New Zealand looks set to be governed by the National Party for the next six years to 2017. The Labour Party, led by Phil Goff and Annette King, went down to its worst defeat since 1928. Both quickly announced their resignations, setting off a leadership battle between David Cunliffe and David Parker. Neither…
Abortion is of course legal in many nations. Thus it is simply assumed that there is some sort of universal and binding right to an abortion. But this in fact is not the case. And a new document has appeared which proves this. A group of scholars meeting in San José, Costa Rica, have made…
The abortion of our unborn children “constitutes the single most grievous moral deficit in contemporary life”, an outspoken first cousin of the Queen has said. Lord Nicholas Windsor, 41, the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and first cousin once removed to Queen Elizabeth II, has recently launched a campaign against…
A Nobel laureate has quit the American Physical Society (APS), one of the world’s leading organisations of physicists, in protest at its assertion that the evidence of damaging global warming is “incontrovertible”. Norwegian-born Professor Ivar Giaever, who lives in the United States, emailed the Society to say: “Thank you for your letter inquiring about…
On October 10, 1911, the Shin Hai Revolution, led by Dr Sun Yat-sen, overthrew 5,000 years of dynastic rule in China and established the Republic of China. On Double Ten Day, when Chinese communities worldwide celebrate this centenary, they inevitably think of Taiwan. For many years, after the relocation of the seat of Republican government to Taipei in 1949, Taiwan stood as a bright but lonely beacon in a dark world dominated by the contending totalitarian powers of the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Taiwan survived ejection from the United Nations in 1971 and bounced back, even…
Julia Gillard’s obdurate insistence that her government pursue any alternative to the former Howard Government’s “Nauru Solution” has resulted in the asylum-seeker issue tumbling into absurdity. Had Ms Gillard quietly agreed to Nauru being re-opened at the beginning of the year and thereby negating Tony Abbott’s repeated election campaign promises to “stop the boats”,…
