“Why the Holocaust Centre is wrong to promote “exclusive” Holocaust education”?
Holocaust education should teach universal lessons about racism and genocide, not become a narrow political narrative.
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.

Holocaust education should teach universal lessons about racism and genocide, not become a narrow political narrative.

Erica Stanford says Year 8 maths is improving. The Ministry’s own numbers suggest the truth is more complicated.

When AI can instantly generate essays and answers, the old education model starts collapsing fast. The real crisis isn’t students using AI, it’s politicians still pretending rote learning prepares kids for the future.

The Pacific is entering a far more dangerous era. Japan is deploying missiles into the Philippines, Canada is rearming, and New Zealand is deepening military integration with Australia while China escalates pressure in the South China Sea.

When every problem gets answered with “cut spending”, it’s not policy — it’s ideology.

The High Court says NZ Superfund’s human rights policy is unlawful. Now the real question: why were those protections stripped out?
Russia needs a win — urgently. But Ukraine is grinding them down, Europe is waking up, and Putin may be running out of road faster than anyone expected.

If every “reform” makes it easier for the privileged to win… is it still reform — or something else?

The Pacific is quietly becoming one of the most militarised regions on earth. Ben Morgan tracks the moves, the risks and the fault lines.

Turn schools into grades, and you don’t just measure performance — you reshape behaviour. The question is who benefits.