How Politicians Should Debate: Kemi Badenoch

She’s been one of the rising stars of the British Conservative Party for some time now, and I’ve covered stories about her before (Would be nice if a US Democrat said this about Critical Race Theory and A Tory warning for the National Party of 2032), but I’ve finally decided to add Kemi Badenoch as a tag […]

How Politicians Should Debate: Kemi Badenoch

Transgender or Intersex? Confusion Reigns Over the Gender Status of Two Olympic Boxers

On Saturday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a surprising correction after claiming for a week that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting were actually born women and have Differences in Sexual Development (DSD), a range of rare conditions in which a person’s genitalia do not necessarily match with their chromosomes or hormone…

Transgender or Intersex? Confusion Reigns Over the Gender Status of Two Olympic Boxers

Racism is racism

Some Labour and Maori Party MPs have been making appalling personal attacks on Act MP Karen Chhour: The minister has been under pressure from opposition parties over contentious policies including the re-introduction of boot camps and the repeal of Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act – removing treaty obligations from the law. But Chhour […]

Racism is racism

Claudia Goldin with Kiana Scott: The Century-Long Fight to Close the Gen…

The Cancer Society is racist? Really?

Graham Adams writes on the media’s mission to demonise NZ’s health system — Not long after I began treatment in 2015 for an aggressive leukaemia, I was phoned by a representative of the Cancer Society. A hospital oncology staffer had strongly recommended I give the organisation my name and contact details so I did. I […]

The Cancer Society is racist? Really?

Gender gaps

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Dawkins talks to Kathleen Stock

Here we have a 55-minute (remote) conversation between Richard Dawkins and Kathleen Stock conducted during the “Dissident Dialogues” conference in NYC last May.  Here’s a précis of Stock’s background from Wikipedia: Kathleen Mary Linn Stock OBE is a British philosopher and writer. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex until 2021. She has published academic […]

Dawkins talks to Kathleen Stock

The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture

Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize lecture, “An Evolving Economic Force,” has now been published in the June 2024 issue of the American Economic Review. Or if you prefer, you can watch the watch the lecture (with more numerous slides!) from the link at the Nobel website. She writes: Women are now at the center of the…

The Evolving Economic Role of Women: Goldin’s Nobel Lecture

Another gender gap

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Boys are faster than women

Divisive rhetoric chips away at communities

The following letter to the Gisborne Herald appears under the title above and the name of Eddie Tuhaka: Rawiri Waititi’s divisive comments and behaviour against the present Government, calling them a white/Pākehā Government, is racist and unacceptable. He and the rest of them did not complain when they all got their pay increase from the…

Divisive rhetoric chips away at communities

New Rule: Gender Apartheid | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

The Patriarchy Must Be Smashed

And it looks like it’s well on the way to being so, given these interesting stats out of the USA. I’d love to know how New Zealand compares in many of these categories One more generation should see large numbers of these well-educated female graduates rising to high levels of private and public sector power. […]

The Patriarchy Must Be Smashed

Why have the media ignored this outrageous speech?

Read the whole tweet. A Member of Parliament got up in the House and said the Government (which has a Cabinet which is 35% Māori) wants to exterminate Māori. Has the media reported this, with the editorials decrying such nonsensical and abusive language? Imagine if an ACT MP said in the House that a Labour-led […]

Why have the media ignored this outrageous speech?

LINDSAY MITCHELL: Is Oranga Tamariki guilty of neglect?

One of reasons Oranga Tamariki exists is to prevent child neglect. But could the organisation itself be guilty of the same? Oranga Tamariki’s statistics show a decrease in the number and age of children in care. “There are less children in care now than as at 30 June 2019 when there were 6450 children and…

LINDSAY MITCHELL: Is Oranga Tamariki guilty of neglect?

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