Dieuwe de Boer

Stats NZ have finally released the full data of the botched 2023 census. There are lots of things you can glean from it, such as the inclusion of sexuality data showing that nearly 12% of Wellington is gay, which makes sense if you think about it.

This is a partial rebuttal to Nathan Smith's argument that "Christianity is the death of the nation." We have great real-life conversations on this subject, but perhaps there is some benefit in debating some of this out in public.

New Zealand is in a recession and we have been for two years now. Our per capita recession has surpassed the Great Financial Crisis in length after contracting for seven consecutive quarters.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how I supported the treaty principles being put forward by ACT because the treaty is a liberal document.

The establishment of the Maori King Movement was inspired greatly by the English monarchy.

When the Bronze Age Mindset was published in 2018 it became a best seller and popular among many of America's elites. In the global online right it quickly reached the status of cult classic. I never had reason to pick it up, until recently.

Localism is a principle that is being spoken of more often. There are older terms like subsidiarity that have fallen out of use, in particular because people do not intuitively know what they mean.

There is an ongoing debate that is certain to heat up in the next year around the Treaty Principles.

There are three different stories from the past week that I want to weave together as they speak to the same problem.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in NZ from 1950 to 2019 was released this month of July. The government issued a formal apology and made the usual promises to do things better.