The disgraceful RNZ lumps JK Rowling together with convicted sex offenders as artists with “tarnished legacies”. Most NZers agree with Rowling’s views on gender, but of course RNZ doesn’t bother to say what her supposedly problematic views actually are.
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"Every ideological adversary is folded into an immense transnational moral architecture involving whiteness, settler-colonialism, Zionism, Hindutva, empire, and supremacist systems."
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Kayla Kingdon-Bebb is insufferably smug and condescending.
I think I realise now what TOP mean by “doing politics differently”: really, they don’t want to do politics at all, in the sense of allowing any choices that go against their elitist, technocratic, utopian ideology.
Here's our interview with Kayla Kingdon-Bebb from this morning's Q+A.
youtube.com/watch?v=lHokNIsD…
Claire Charters is essentially arguing for a Maori supremacist constitution.
rnz.co.nz/news/politics/2604…
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Greta Thunberg, the high priestess of planetary doom, seems to be bored of her own apocalypse. She’s turned her holy fury against the Jewish State instead. These eco-nuts have no principles – they’re just addicted to doom-mongering, says Brendan O’Neill
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The long march through the institutions.
Not only have conservatives become vanishingly rare in academia, so have centrists. That’s how complete the left’s dominance is: Even moderates are now a fringe group in academia.
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Call me crazy but I would prefer that universities not decolonize engineering programs.
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Sitting in court watching Stephen Gray’s appeal against a conviction for reposting a meme which mocked Islam and Muhammad marrying a child. He had 15-20 followers on Facebook. A (non-Muslim!) neighbour, who Stephen has previous disagreements with, decided to report him to the police claiming it caused him distress…
The fundamental argument from the CPS is that Stephen was not making a political point. That he expressed his objection to Islamic child marriage in a way that was simply to offend because it singled out Islam, and he should have made his post more nuanced and sensitive if he was making a political point.
The defence is having to point out that Muhammad did in fact marry a 6 year old according to Islamic texts, and that child marriage does still occur in Islamic countries AND there are prominent Islamic scholars IN THE UK who openly say that they are content with child marriage. And either way, it is not illegal to offend others, and you are allowed to make political points that are not nuanced.
To think of all the actual, serious crime in Middlesbrough — let alone the rest of the country — and the time being wasted on this nonsense. Actually witnessing the amount of public resource and time being funnelled into prosecuting people for causing offence by highlighting a factual point is acutely infuriating.
Anyway, join the @SpeechUnion because you never know when it might be you having to explain why you don’t like child marriage, or anything else that Islam permits.
This will happen in NZ if Labour and the Greens get their de facto blasphemy law.
The Free Speech Union team are proud to support FSU member Stephen Gray as he appeals his conviction for posting a joke about Islam on Facebook.
Today, Stephen’s appeal was heard at Middlesbrough Crown Court.
Judgment has been reserved for six weeks, so we expect to know the outcome on 21 December.
It has been an incredibly long day, largely thanks to the Crown Prosecution Service’s ineptitude.
Today has once again shown that the process itself is the punishment.
We’re keeping the faith and hope Stephen gets the justice he deserves — and that we can fight back against an Islamic blasphemy law.
Please donate to our crowdfunder below, and watch Stephen’s update 👇
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Only RNZ could reframe Maori over representation as “squeezing Maori representation”.
rnz.co.nz/news/politics/2579…
Chloe Swarbrick is becoming increasingly unhinged.
Wow, Chloe Swarbrick has gone into peak "the election was stolen" mode ... totally undermining our democracy with false narratives. 😡 She joins Hipkins, Helen Clark and other leftists who think our election was manipulated to the point where it was effectively stolen.
Are they themselves importing the dreaded "culture wars" that they so often oppose? 🤔
#familyfirstnz #election2026
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Rank hypocrisy from Hipkins.
🚨 WATCH
October 2026
@chrishipkins - “I don’t want to get into the territory that we’ve seen overseas where a party that doesn’t do as well as they hope in the election starts to scream about the illegitimacy of elections."
Will you accept the results of the election?
"Absolutely"
November 2026
“National has lost the party vote” and “they’re only holding on to the prospect of power because they’ve manipulated the electoral system”.
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🎙️🚨 NEW FSU PODCAST EPISODE OUT TODAY AT 2PM!
The Government’s draft Conversion Practices Bill is a Trojan horse for putting Stonewall’s trans ideology on the statute book.
It will also see parents arrested and jailed for up to five years for having good-faith conversations with their gender-confused children or trying to dissuade them from pursuing irreversible medical pathways before the age of 18.
This week, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw Shaw is joined by women’s rights campaigner @HJoyceGender.
Tune in on the FSU YouTube channel at 2pm!
Fortunately we don’t leave the decision to uni students.
stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36105755…
This will be coming to NZ if Hipkins and the Greens get their blasphemy law.
🚨 BREAKING: APPEAL AGAINST ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY CODE
This Friday, FSU member Stephen Gray will appeal his conviction at the Crown Court for reposting a meme critical of Islam.
Stephen, a retired police officer with nearly 30 years’ service, reposted a meme that had already been shared thousands of times: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”
The post referred to the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha. According to the Hadiths, she was six when they married and nine when the marriage was consummated. Stephen says the post was satirical, but he also hoped it would prompt serious debate about whether that marriage has helped make child marriage acceptable in parts of the Muslim world.
The CPS initially decided not to charge him. After the complainant appealed, the decision was reviewed and Stephen was prosecuted under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for sending a “grossly offensive” message. In April, District Judge Steven Hood convicted him. The judge found that the post could not be making a serious point because it was light-hearted. Stephen was ordered to pay more than £1,000.
Parliament abolished the blasphemy laws in England and Wales in 2008. They should not return through the back door, and they certainly should not protect one religion alone. Criticising Islam, or any faith, is not a crime. Nor is reposting a joke that some people find offensive.
The Free Speech Union has instructed John Beggs KC to represent Stephen. We have done this before: we funded Hamit Coskun’s defence and secured the overturning of his conviction on appeal. We then beat the CPS when it tried to challenge his acquittal.
Cases like this are expensive. Please donate to Stephen’s crowdfunder at the link below 👇
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The disgraceful Mohan Dutta has resurrected this hit piece in which he reframes objecting to harassment as “performing the victim”. Imagine if a university professor said this of a prominent left-wing commentator. Is this consistent with your much-vaunted “values”, @MasseyUni?
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