Not PC

Chloe Swarbrick: 'Yes, I alone will decide how much profit you will make. Or not.' " O ne of the most valuable inheritances fro...

“[ T he] development [of law] during the last hundred years has become increasingly one of the destruction of justice by 'social justice...

" A  spectre haunts debates about governance: the idea of benevolent and efficient dictatorship. Where democratic leaders haggle, delay...

"[ T ]he principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the...

L egal battles can be very personal, but arguments about  the law less so. Yet when barrister Gary Judd criticised  the impetus from AUT...

“ I n order to make people equal, you have to treat them differently. If you treat people alike, so far as government is concerned, the resu...

" R oy, a commenter on my ' Lessons from Iran ,' says there is no such thing as human rights: 'Human rights [he says] are g...

" T he Rule of Law is one of the foundational principles of constitutional democracy. ... Its essence is that law—not individuals—gover...

" T e Pāti Māori’s obsession with dividing people by ancestry belongs in the past. The rest of us should be focused on equality before ...

" I make no secret of my hatred of the excessive and inappropriate use of name suppression in New Zealand. In particular, I am infuria...

  "O ver the weekend, the Otago Daily Times ran a story with the headline 'Rāhui in place after body found on Wairau Bar'  ... ...

"P resident Trump has deployed the National Guard, along with several hundred marines, to Los Angeles — despite the objections of Calif...

"I t's time for Ayn Rand's Power Question: What facts of reality give rise to the need for such a concept as X? "Here, X i...

"I myself cannot see how anyone could possibly object to a bill committing our country to racial equality and to the sovereignty of th...

"T rump’s administration has quickly moved beyond normal policy disputes into the realm of constitutional crisis. His claim of authori...

"T he suggestion that colonial systems are based on white supremacy is a generalisation that infects much of the debate about coloniali...

"B ryce Edwards ... has signalled the possibility of a constitutional crisis because of the activism of some judges of New Zealand’s s...

"D avid Seymour is right. His bill might be killed at its Second Reading, but the issues he has raised will not die. ...     "Dav...

  "[A] legal system centred on legislation [i.e. statute law] resembles ... a centralised economy in which all the relevant decisions ...

"T he problem we have globally and historically is that innovation has usually occurred as a one-off, maybe as a flash of brilliance, b...