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The Question Is: Can the Nuremburg Tribunal’s willingness to execute the notorious Nazi antisemite, Julius Streicher, for publishing hate s...

Why Now? As Rebecca Wright pointed out to Justice Minister, Kiritapu Allan, on Newshub Nation , a great deal of political travail could hav...

Trust Us  –  We Know What We ’ re Doing: Why is this government so determined to shut-up, shut-down and shut-out the Right? JAN TINETTI, A...

Radical Options: By allocating the Broadcasting portfolio to the irrepressible, occasionally truculent, leader of Labour’s Māori caucus, Wi...

A Delicate Juggler?  Internal Affairs Minister, Jan Tinetti (above) has appointed Ms Caroline Flora as Chief Censor. Ms Flora owes New Zeala...

Poisonous! From a very early age New Zealanders are warned to give small black spiders with a red blotch on their abdomens a wide berth. The...

A Moral Authority? The Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, is supposed to uphold the secular character of the New Zealand state. As...

Intramuscular Solidarity: A trade union movement dominated by the working-class wouldn’t have a bar of all this anti-vax nonsense. The idea...

Promise-Keeper: The events of 15 March 2019 are seared upon Jacinda Ardern’s memory. She will not, therefore, abandon the proposed “Hate Sp...

For Our Own Good? Police officers knocking on New Zealanders’ doors on account of what they might think, or what they have said, is more lik...

They're Only Words: New Zealanders are not angels, and they should not be expected to behave like angels. In the hours and days after t...

High Risk Call: Insensitive though it may seem to even pose the question: how will the electorate respond to what the Prime Minister’s o...

Courtroom Drama: There is no off-switch in a courtroom. Neither is it possible to turn the page in disgust. Ill-formed and ill-defended o...