An excellent speech by the President of the University of Austin on inequality: But on the heels of America’s quarter-millennium since the Declaration of Independence, I want to do something a bit ...

Goodbye NCEA, Farewell, Get lost, Good Riddance Some readers of this blog will know that I work as a secondary school teacher. Recently, several people have asked my opinion about the government’s ...

On Patreon I write about hate speech being used to justify Charlie Kirk's murder, but also being used to justify the state targeting people who said hateful things about Kirk's murder, especially US A ...

When I announced a week ago that I was organising a counterprotest to the anti-Israel protest down Queen Street today, I saw a number of people express reservations on Twitter about whether the Police ...

This was facebooked by Cr Aaron Keown, and seems a pretty good voting guide. It went: No Speed Hump & Lower Rates Candidate List 2025 (these candidates will deliver this) Mayor Phil Mauger Councillors ...

Mike Davidson will be the new Green MP replacing Benjamin Doyle. Looking at his electoral record, you might conclude he is exceptionally lucky. In 2022 he lost his seat on Christchurch City Council, ...

Act and NZ First are duking it out over who first came up with the idea of pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Act made the announcement on Tuesday morning. That afternoon Winston Peters ...

Some readers pointed out that the principal charged with stealing $500,000 from his school was in the media just two years ago saying: Palmerston North principal Wayne Jenkins has done the sums and he ...

The Coalition Government will support at risk regional air routes with up to $30 million in loans from the Regional Infrastructure Fund for small passenger airlines, Regional Development Minister ...

A project that looks to harness the potential of supercritical geothermal energy is amongst 19 ambitious science programmes the Government is backing, Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Dr ...

The key statistic for NZ education vs the world – is that we have the highest gap between students who do well and those who do not. These gaps exist within schools by ethnicity. E.g. For Auckland ...