New Zealand
What Britain could learn from New Zealand about home-schooling
Britain needs a Kiwi-style national correspondence school
New Zealand is being transformed, but not in a good way
Rampant identity politics are blighting the country
The myth of Saint Jacinda
Every time I read another excitable media article about New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern, I am reminded of an…
Kiwi Life
Dear Australia, I would like to formally offer an apology on behalf of New Zealand. I have no authority to…
Kiwi Life
When I dice a chilled cucumber along with a couple of tomatoes, toss them together in a bowl with a…
Deliberately promoting decline
In New Zealand, a once great nation is being trashed
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Once upon a time here in New Zealand, when political dinosaurs still roamed the earth, Prime Minister Keith Holyoake startled…
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It’s true what they say about ill winds. The coronavirus pandemic was a perverse blessing for New Zealand Prime Minister…
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What has happened to the West, ignoring the lessons of history? Sweden, for example, long regarded as one of the…
Kiwi Life
‘Trustworthy, accurate and reliable news stories are more important now than ever. Support our newsrooms by making a contribution.’How wonderfully…
Popper, the outsider
New Zealand’s role in great philosophical thinking
Covid-19 and the creeping state
Did the New Zealand government act illegally on lockdown laws?
The best New Zealand wine I’ve come across
I was once invited to the Cheltenham races and found the experience underwhelming. Everything was too respectable: not nearly Hibernian…
Maori roadblocks
Covid-19 unmasks the true separatist agenda
Disaster’s long march through the institutions
Derelict thinking throughout central and local body government and indeed all our management (including academic) areas, is now recognised as…
Made-up Maori
In what may seem a strange request, I recently replied to a government department asking to be addressed in English,…
Deserter dads
Nearly everyone in New Zealand has been made to feel they could play a part in the forthcoming Royal Commission…
Jaded by Jacinda
On a Pacific cruise ship recently, passengers were subjected to a rant by an Australian ‘comedian’ – a word now…
Privilege points to prejudice
The other day I checked my points balance. I felt ashamed by how high it was, and wondered what I…
Black and white clouds over New Zealand
The Christchurch mosque massacres of March 15 brought out the best and the worst in New Zealanders. The best was…
Christchurch – and saying goodbye to so much
Our saddest times are when those we love leave us. When there is not even time to say goodbye, the…
Fake New Zealand
That sleeping giant, the public, is waking up this side of the Tasman, but late to redress the reality that…
Wimmin’s notes
Men aren’t doing it by themselves, either The recent triumphalist article by Speccie writer Declan Mansfield, ‘Sisters aren’t doing it…
Full of fabulous, but baffling, things: Oceania reviewed
At six in the morning of 20 July 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson first set eyes on a Pacific Island. As…
Brash free speech
It’s taken a while, but the speech wars have reached New Zealand – and an Australian is in the thick…
