News Round-up

Thursday 6th of February, 2025.

An Assessment of Institutions of Higher Learning, in Conversation with Dr. James Kierstead

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.

Elliot Ikilei and Cam Slater on the Treaty Principles Bill and the Impending Demise of Woke

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

Jill Ovens and Katrina Biggs: Women's Rights and Gender Ideology in 2025

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

Welcome to 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

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Sir Lockwood Smith Discusses NZ Trade and Relations

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

On Nikki Kaye

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

A Diplomatic Mission to The People's Republic of Wokington

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.

OpenBSD version 7.6 release, Heartbleed, and the nature of 'Free.'

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

Use a VPN, but don’t stop there

(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

An Overview of Proxying to Circumvent Survelliance and Censorship

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