Utopia, you are standing in it!

1 News reports: Christopher Luxon says he was told by some Kiwis on the campaign trail they “didn’t know” the difference between Waka Kotahi, Te Pūkenga and Te Whatu Ora. Speaking to Breakfast, the incoming prime minister said having English first on government agencies will “make sure” people “understand” what agencies are and what they…

DAVID FARRAR: Luxon is absolutely right

TV3 political editor Jenna Lynch was among the corps of political reporters who bridled, when Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters told them what he thinks of them (which is not much). She was unabashed about letting her audience know she had bridled. More usefully, she drew attention to something which rankles the combative Peters. It’s […]

Treaty pledge to secure funding is contentious – but is Peters being pursued by a lynch mob after making bribery claims?

I never thought I’d live to see the day where a headline like this not only appears, but isn’t that unusual.  And the pro-Israel action that got this teacher into trouble is pretty innocuous! The author and owner of the website, Jonathan Turley, is a professor at George Washington University Law School, a prolific author,…

More scary antisemitism in NYC high-school students

Mosab Hassan Yousef is a Palestinian who worked undercover for Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. e was born in Ramallah, a city 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a Hamas co-founder. The title is taken from a speech he gave a few weeks ago at […]

Those who have courage take responsibility, they don’t blame.

A previous column looked at Winston Peters biographically. This one takes a closer look at his record as a minister, especially his policy record. Brian Easton writes – 1990-1991: Minister of Māori Affairs. Few remember Ka Awatea as a major document on the future of Māori policy; there is not even an entry in Wikipedia. The impression […]

BRIAN EASTON:  Peters as Minister

leftist ugly shriveled autistic cult leader who turns out to be a raving Anti- Semite. Why am I not surprised? Two years ago the idiot Anglican Dean of Bunbury Cathedral used a video address by her as a sermon. I no longer attend.

Just Another Nasty Evil

‘Dear friend, of course I remember. Wasn’t it just yesterday? Yesterday, but a century ago. In this city, but on a planet that is now far away. How all these things get confused: times, places, the world broken in pieces, not to be glued back together. Only the memory…’ (T.K.-B., a former courtier in the […]

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński (1978)

Like most people, I was getting heartily sick of all the time being wasted over the coalition negotiations. During the first three weeks Winston grinned like a Cheshire cat, certain he’d be needed; Chris Luxon wasted time in lifting the phone to Winston and, still in campaign mode, visited the Chelsea Sugar Works rather than…

MICHAEL BASSETT: A NEW MINISTRY – AT LAST

Coleman Hughes has published this piece in two places: on his own Substack site, and at the Free Press. Since I first noticed it at the latter site, I’ll put the screenshot for the FP version below (click it to read), but you can also access it on his own site here (be sure to […]

Coleman Hughes attacks comparisons between Palestine and the struggle of blacks for freedom in South Africa and America

A hugely significant gain for ACT is somewhat camouflaged by legislative jargon. Under the heading ‘Oranga Tamariki’ ACT’s coalition agreement contains the following item: • Remove Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 According to Oranga Tamariki: “Section 7AA is our practical commitment to the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi.”…

LINDSAY MITCHELL: Oranga Tamariki faces major upheaval under coalition agreement

This month, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation has called upon the Michigan bar to investigate and sanction Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her comments on Gaza and Israel. While I have been critical of Tlaib over her rhetoric and claims on the Hamas attack and later war, I believe that such sanctions would be inimical to […]

No, Rashida Tlaib Should Not Be Sanctioned by the Michigan Bar

Wilders won resoundingly in the Netherlands, and polled much stronger after October 7.  Yesterday there were anti-immigrant riots in Dublin, typically a relatively open city (most likely an Algerian migrant stabbed several people).  The “far right” party in Austria is very popular, AfD is doing well in Germany, and France could flip.  Italy already is […]

The Geert Wilders victory, and more