Friday, April 30, 2021

A familiar name in The Spectator

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The latest issue of The Spectator – or to be more accurate, the issue I’m currently reading, which is the one of April 17 – contains a poem...
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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Kowtowing to censorious "stakeholders"

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Oh, the irony. The Featherston Booktown Festival, to be held on the weekend of May 6-9, will include a panel discussion on cancel culture,...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Best in show - really? Des Gorman on New Zealand's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic

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If New Zealand were Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Professor Des Gorman would have had the Alexei Navalny treatment by now. Government agents woul...
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Friday, April 16, 2021

Why we should be sceptical about Kris Faafoi's grand broadcasting project

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In a previous life, I served for two years as a member of the Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC). You’ve never heard of it...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Why I'm suspicious of the phrase "award-winning"

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I’ve said for years – not that anyone was listening – that two of the most useless words in the English language are “award-winning”. Awar...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Why move to a new country if your first instinct is to change it?

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In a recent blog post , I drew attention to the fact that New Zealand’s leading pro-abortion activist, Terry Bellamak, is an American. She h...
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A fallacy exposed

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Parliament last night passed a Bill that will provide three days’ paid bereavement leave for women who have experienced a stillbirth or misc...
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