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Dr. Kierstead is a research fellow at the New Zealand Initiative and a scholar. A classicist, he is well-placed to offer informed insights into the current state of higher educational institutions and New Zealand's in particular, from the perspective of a Humanities and Social Sciences academic.
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Elliot Ikilei is a trustee at Hobson's Pledge whose submission this week to the Justice Select Committee was a significant in the public discourse around equality. Cam Slater is a commentator and publisher of the Goodoil News. His appraisal of the machinations inside the coalition government provides an
Is the West finally ready to abandon wokery and return to rationalism? Jill Ovens is a longstanding and prominent figure of leftist politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Ovens Katrina Biggs is social commentator and prolific essayist: https://aboldwoman.substack.com/ Together Jill and Katrina join the polity.world
This is my new project. Welcome. A while ago a publisher overseas asked me to develop a podcast to augment their written articles with audiovisual content. I was excited by the opportunity for a couple of reasons, first, because while I love the pandemonium of my SimonTV live shows and
Introduction Welcome to the polity.world podcast, thank you for accepting our invitation to participate. You should have received the Show Notes including your login and links to the materials. The following is a description of the process and a guide to achieving a great performance. Connecting The podcast is
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Sir Lockwood joined my live broadcast on Sunday 8/xii 2024. Unfortunately I had the broadcast settings configured incorrectly which caused occasional audio and video glitches. To make matters worse, I forgot to switch my own microphone back on a couple of times like the dumbarse I am. To make
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The first time I met Nikki Kaye was sixteen years ago. A mutual friend introduced us in a restaurant. I'd never heard of her, she was just some chick with an incongruously deep voice who immediately started talking about public policy. In a restaurant. Late on a Friday
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Wokington City is broken. Strict adherence to far-left social and economic policies broke it and the locals expect the rest of New Zealand to finance a fix for their follies.
I wrote the following essay ten years ago, as the events surrounding OpenBSD forking the OpenSSL codebase in response to Heartbleed unfolded. I’m re-publishing it today in acknowledgement of that effort and their release of version 7.6 OpenBSD is an operating system you've probably never heard
(Note: This article originally appeared in Liberty Itch. Technical mitigation solutions are described in a follow up article here -SRA.) The socialist government of Anthony Albanese is, once again, proposing legislation to de-anonymise, monitor and censor the Internet. From across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand I can smell the
Introduction State surveillance and censorship is an increasing concern across the West and became topical again this week with the introduction of the Misinformation Act proposed by the Australian Labor government. The coordinated attack on free speech and civil liberties throughout the West by leftwing governments is the topic of
NZ Police rousted the home of another citizen for hurty words on social media today. @theinfinitepooh isn't accused of a crime. Here's a recording of the friendly intimidation chat at Nelson station. In civilised societies police investigate crimes. In NZ they enforce Wokery.
Yesterday the corrupt NZ Police rousted a law-abiding citizen and his young family. Police wanted to avoid a record of their actions and managed to switch the victim's cellphone off twice. This is the recording of the female officer attacking the victim's phone.
The corrupt NZ Police have made the unilateral determination that the man in this video made "inflammatory and antagonistic posts...have the potential of inciting or inspiring violence." None of his posts were illegal. Unannounced, armed police rousted the family home anyway.
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The Labour and Green parties support political violence against their opponents. In convicting their activist Eliana Rubashkyn today for assaulting Posie Parker and Tania Sturt, the NZ courts repudiated leftwing hate. Ms. Sturt spoke with me after the sentence was imposed.
18 months ago the Green party activist Eliana Rubashkyn assaulted @ThePosieParker and Tania Sturt in Albert Park. Judge Lummis adjourned his appeal for a Discharge Without Conviction until tomorrow. Ms. Sturt spoke with me at the conclusion of today's hearing.
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On defending New Zealand's democracy against vestigial media bias, leftwing extremism and ethno-nationalist separatism