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No to Blasphemy Laws: people have rights, religions do not
The Law Commission Hara ngākau kino | Review of hate crime law has surprised me. In an area crowded with panic, symbolism, and bad drafting, it has refused to solve the wrong problem. In Hara ngākau kino, it concluded that New Zealand shoul...
A week is a long time: 25 July 2026
A week is a long time in politics. Welcome to my weekly wrap up of the week that was in New Zealand politics with a sprinkling of international news.
If this is the campaign we’re going to have, it’s going to be a very long few...
A week is a long time: 18 July 2026
A week is a long time in politics. Welcome to my weekly wrap up of the week that was in New Zealand politics with a sprinkling of international news.
Note: apologies this isn’t my best wrap up. I got home from an event at 10.30pm las...
Can we have proper conversations about the Treaty, assisted dying, AI, farming, media, politics, & our future?
Time has flown by and next week I am setting off around New Zealand on the Free Speech Union’s Good Faith Yarns Tour: ten events, ten communities, a great many flights, and hopefully some interesting public conversations about some gnarlier...
Was this Corrections case settled to avoid a precedent Crown Law & Human Rights Commission did not want?
Note: it is my editorial policy to use pronouns that relate to the biological sex of the person.
I am fuming. It is 2026 and the rest of the world is unwinding the destructive and nonsensical policies of the trans madness era, and here in...
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