Understanding Legal Hate Speech

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 7, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  5 Comments

I think part of the problem with the Brash, Molyneux and Southern debate is that there is a large amount of confusion over what ‘Hate Speech’ legally amounts to.

The grim reality of climate change is still not dawning

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 7, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  53 Comments

Are we all through with calling everyone Nazis for supporting free speech? If we are, the planet is melting and if you think being carbon neutral by 2050 is meaningful, you are part of the problem.

By banning Don Brash, the Woke Left strike another blow for recruiting fascists

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 7, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  54 Comments

This isn’t about hate speech, this is about the Orwellian power of being able to decide what can & can’t be said. This is about creating trigger free safe spaces with petting zoos for emotional support peacocks while the rest of us are forced to accept it or get accused of Nazism.

Bomb threats, social media pile ons and Miriama Kamo’s ‘race betrayal’ – the Woke Left just don’t know when they start becoming the enemy do they?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 6, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  88 Comments

Southern and Molyneux were a pair of clowns who could have been easily bowled over, instead the outrage olympics of Twitter turned this molehill into a mountain and Southern and Molyneux were gifted the martyrdom they so desperately seek.

Southern & Molyneux: Autopsy of an Abortion

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 4, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  71 Comments

So it turns out Southern & Molyneux were less popular than Spinoff TV, who woulda thunk it?

Peter Jackson has all the fuel he needs to start war with new Government

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 3, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  20 Comments

Grab the popcorn, this is going to be epic. 

ANY school in NZ teaching children Creationism in Science should be shut down immediately. End. Of. Story.

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 3, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  24 Comments

The story of a magical flying invisible wizard creating the entire Universe in 6 days is a fine myth that can be studied at length in a religious class – but that NO WAY should be part of the Science curriculum.

Thoughts and Prayers for tonight’s protest against crypto-fascsists

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 3, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  25 Comments

Let’s hope all the punch a Nazi in the face woke warriors understand just how detrimental violence at this event would now be.

National Party speaking out of both sides of their mouth over free speech

By Martyn Bradbury  /  July 31, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  20 Comments

Does that mean, according to National, that you get freedom of speech if you are white, but not of you are brown?

What the collapse in business confidence really says about NZs entrepreneur class

By Martyn Bradbury  /  July 31, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  28 Comments

What the collapse in business confidence really says is the entire entrepreneur class of NZ relied on mass immigration, low wages and an underfunded social infrastructure – this is why neoliberal capitalism is a failure.

Synthetic Cannabis death spike – NZ Politicians have blood on their hands

By Martyn Bradbury  /  July 31, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  10 Comments

The shocking spike in the number of deaths from synthetic cannabis is a direct result of Parliament scrapping the Psychoactive Substances Act and the continued cannabis prohibition- NZ MPs have blood on their hands!

What everyone seemed to miss in their criticism of the National Party Conference

By Martyn Bradbury  /  July 30, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  28 Comments

What most commentators have failed to grasp is that National didn’t offer any real new policy because they don’t have to.

Hobbit Law showdown inches closer

By Martyn Bradbury  /  July 30, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  9 Comments

National desperately want to revive the Hobbit Law victory they had last time against Actors Equity that delivered John Key such an enormous political victory.

In defence of the Greens supporting the Waka jumping legislation

By Martyn Bradbury  /  July 30, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  6 Comments

Much has been written in scorn of the Greens somehow losing their moral and ethical compass in supporting the waka jumping legislation.

I am not one of them.