Utopia, you are standing in it!

In September 2008 during the year of the last financial collapse, Peter Cappelli authored an article titled The Trouble with HR in the Harvard Business Review. In it, he argued that HR departments had lost their relevance and credibility in many organisations, asserting the need for them to reinvent themselves. Cappelli claimed that HR departments…

Dr Michael John Schmidt: Poisoned pill – Te Whatu Ora

Religious policy In the month following her accession, Mary issued a proclamation that she would not compel any of her subjects to follow her religion, but by the end of September 1553, leading Protestant churchmen—including Thomas Cranmer, John Bradford, John Rogers, John Hooper, and Hugh Latimer—were imprisoned. Mary’s first Parliament, which assembled in early October, […]

November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part VI.

From the latest American Economic Review: A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150 years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and therefore do not account for the limited opportunities available for nonwhite families. Moreover, historical data measure the father’s status […]

Perhaps intergenerational mobility has not declined in the United States after all

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