Not PC

“ T e Pāti Māori has spent most of the year seemingly allergic to policy, and after all that time this is what they have come up with: five ...

Another Constitutional Trojan Horse: advancing change through political stealth F OR ALL THE FOOLISH NONSENSE about "tsunamis" tal...

" I t has become starkly obvious that the Maori seats are being used by activists to [ghettoise Māori: to isolate them, separate them, ...

" L et’s talk about te Pāti Māori. A political movement based on race. ... "A political movement based on race implies that your w...

I don't want to be conspiratorial here .... but could it be that major political parties have begun to get some rat cunning into how to...

" 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 ...

"E ru Kapa-Kingi ... [ threw out a call this week ] to reshape New Zealand’s constitutional order, to carve out areas of separate gover...

"I t's hard to get too much enthusiasm for the Tamaki Makaurau by-election. ... [W]hat we actually have is a spectre of Peeni Henar...

One advantage of having blogged so long is having written about so many things. One disadvantage of having blogged so long is watching thing...

"W hile Māori children are being beaten, abused and killed right here in New Zealand, Te Pāti Māori’s leaders are too busy preaching ab...

The reason for the punishment. Threats not immediately obvious. Y es, it's accurate to call Te Pāti Māori a racist party — both its cons...

"W hen did it become permissible for Members of Parliament to treat select committee submitters with condescension, disdain or thinly d...

"T he Treaty Principles Bill has done exactly what its champion, David Seymour, intended – it has sparked a national conversation. And ...

"T here is a sense now that the protest against the Treaty Principles bill, with its highly visible Maori Party branding, is turning in...

Tamihere goes bush after a successful recruitment drive "T he Hīkoi mō te Tiriti ('March for the Treaty') was ostensibly a prot...

Q: "To be totally clear do Māori have more rights than non-Māori New Zealanders?" Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: "Māori have rights a...

"O n the Treaty, isn't the argument, even of Te Pāti Māori and its supporters, that it was framed to protect and guarantee the priv...

  SO LET'S FISK WHAT one of the Te Pati Māori (TPM) protest leaders said this morning, about why they've been out there trying to b...