Colinxy: The Coalition Looks Set to Survive Another Election

Barring an unexpected twist from the special votes, the Coalition appears set to continue governing after yesterday’s election. While commentators are already searching for scenarios that might upend the result, the arithmetic currently favours continuing the existing arrangement.

Colinxy: The Antifa Cult

One of the peculiar features of modern politics is that movements often become the very thing they claim to oppose. No contemporary group illustrates this paradox more clearly than Antifa.

The name itself is a form of political camouflage. “Antifa” is simply short for “anti-fascist”, and that label does much of the movement’s rhetorical heavy lifting. After all, who could possibly object to opposing fascism? By defining itself as anti-fascist, the movement attempts to claim the moral high ground before any argument has even begun.

Colinxy: How Modern Movements Erase Personal Responsibility

The ideology that turns offenders into victims and victims into footnotes

One of the most disturbing trends in modern moral discourse is the systematic erasure of personal responsibility. It is not accidental. It is not organic. It is not compassionate. It is ideological; a worldview that treats human beings as passive vessels acted upon by “systems,” “structures,” and “forces,” rather than as moral agents capable of choice.

The Lindsay Clance case is simply a recent example of this rot. But the pattern extends far beyond one courtroom.

Colinxy: The Green Party’s Staggering List of Promises

When the numbers get so large that nobody is supposed to ask where the money comes from.

One of the easiest ways to understand a political party is not by what it says, but by what it promises.

And by that measure, the Green Party is either the most generous party in New Zealand history, or the least economically grounded.

Colinxy: A Rabbit, Four Police Officers, and the Future Labour Wants for New Zealand

When mockery becomes policing, and speech becomes a matter for the State.

Recently in the United Kingdom, a 15‑year‑old boy found himself at the receiving end of four police officers after making fun of a local councillor on social media. His crimes allegedly included criticising the councillor’s clothing, comparing his appearance to a “rent boy”, and posting an edited image giving the politician rabbit ears. The teenager was arrested, fingerprinted, photographed, had DNA taken, and had electronic devices seized. Reports indicate police considered offences including harassment, malicious communications, and a possible hate crime[i].

Colinxy: The Left and Their Lust for Power

One of the great myths of modern politics is that the Left opposes power. They oppose your power. There is a difference.

For more than two centuries, Left-wing movements have presented themselves as enemies of hierarchy, privilege, wealth, authority, and oppression. Their rhetoric is full of liberation, equality, justice, democracy, and empowerment.

Yet whenever one examines their history, a strange pattern emerges: the problem is never power itself. The problem is who currently possesses it.

Colinxy: When Bureaucracy Replaces Reality....

.....The Soviet Whaling Disaster and New Zealand’s Box‑Ticking Culture

Students for Liberty recently highlighted one of the most grotesque examples of central planning gone wrong: the Soviet Union’s whaling industry. It is a case study in what happens when bureaucratic incentives replace human needs, and when “success” is measured not by outcomes but by paperwork.

Their summary is brutal:

Colinxy: The Myth of Price Gouging

Why the Accusation Is Economically Illiterate, Morally Backwards, and Politically Convenient

Few economic concepts generate as much outrage, and as little understanding, as “price gouging.” The term itself is propaganda: a moral accusation disguised as an economic description. It implies theft, greed, and predation. It suggests that businesses raise prices during crises because they are wicked, not because reality has changed.

But like most activist vocabulary, “price gouging” collapses the moment you examine it. It is not an economic principle. It is a political slogan. And it survives only because it is useful to politicians, unions, and bureaucrats — not because it makes any sense.

Let’s dismantle the myth.

Colinxy: Why the Naturalistic Fallacy Dominates Modern Politics

When politicians invoke “nature,” it’s never about nature; it’s about power

The naturalistic fallacy — the belief that whatever is “natural” is automatically good, right, or morally authoritative — has become one of the most pervasive intellectual errors in modern politics. It is everywhere: in environmentalism, in social policy, in identity politics, in public health, in education, and in the rhetoric of every party that wants to appear morally pure without doing the hard work of moral reasoning.

