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https://youtu.be/FcPJGIO0mLw A View from Afar: In this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: How this week, New Zealand’s minister…
TE HUIA, the “fast train” to “Auckland” has been a subject of some contention in my family.
In an investigation into the history of Israel’s founders, The General’s Son, the author, Miko Peled, born in Jerusalem and…
Because people aren’t dying, it is tempting to confer retrospective competence upon a bureaucracy which, in the months since the decisive battle against Covid in March and April of 2020, has demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude.
MIKE LEE is the closest Auckland has come to a socialist leader since Mayor “Robbie” (Sir Dove Meyer Robinson) back…
https://youtu.be/StCxFx6-ams A View from Afar: In this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: Why regional powers including Russia, Israel,…
I urge you not to adopt the IHRA definition.
MUCH IS BEING MADE of the fact that New Zealand firms are exporting military equipment to unsavoury regimes.
We should speak clearly against human rights abuses wherever they occur. Ethics and morality should be the guiding principles we follow rather than sycophancy to the biggest schoolyard bullies.
Writing ironically, Anatole France said there’s a ‘majestic equality’ in the law that prohibits both the rich and the poor…