Opinion

In an outrageous abuse of privilege, the deputy chief of mission of the European Delegation to New Zealand is attempting to wriggle out of a $20k plus tenancy debt to a Kiwi landlord on the basis of her status as a diplomat.

You'd be forgiven if you missed the Conservative Party rebranding into the New Conservative Party on the Queen's Birthday. In fact, you'd be forgiven if you forgot the CP even still existed at all.

The news week has been off to a roaring start, with announcements that the oil exploration ban was not actually backed by any paperwork has been followed up by the Church of Climatology High Priest James Shaw requesting us to eat less meat.

After Ireland voted to change their abortion laws, the death lobby in New Zealand got all excited and decided to push for more dead babies over here too, with Jacinda announcing that might happen next year. The hapless Simon Bridges had to go on Red Radio and TVNZ to stick his foot in his mouth.

For those who do not yet know, anti-Islamisation activist Tommy Robinson was arrested and jailed a few days ago while livestreaming outside a courtroom where an "Asian grooming gang" was awaiting a verdict (that's PC for Muslim paedophile rape gang).

The latest poll provides some interesting insights into just what is going on in the political arena. While polls at this stage don't translate into actual results, they do show us just what is working and what isn't.

In this week's instalment of "Wanker Words", John Black takes us through cultural appropriation. You'd think that the left would be all about sharing and melding cultures in a diverse way, but rather it's the opposite.

Everything is racist! Labour MP Tamati Coffey is upset that the Maori Ward referemdums all failed. It's almost like the democratic majority don't want separatism and race-based laws.

We at Right Minds routinely mock the quality of journalism, but it isn't often that we get a study exposing the reasons behind the poor quality. Business Insider reveals that journalists brains show a lower level of executive functioning, which affects the regulation of their emotions and biases.

John Black returns with the third "wanker word of the week" and this one is all about how evil men are. That's right, if you're a man and you act like one then some wanker might just call you toxic. Still don't understand? Allow John to mansplain it you to.