Where Britain has gone

Ele Ludemann writes – New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill to define the biological definition of man and woman in law. . . . “This is not about being anti-anyone or anti-anything. This is about ensuring we as a country focus on the facts of biology and protect the term ‘woman’ in law”, says New Zealand First Leader […]

Where Britain has gone

Same scandal, different script: how the Herald protects one MP and targets another

Centrist reports –  In brief NZ Herald gave Green MP Benjamin Doyle 4,000+ words of forensic coverage. National MP Hamish Campbell got 1,300 words and no expert input. Doyle’s social media scandal, with no police angle, was softened by cultural context and framed as a moral panic. Campbell’s ties to a sect under FBI/NZ Police […]

Same scandal, different script: how the Herald protects one MP and targets another

It shouldn’t take a Minister for common sense to prevail

Radio NZ reports: The coalition has directed Health New Zealand to say “women” instead of “pregnant people” in its communications about health issues. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello wrote to interim chief executive Dr Dale Bramley on 27 March, telling the agency to use “clear language”. “Recent documents that have reached my office from the […]

It shouldn’t take a Minister for common sense to prevail

Holocaust in Croatia

Many Eastern European nations are diverting their guilt in the Holocaust by saying that they were occupied. To me, that is like the German Nazis saying “We didn’t know.” Croatia cannot claim they were occupied. The Independent State of Croatia was ruled by the Croatian fascist Ustaša movement. The Ustaša immediately embarked on a campaign […]

Holocaust in Croatia

Mantrums prove women rights needed

The UK Supreme Court’s declaration that give women back their rights to dignity, privacy and safety have led to mantrums that prove why these rights are needed: Rejoice! For the They / Thems have risen. After being legally crucified by the Supreme Court last Wednesday, the trans faithful marched from Parliament Square in London yesterday […]

Mantrums prove women rights needed

University backs down in sex-gender debate

Graham Adams writes – As Auckland University continues down the path of transforming itself into a seminary for Māori nationalists and others with “progressive left” views, it is perhaps inevitable that it would try to force fashionable views about sex onto academic staff members. Unfortunately, it made a tactical error by trying to bully Elizabeth […]

University backs down in sex-gender debate

Bergen Belsen- A place of darkness and death.

On April 15,1945 the 63rd Anti-tank Regiment and the 11th Armoured Division of the British army liberated about 60,000 prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. One of the soldiers, 21 year old Corporal Ian Forsyth, called it “A place of darkness and death.” What the British troops encountered was described by the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby, […]

Bergen Belsen- A place of darkness and death.

Catholics in the Commons after emancipation

Today (13 April) marks the anniversary of the Roman Catholic Relief Act gaining royal assent in 1829, which removed many of the barriers restricting Roman Catholics from sitting in Parliament. However, as Dr Philip Salmon of the Victorian Commons explores, hostility to Catholics continued despite their emancipation … It may seem surprising to some that […]

Catholics in the Commons after emancipation

DON BRASH: NZME can get stuffed – the ad they rejected

Written by Don Brash in his capacity as Hobson’s Pledge trustee This morning, you were meant to open the New Zealand Herald and see a…

DON BRASH: NZME can get stuffed – the ad they rejected

“Coercive Control”: Parents Could Lose Custody Under Proposed Colorado Law for “Misgendering”

Parental rights are emerging as one of the major civil liberties movements of this generation — and one of the greatest conflicts between the right and the left in this country. For example, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled schools can hide a change of gender in young children from […]

“Coercive Control”: Parents Could Lose Custody Under Proposed Colorado Law for “Misgendering”

Colin Wright gives a history of the gametic definition of biological sex

As everyone knows, I adhere to the gametic definition of sex, in which individuals are classified as male or female (or, as in hermaphroditic plants, both sexes in one individual) based on whether their bodies are set up to produce small, mobile gametes (the “males”) or large, immobile gametes (the “females”).  I’ve explained why I […]

Colin Wright gives a history of the gametic definition of biological sex

Judith Butler on Trump’s EOs, with an emphasis on sex and gender

The latest issue of the London Review of Books contains a long essay by Judith Butler attacking Trump’s Executive Orders, particularly 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”  You can read her piece by clicking on the title below:   The piece constitutes good news, bad news, […]

Judith Butler on Trump’s EOs, with an emphasis on sex and gender

 Cultural Apartheid

Muriel Newman writes – King’s Counsel Gary Judd has been at the forefront of a battle to defend New Zealand from the actions of Maori tribal leaders attempting to force their cultural apartheid onto our country. He’s defending the Rule of Law from attack by those pushing for ‘decolonisation’ by arguing that since ‘tikanga’ is an ‘amorphous […]

 Cultural Apartheid

Now it’s Trump vs. the Smithsonian, and a NYT piece about human races

On March 17 Trump issued a new executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” And its goal is largely to prevent the dissemination of divisive or negative views of American history, instantiated, for Trump, in the Smithsonian Institution’s new exhibit on sculpture and identity. Here’s the “purpose” of the EO:  Purpose and Policy.  […]

Now it’s Trump vs. the Smithsonian, and a NYT piece about human races

Equality of suffrage seen as bad by Radio NZ

Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell has a simple proposed members’ bill to amend the Bill of Rights Act to have equal suffrage extend to local government. Equal suffrage is a fundamental human right. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will […]

Equality of suffrage seen as bad by Radio NZ

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