle demeanour fool you. This pint-sized Kiwi-Chinese journalist isn’t backing down to anyone or anything. Portia is a […]
“This socio-economic and infrastructural collapse and malaise is occurring all around us” – Mike Grimshaw
“The history is there for anyone not too lazy, or too ideologically committed, to see” – Dane Giraud
“If Rabin was the last sincere Israeli peacemaker, what was Ehud Barak? Chopped liver?”
William McGimpsey, a prominent voice of the so-called “woke Right” in New Zealand, recently posted on X a condemnation of Ani O’Brien’s open letter to the Helen Clark Foundation, accusing her of engaging in “cancel culture” for calling out Professor Peter Davis’s comments linking the Netanyahu government to rising antisemitism. According to McGimpsey, Davis’s comments […]
“Swarbrick came, quite literally, with one thing in mind: desecration.” – Dane Giraud
A recent post by William McGimpsey reflects a deeply flawed (applaud me for not using skin-deep), ahistorical, and culturally superficial understanding of social cohesion and immigration. McGimpsey seems to argue that racial similarity (specifically being “white British”) guarantees social cohesion. But this claim crumbles under even cursory historical scrutiny. If social cohesion truly followed pigmentation, […]
.”..it might be clear what the government does not want young people to do or study, but what is offered as a viable alternative?”