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…

Stand up for Freedom & Hospitality: Have lunch in the weirdest places!

Pencil-pushers have been regulating things since Adam wanted to leave the confines of the Garden, and someone had to write up a Standard Operating Procedure and a Health & Safety Policy before he could be allowed to go. I hate to think how many leeches had to be applied…

Vaccine-caused Mortality: Under 60's dying at twice the rate of the unclean conspiracy theorists?

"Something is wrong. The promises that the health authorities have made over the last 12 months about the vaccines are not coming true. Despite near-complete levels of adult vaccination in Europe, many countries are seeing skyrocketing Covid cases and deaths. And worst…