<A post I wrote for Facebook on 12/14/2025> The events at Bondi Beach this week are horrifying — an act of antisemitic terror in a place synonymous with openness, celebration, and public life. Like many, I’ve been sitting with the question of what, if anything, can be meaningfully said in the aftermath. I lived in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aussie kids’ increased drowning risk—another consequence of COVID lockdowns
By now, the anticipated and now well documented consequences of lockdowns for children is well known: massive learning loss; increased mental health issues, including suicides; malnutrition due to increased poverty. The list goes on and all were predicted. The Sydney Morning Herald has identified another to add resulting from Australia’s extensive lockdowns. Per the headline: […]
UK spike in non-COVID deaths a sign of things to come in other countries that locked down hard?
A startling article out of the UK reports that, entirely unrelated to COVID, England and Wales are experiencing 1,000 excess deaths a week is cause for alarm in countries that also enforced strict lock-downs. Concerns were raised as early as mid-2020 that locking down would result in precisely what appears to be happening. The piece, […]