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How Scotsmen influenced the world Is there a nation on earth whose sons have contributed more to a modern world than Scotland? I ask this after a two week road trip clockwise from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye [...]

Prime Minister Chris Luxon during the election campaign: "You are on another planet if you want to have a conversation about bathrooms and make that an election issue.” That’s me. On another planet.  I want my daughters safe.  And [...]

Very rarely do you get the chance to witness a truly great teacher at work in the classroom. Dr Paul Crowhurst has worked in education for over twenty years — almost as long as I’ve known him — and [...]

Four months ago, I described a speech by Chris Bishop in his capacity as Minister of Housing as perhaps the most important speech given by any Government minister since the election last year. He’s just given another, arguably even [...]

The attempted assassination of Trump should be a moment when the Earth should stop spinning. For America to get back to work as usual in the midst of this type of cynical political malevolence is just utterly obscene.  My [...]

Anyone watching and trying to understand last Sunday’s Q&A where Jack Tame interviewed Debbie Ngarewa-Packer will realise that she seems to be beyond reason. Tame tried to examine bits of her blather and her obvious misuse of words, but [...]

A Call for Unity In the Herald for 7 June 2024 Bruce Cotterill expressed concern at what seemed to be loss of purpose on the part of New Zealand, especially given the fact that when governments change, a lot [...]

Listen to the audio HERE “[I]f angels fight,/ Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.”  -Shakespeare’s Richard the II, spoken just before the King realises that his kingdom has been lost.  Well I’ve never seen a [...]

Listen to the audio HERE At about 10 past 10 on Sunday morning I was in front of the television having my first or maybe second Jed of the day. Hot, strong and black, the way I like my [...]

Listen to the audio HERE It has long been my contention that, well before Wuhan, there was a pandemic occurring that in the end will be more lethal than the Communist Chinese one. A pandemic of infantilism. Arrested development. [...]

The Brits are happy to pay for quality Whatever cost of living crisis Britain is currently undergoing and is predicted to encounter more of under the new and higher-taxing Labour government, it appears the All England Lawn Tennis Club [...]

Ever wondered who or what is constantly trying to block the new Government’s policies? Why is it that announcements by ministers about the economy, educational changes, new health proposals, reducing the runaway numbers of public servants and combating juvenile [...]

Is Labour's spectacular win what it seems? It’s intriguing to arrive in a foreign land on the eve of their General Election. Just why the United Kingdom votes on a Thursday has always been a bit of a mystery [...]

What makes a country great? It’s a timely question to ask, because over the last few weeks, with ferries running aground, air force planes breaking down, and electricity pylons falling over, we’ve all had cause to question whether New [...]

My 13-year-old daughter is a year 9 student at Wakatipu High School.  The School’s Head of Health and Physical Education emailed me explaining an upcoming course on Relationship and Sexuality Education.   The email read as follows: Kia ora Parents/Caregivers, [...]

Listen to the audio HERE I am so old I can remember the televised Kennedy/Nixon presidential debates. I didn't actually see them at the time, but I remember reading about them and being a sufficiently nerdy child to be [...]

The Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Revived Child as he was he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand said: somewhat alarmed at [...]

Listen to the audio HERE One would wish Rishi Sunak and his ilk would learn the lesson that pussy-footing, weak-kneed, soft-penised, gutless, lily-livered, spineless, brainless cowardice has no electoral appeal. The world is divided into two types of politician: [...]

An Obituary for Safer Online Services InternetNZ (officially Internet New Zealand Inc., formerly the Internet Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit open membership organisation and the designated manager for the .nz country code top-level Internet domain. It also [...]

Why is a Council flush with funds putting up rates so much? If a business turned over nearly 87 million dollars in annual revenue, returned a 21 million dollar end of year surplus, owned assets worth more than a [...]

Listen to the audio HERE Last week I played some audio from a pro-freedom demonstration in London attended by tens of thousands of patriots, organised by Tommy Robinson. You heard the patriots jeering some of the most evil enemies [...]

David Seymour’s pushback against the efficiency and value of the school lunch scheme has aroused the ire of tech entrepreneur and self-confessed Labour sympathiser Sir Ian Taylor. Seymour, after originally wanting to dispense with them completely, now wants school [...]

Historical revisionism has always been an indispensable tool of the cultural-Marxists which they developed into an entire ideology with Critical Theory in the humanities. The goal was to destroy objective truths and objective value judgments, especially the latter. If [...]

“As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.” Those were the words of Albert Einstein, who fled [...]

There was a rather revealing headline in the Herald on Sunday today (12 May).  It read: “One in 8 Auckland homes on [the] market were bought during boom, may now sell for loss”. The first line of text noted [...]

Web of Chaos revisited In November 2022 I published on my blog an article entitled ‘There’s Something Happening Here’. Among the matters discussed were two documentaries that screen on television. One was the agitprop piece ‘Fire and Fury’. The [...]

Listen to the audio HERE I begin today with a disgusting announcement. It's by Winston Peters, and was called disgusting by Cam Slater, ordinarily a fan of Winston Peters. Here's the announcement: New Zealand will be making its annual [...]

I can’t remember who exactly wrote this salient metaphor about literature, it may well have been Jane Austen:  “Literature is to the heart what ships are to the sea; a means to traverse it, a way to plumb its [...]

The Future of News Media The title for this article is something of a paraphrase of the title of a book by Gabriel Sherman which later became a TV show starring Russell Crowe. The book was entitled ‘The Loudest [...]

It’s been awhile since I have written. I have tried. But I have not had anything useful to say.  My concern has always been public policy. What should the government do for the best result?   My writing on the [...]

Listen to the audio HERE I expect everyone has heard about Queers for Palestine and been perplexed as to why queers would want to show solidarity with those who would execute them. This queer was even more perplexed to [...]

Former US President Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by [...]

By Alistair Harding [To watch the Fluoride documentary visit here.] On New Year's Day, I woke up at 8 am in a friend’s caravan with nothing to do while I waited for our agreed breakfast time of 10 am. [...]

As soon as the images and news reports of the October 7th savage Hamas terrorist attacks on Israelis started appearing across our various media platforms, I knew the world might not ever be the same again.  We have seen [...]

Listen to the audio HERE I noted last week that we haven't yet won by a long shot, but we're starting to win. "We" being liberty-lovers in the battle against Woke-Fascism. Loyal listener Mike of Foxton took great heart [...]

Listen to the audio HERE Well, now, I was saying, before being so rudely interrupted, that Humza Yousaf should step down as Scotland's First Minister, in the wake of his odious Hate Crime legislation coming into law. [...]