Category: Opinion
As social media fills with memes of Hilary Clinton and Melania Trump holding riffles and ‘How Do You Miss’ trends on Twitter (X), Craig Young reminds us how dangerous political violence is for democracy and progress. On July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania, US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was the subject of an attempted assassination. […]
Craig Young says the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act or ‘Waka Jumping’ helps protect rainbow communities from fringe extremists and The Greens need to use it to remove Darlene Tana from parliament. It looks like the Green Party is about to expel former List MP Darleen Tana from Parliament over issues about migrant labour maltreatment at […]
As President Biden desperately fights to convince America he’s not too old for the job, Craig Young looks at the older politicians in our parliament and asks do we need an age limit? Although current debates about elderly politicians are restricted to Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s US presidential candidacies, what about our own parliament? […]
Craig Young explains how France’s centrist and left voters strategically avoided a far-right government. At the same time as the United Kingdom held its general election, French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election in France – which almost went badly wrong for him. A French President is elected once every seven years, and may […]
Craig Young examines the results of Britain’s general election (including Posie Parker’s votes) and wonders if New Zealand might follow. On July 4, the axe finally fell on the factionalised, negligent and incompetent British Conservative government. So what next? Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party stormed to a landslide victory, as anticipated, although encouragingly, LGBTQI+ allies […]
Dick Richards believes you need to confront your past to secure your future. You probably don’t remember, but a few years ago, we were fist-deep in a pandemic. Yes, I’m being facetious. It’s not something we remember fondly, nor something we’d want to repeat. Although sometimes I do miss getting paid to stay at home […]
Man-hating lesbians aren’t a real thing, but lesbian-loving straight cis ‘lesbros’ are, and Jessie Lewthwaite wants more! Doing my patented butch dance, which I bust out when I haven’t had enough gins to actually do my far goofier real dancing, I slowly push through the crowd to the bar. I was on my way to […]
More research has cast doubt on the research methods within the UK Cass Review, which has been used to holt gender-affirming medical care for transgender adolescents. Authored by Irish, British, Canadian and European researchers in the fields of paediatrics, developmental psychology and endocrinology; experts have cast doubts on the Cass Review’s information-gathering processes. The criteria […]