Both Holden and Harriet M. Welsch are honest witnesses – spies, even – of a world whose imperfections they observe without much empathy, let alone tolerance. One sign of the subversive nature of ...
The Jewish newspaper Haaretz has just published a useful timeline on the escalating abuse that Trump has been directing at the Israeli PM in recent months. As columnist Esther Solomon has pointed out, ...
Currently, this combination of self-doubt and appeasement is being played out in our plans for Defence spending into the early 2030s. None of the increase seems based on any rational assessment of ...
In the wake of the enormous success of The Incredible Journey, Burnford could easily have retired to some gated community in Florida. Instead, she made her own forays into the natural wilderness and ...
If our executive branch had a backbone between them, they should have rejected the “free loading” jibe. New Zealand and the rest of the world are not “ freeloading.” We are all paying a high and ...
The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. Ever since Harriet the Spy was […] ...
Clearly, last year’s fears of a stockmarket “AI bubble” have long gone. AI firms and related stocks are now being treated as the backbone of American prosperity, and market saviours. At the same time, ...
Funny…back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his acts of aggression were legal under international law ...
In the wake of WW2, immigration policy was driven by a mixture of compassion for the refugees of war, and by a less admirable desire to replenish our ranks (preferably) with the racial stock of the ...
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