Bob Jones: Academic pretensionism

Few people would argue when I say many university academics, notably in the humanities, have an inflated view of themselves. There was a time when they were treated with awe but those days are well gone. The financially driven degradation of universities as intellectual institutions into degree factories, issuing degrees and diplomas for every conceivable activity, the majority having no intellectual dimension, were covered in my comic novel “Degrees For Everyone”.

John Porter: It Is Really Simple: One Man One Vote

Today I’m reading an e-mail I was sent recently. These are not my words but seemingly, they represent the feeling of a hell of lot of New Zealanders.

Firstly, we have to start telling the truth to our children and young people.

There has never been “culture” in any stone age society, as they all lived a subsistence lifestyle and usually fought tribe against tribe, for meagre resources.

That was Great Britain and Europe two thousand five hundred years ago.