The Parlermaid for PM (Campaign): What Worries Kiwis About Our Temu Government?

Things are not going as we expected them to. Why has our coalition government not lived up to our expectations, and what can we do about it? The answer is: exactly what we did last time we ended up with a government we didn't want who wasn't representing us the w…

Why do white supremacists hate Jews so much and are their views rational?

So much has happened in recent months, mostly pertaining to the world's fascination with conflict in the Middle East. Every online account I log into has a feed full of hatred aimed at Israel and the Jewish people. It got me to thinking - why the persistent Jew hate? Wh…

A Tale of Two PM's: The abject failure of a social experiment, and where to for Labour from here.

When Helen Clark referred to a farmer's notion of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a "pretty communist" , calling it "silly" and a "misogynist attack" , one wonders if Aunty Helen really grasped the enormous error Labour made in placin…

The Battle is over. The War is won. We surrendered.

New Zealand is grumbling. It is grumbling about a health crisis, a cost of living crisis - the cost of fuel, food, shelter have all risen beyond what kiwis can muster from their meagre pay packets. And New Zealand is grumbling about it.

Mark Avis: The Police Become Political

It seems that everywhere you look, there is a creeping trend for the police to become more and more political. And this accompanies increasing authoritarianism. New Zealand is no exception. Read More: The Police Become Political Published: August 27, 2021. Author: Mark Avi…

Part 1: Is the Battle of Portaloo the beginning of a new NZ, or the death of hope?

The shocking scenes depicted on mobile and computer screens around New Zealand on Black Wednesday, streaming from the vicinity of Parliament House on the 2nd of March 2022, have been hailed as a great victory by the Left. But was it really? I'm not so sure.

Part 2: The war rages on. Learn the rules of engagement

The Battle of Portaloo, a 23 day occupation of Parliament Grounds in Wellington, was fought valiantly but ultimately lost on 2 March in a horrific display of gratuitous Police violence so great that the date has been dubbed Black Wednesday. It was sheer luck that despite th…

The Curious Case of DJ Dimension

Here we are on New Years Eve 2021, about to enter the realm of 2022 and hoping for a miraculous recovery from the tumultuous two years that we are about to close the door on. For most New Zealanders, excluding only the very young, the otherwise distracted, or the very unawa…

Who are you in this new world: the Evil, the Coward, or the Hero?

Believe it or not, "First World Problem" (FWP) has it's own definition: "a usually minor or trivial problem or annoyance experienced by people in relatively affluent or privileged circumstances especially as contrasted with problems of greater social sign…

Out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

There comes a time when even the willfully blind have no choice but to let the truth in through tightly closed eyelids. When even those who refuse to hear the truth cannot help but become aware that the myths they are being fed are just that - myths. There comes a time when…