Author: Martyn Bradbury

We know that the Ministry for Vulnerable Children was a simplistic neoliberal solution to the complexity of poverty and child abuse. Focusing on rescuing children from environments that big data predict are abusive rather than the wrap around services a whanau requires to keep their child is a cost cutting measure.

Iran is not our enemy. American foreign policy is. 

Dear Nick Smith.

Shut up.

I don’t think our gun nut community have appreciated how the rest of us have tolerated their fetish and that after the white supremacist atrocity in Christchurch, we aren’t  tolerating it any longer.

The vast majority of those who have attempted suicide will of course be broken men. The twitter feminists will scream they’re all rapists, the trans activists will scream they’re all transphobic, Green MPs will engage in competitive outrage olympics to show how many more threats they’ve received, woke activists will decry all males as free speech Nazis while  The Spinoff writers will compete in a tournament of who hates men the most.

Then we wonder why men self harm and destroy themselves in the vast numbers they do. It is clear to anyone and everyone that something terribly wrong has happened to men and our sense of collective masculinity.

Tell Clarke the fish was this big

The lengths some will go to paint Hager out as a bad faith actor and defend the actions of our own troops, even if those actions were war crimes, are extraordinary.  

We have a neoliberal welfare state where the stick is the only carrot. It resembles sadism more than social policy. 

No one is saying that a child in danger should be kept in danger, of course not, but that’s not what we are seeing with these uplifts, an enormous percentage of these children do NOT need to be taken into care and without appropriate oversight and providing parents with the legal aid necessary to have their rights argued,  there can’t be any genuine resolution here.