[...] Nearly 80% of Americans would vote for a gay president [...] On the other hand, the persistent giggling and nudging and winking whenever Buttigieg’s name comes up suggests something less than cosmopolitan sophistication.

OH DEAR, oh dear, oh dear! The biters have been bit – and they’re not happy! To watch Guyon Espiner squirming in his chair as his friend and colleague, Checkpoint host Lisa Owen, oh-so-gently questioned him about what THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND had done to him – and of course to the whole splendid edifice of media freedom, including the untrammelled right of the “investigative journalist” to lay waste all things in the name of the sacred public interest.

[...] A healthy home is bloody useless if you can’t afford to rent it and next week I’ll expand upon the catastrophe Labour is planning to inflict upon its own support base should they be re-elected. What I would like you to consider in the meantime is just how bad things are getting for Labour voters victims already, despite how mild the scapegoating of landlords has been up until now.

Has anyone else noticed how silent PM Ardern and Justice Minister Little have fallen over the much-touted “fast-track review of NZ’s current hate speech laws”? There’s a reason for this: it’s an unpopular issue with NZ citizens and we happen to be in an election year.

[...] increasingly, not just in the wider community but within the gay community itself, the rainbow lobby are seen as vicious, intolerant bullies. As Douglas Murray writes, “the [gay rights] movement behaved – in victory – as its opponents once did, as oppressors. When the boot was on the other foot, something ugly happened”.