Friday, March 28

Politics

Who is Chris Hipkins so afraid of?
Politics

Who is Chris Hipkins so afraid of?

He hasn’t received a phone call from Klaus Schwab and the United Nations hasn’t sent out secret edicts (they are pretty brazen with their nonsense to be honest). The real reason he is so afraid to state the simple truth is that he fears the middle men and women.

Our government needs to stop funding hate
Politics

Our government needs to stop funding hate

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has raised concerns, our Human Rights Commission has raised concerns, and I know a number of people who have written to the Minister and Ministry to voice opposition. Our Ministry officials and Ministers just don’t want to stop funding this sort of hate.

A silver lining is that they are proud to say they don’t fund any other hate – that would be unconscionable.

Against zero tolerance
Politics

Against zero tolerance

In the context of antisemitism specifically the zero tolerance policy can lend credence to outrageous claims about a powerful Jewish conspiracy lording over society. That is exactly how the Nazis manipulated it during the Weimar period (1918-33).

The unreliable catcher
Politics

The unreliable catcher

What we should fear most, yet can never predict, is a ‘radical loser’s’ chance encounter with themselves, in a song, in a book, in a film. 

How New Zealand can begin to leave mediocracy behind
Culture, Politics

How New Zealand can begin to leave mediocracy behind

We may not yet quite be at the UK experience of ‘the university scam’ and the way too many students are conned into believing any degree (‘C’s get degrees’…), funded by deeply problematic student loans will provide them options it clearly will not, but in many ways we are not far off.