Critics often bash the U.S. Electoral College as undemocratic, but is it really an outlier? This post argues that many advanced democracies—including those led by progressive icons like Trudeau and Ardern—also don’t elect their leaders through direct popular votes. Maybe it’s time to rethink our stance.
Wartime heroine was treasured
Helene (Mimi) Hotte Marple: B Amsterdam, February 3, 1912; m (1) 1937 Wim Hotte : (dec 1945) 1s, (2) 1966 Rex Marple; d Nelson, May 12, 2001. [Article about my dear godmother, by Peter Kitchin and originally published in The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand, May 24, 2001] Helene Marple, an unlikely treasure of New […]
Isolationist policies start to catch NZ up
On the eve of Prime Minister Helen Clark’s meeting with United States President George W. Bush, and other officials, it is not just the US in Anzus that New Zealand should be concerned about, writes NICHOLAS KERR. Closer to home, our relationship with Australia is not what it used to be either. [This op-ed originally […]
Loving Uncle Sam
This country’s education system has failed for decades to provide young New Zealanders with any context of the world’s only superpower and its people. There was virtually no mention of America during my own schooling; the only foreign country we studied was the global nonentity Fiji.
More evidence of child COVID lockdown harm
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on more evidence of ongoing harm to children as a result of Australia’s harsh lockdown policies. We’ve seen the same disastrous impact on the lives of a generation of youngsters in US states that closed schools the longest, as well as countries like New Zealand that had repeated lockdowns. It’s […]
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