Pilger’s incredible critique of the Assange issues makes for fearful reading. If Jacinda wishes to stride the International stage with real purpose and mana, she should offer Assange asylum as a direct stance of independence for NZ and as a defender of journalism and free speech.
The redefining of hate speech laws is a debate we desperately need to have because the hate speech is coming.
We need a publicly accessible virtual town hall to debate issues like adults, not trigger free safe space echo chambers. Without that the electorate will continue to remain one dominated by the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind.
As NZ wrestles with hate speech vs free speech, the anti-Māori crowd have maliciously attempted to force themselves divisively into the debate…
The Comedy Fest is back and nothing helps give insight to where a culture presently is quite as perfectly as comedy. What is allowed to be joked about and what we consider humourless are all experimented upon in real time on a stage. There are at times nothing quite so dangerous as comedians.
Jordan Peele’s latest horror offering of ‘Us’ suggests his skills as a movie maker and social critic have merged to a new high that manages to eclipse his previous horror romp ‘Get out’, which is no easy feat because ‘Get out’ was brilliant.
If NZ Politics were Harry Potter…
If the SIS & GCSB can co-opt the reasoning of the woke for an enormous budget and surveillance power upgrade, our tiny wee country will finally have a deep state worthy of the name.
Look, I feel for the homosexual community being offended & hurt by Israel Folau’s Instagram post, but spare a thought for all the drunks, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists & idolators out there who he also doomed to hellfire? Israel’s dinner parties must be very dull.
No one else managed to expose state secrets like he did, their wrath will be unforgiving