New Zealand
The religion of gender
I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…
Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism
In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…
Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s final cringeworthy speech as PM
It’s a bad time for soporific narcissists in office. Just weeks after the self-indulgent grandstanding of Nicola Sturgeon’s farewell press…
Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action
Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…
Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s successor struggles to define a woman
Is Labour’s state of confusion about sex and gender going global? Labour leader Keir Starmer was widely mocked this weekend…
Letter from down under
The mob lunged towards me, screeching and grabbing, and I knew that if I fell I would never get up.…
The death of New Zealand’s MSM
Until recently I was a member of the mainstream media in New Zealand. A proud member. I have loved being…
New Zealand has much to learn from the treatment of Posie Parker
A promotional clip for New Zealand uploaded to social media the other day looked like the usual decorous fare churned…
The Posie Parker mob has embarassed New Zealand
New Zealand has, until recently, dwelt in splendid isolation during the culture wars. Kiwis have typically been reluctant to discuss…
New Zealand shows us how the Voice will work
There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to…
The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand
This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British…
Giving six-figures to racism
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation has saved New Zealand’s Labour party
Many expected the abrupt resignation of Jacinda Ardern to fatefully deprive New Zealand’s government of its best asset. However, the…
Hate speech or free speech? Balancing religious sensitivities with liberty
The New Zealand government’s most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to…
Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well
Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…
Saint Jacinda’s fall
Media fawning wasn’t enough to save her
Ardern escapes election judgment
On the morning of August 26, 2021, my wife and I arrived at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, for our flight…
Sea life: cruising after Covid
The former Premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, probably never wanted to see the Ruby Princess again. Three years…
New Zealand mourns the ‘loss’ of its kind princess
Whether you admire or loathe Jacinda Ardern as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, you have to admit, she was…
Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand’s failed feminist icon
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Prime Minister has seen commentary varying from hagiographic flim-flam to an accurate accounting of what was promised,…
New Zealand’s PM is a welcome change from Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins can afford to feel pleased with his first days in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand. In…
Will Christopher Luxon be New Zealand’s prime minister?
Following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour government will select its new leader, and the country’s next prime…
Jacinda Ardern was the queen of coercive kindness
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. After a period of reflection over the summer break, she…
The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern
Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…
Joe Biden should follow Jacinda Ardern out the door
I have a question for New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister Jacinda Ardern: can you take President Biden with you? Ardern…
