A guest post by a reader: I regret to inform you that cultural reports are back, wearing a wig and a false mustache. In March 2024, Parliament passed the Legal Services Amendment Bill, which abolished public legal aid funding for section 27 reports, also known as “cultural reports”. Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith stated: “This will […]
Guest Post: Cultural reports: You didn’t think you’d get rid of me that easily, did you?
Guest Post: Cultural reports: You didn’t think you’d get rid of me that easily, did you?
24 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Where Britain has gone
23 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, sports economics Tags: sex discrimination
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
23 Apr 2025 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - New Zealand
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
23 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, gender, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
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
22 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Croatia, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
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
22 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, property rights Tags: free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
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
From Refineries to Fiefdoms: Is Newsom Orchestrating a State Takeover of California’s Oil Industry?
22 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: California, climate activists, regressive left
California’s refining capacity is collapsing—not because demand has disappeared, but because it is being deliberately dismantled by regulatory fiat. The recent announcement that Valero Energy will idle or shutter its Benicia refinery by 2026 isn’t just a business decision. It’s the calculated result of a hostile policy environment designed to punish traditional energy producers until they either leave the state or fall into government hands.
From Refineries to Fiefdoms: Is Newsom Orchestrating a State Takeover of California’s Oil Industry?
“When Must We Kill Them?”: George Mason Student Captures the Growing Violent Ideation on the Left
21 Apr 2025 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
There is controversy at George Mason University after Nicholas Decker, an economics PhD student published an essay asking “When Must We Kill Them?” in reference to Trump and his supporters. The essay captures the growing violent ideation on the left, fueled by rage rhetoric from politicians and commentators. The danger is that, for some on […]
“When Must We Kill Them?”: George Mason Student Captures the Growing Violent Ideation on the Left
University backs down in sex-gender debate
21 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech. academic bias, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
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
The Supreme Court Halts Venezuelan Deportations as the Fourth Circuit Upholds Garcia Order
20 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of immigration
It has been a busy 24 hours in the courts. Early this morning, the Supreme Court blocked (for now) the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act, a law only used three times before in our history. At the same time, the United States Court of Appeals for the […]
The Supreme Court Halts Venezuelan Deportations as the Fourth Circuit Upholds Garcia Order
Home detention for vicious assault
19 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
The Herald reports: A teen who took part in a violent and unprovoked street attack, king hitting one of his victims, has narrowly avoided jail after a judge ruled it would not be the “just” outcome. Just? Just for who? The victim? Hunia did the following: So this was not a moment of madness, or […]
Home detention for vicious assault
Treaty Principles Bill dropped, but broader reform agenda gains momentum
18 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA
Centrist reports – The Treaty Principles Bill has been dropped, but the government is pursuing incremental reform by reviewing and potentially amending Treaty clauses in 28 existing laws. FACTS Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says the aim is to make Treaty references clearer, more proportionate, and legally consistent Critics warn the reforms will “water down” Māori […]
Treaty Principles Bill dropped, but broader reform agenda gains momentum
The Execution of Rudolf Höss: Justice at the End of a Dark Road
17 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust. World War II
On April 16, 1947, in the shadow of Auschwitz—a name now synonymous with human suffering and industrial-scale murder—justice was served in one of the most symbolically powerful moments of the post-war reckoning. Rudolf Höss, the former commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, was executed by hanging. The […]
The Execution of Rudolf Höss: Justice at the End of a Dark Road
“No One is Above the Law”: New York AG Letitia James Accused of Alleged Mortgage Fraud
17 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, Internet
Below is my column in the New York Post on the criminal referral of a mortgage fraud case against New York Attorney General Letitia James. After her scorched-earth campaign against Trump, the irony of the allegations is stunning. If James were to move from prosecutor to perp, her own words may come back to haunt […]
“No One is Above the Law”: New York AG Letitia James Accused of Alleged Mortgage Fraud
Bergen Belsen- A place of darkness and death.
16 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
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.
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