“Western Leftists would rather Arabs in the Levant suffer material deprivation than have it alleviated by giving up an uncompromisingly nationalist ambition” – @AKADaneGiraud
It was just after seven in the morning in Israel and most of the country was quiet, closed down for a religious holiday. News was coming through of rockets from Gaza so I checked in with my family on Whatsapp to see if everyone was okay. The sirens in Tel Aviv were lasting a lot […]
A recent tweet asked: What sort of murderous savages parade the body of a dead woman through the streets? The answer is Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and current client of fellow-butchers in Tehran – a Third Reich admiring theocratic fascist army that after coming to power in Gaza instantly turned it into […]
“Problematically, the Greens, like their Values Party predecessor, are a post-scarcity political movement, driven less by class than by environmental and cultural concerns. ” – Chris Trotter
“Things took an unexpected and aggressive turn when Jody O’Callaghan, a senior journalist at Stuff, sent me a text with an incredibly tight three-hour deadline to respond.”…
“… it was his personal comments about his experience as a gay clergyman that really resonated. He quite literally has been exposed to the rhetoric that Simon and Damien want to protect, for example, trans people, from.” – @aniobrien
“I didn’t consider I had done anything wrong and I certainly didn’t believe I had breached the code of conduct: I had simply asked a speaker a question.” – Emma Barraclough
“Mutch-McKay asked the two men if the New Zealand health system is broken. Unsurprisingly, Luxon said ‘yes’ and Hipkins said ‘no’.” – @anionbrien
“I have good reason to believe that by writing the following I am risking my professional registration as a secondary school teacher. That’s because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, things are getting pretty dicey in the workplace for supporters of freedom of speech. Why?” – Nick Hanne
“They do not enjoy disrupting the lives of fellow citizens, but such disruption is the only way to give this existential issue the attention it requires.” – James Cockle