Politicians invoke “nature” because it is the easiest way to shut down debate. Nature cannot argue back. Nature cannot be questioned. Nature cannot be held accountable.

Colinxy: Who Actually Governs NZ?

A Genealogy of Bureaucratic Power in a Country That Pretends Ministers Are in Charge

Every few years, New Zealanders rediscover the same uncomfortable truth: the people they elect do not actually run the country. Ministers announce, promise, and posture. Bureaucrats decide, delay, and deny. The public service is the permanent government; ministers are the temporary decoration.

Colinxy: How DEI Became the West’s New State Ideology

The Soviet playbook didn’t disappear — it migrated

Modern DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) is marketed as a moral breakthrough, a humane framework for justice, representation, and social harmony. But strip away the branding, and you find something older, darker, and unmistakably familiar.

DEI is not a new ideology. DEI is the Soviet nationalities policy reborn: Raznoobrazsiya and Korenizatsiia with corporate logos and HR departments.

The West did not invent DEI. It inherited it.

Colinxy: What Is a “Right”?

Why the Modern Left Keeps Getting This Wrong

"A real Right protects you from the State. A fake Right requires the State to force someone else to serve you.

One of the most persistent confusions in modern politics, and one of the most destructive, is the idea that anything desirable can be rebranded as a “Right.” Healthcare, food, accommodation, internet access, “dignity,” “safety,” and whatever else is fashionable this week. If it is nice to have, the Left insists it must therefore be a Right.

Colinxy: The Cargo Cult - When Ritual Replaces Reason

And why modern governments keep repeating a mistake once made with bamboo control towers

Every civilisation has its superstitions. Some carve them into stone. Some write them into legislation. And some, like the cargo cults of the Pacific, build them out of bamboo and hope the gods of logistics will deliver crates of American supplies.

The term “cargo cult” emerged after World War II. In the Pacific theatre, American forces built runways, depots, and radar stations. Aircraft arrived with food, tools, medicine, and equipment. To the islanders, this looked like magic: build the right structures, and the sky delivers abundance.

So, they copied what they saw.

Colinxy: The Greens’ Supermarket Nationalisation Plan....

.....Ideology First, Arithmetic Later

The Green Party has unveiled its latest “transformational” policy: nationalising 120 supermarkets at a cost of $2.8 billion. According to their pitch:

"Two companies control what almost everyone in this country eats, and they take about a million dollars a day in excess profit out of our shopping baskets.

 

It’s a compelling slogan. It’s also almost entirely unsupported by the available data.

Colinxy: Why Liberalism Keeps Getting Crushed Between the Two Collectivisms

Liberalism — the philosophy of individual rights, limited government, free speech, and voluntary association — should, in theory, be the natural victor in any ideological contest. It produces prosperity, stability, and personal freedom. It avoids the utopian fantasies that lead to mass graves. It is the only system that treats people as individuals rather than as units of a collective.

And yet, historically, liberalism is the ideology that gets crushed first.

Why?

Colinxy: Davina Smolders and the Price of Dissent

When “participation” means silence, and “consultation” means obedience

Every so often, a local‑government story breaks through the noise and reveals something deeper — not just a dispute over process, but a clash of political worldviews. The case of Davina Smolders, councillor for the Far North District Council, is one of those moments.

Colinxy: Shooting the Messenger

An old fallacy in politics, dressed up as modern discourse

One of the most reliable indicators that someone has run out of arguments is when they stop attacking the point and start attacking the person making it. The logical fallacy is ancient — shooting the messenger — and it is often paired with its close cousin, poisoning the well. Together, they form the perfect shield for people who cannot, or will not, engage with ideas.

Colinxy: Labour’s 2026 Policy - Powered by Unicorn Farts

The Fiscal Strategy That Isn’t a Strategy

Every election cycle produces its share of political fantasy, but Labour’s 2026 offering is something else entirely: a fiscal plan seemingly powered not by numbers, economics, or reality, but by the gaseous emissions of mythical creatures. According to Labour’s own documents, they’ve conceded their policies require $12 billion more in spending, while their so‑called Simple Capital Gains Tax, a rebrand of taxing inflation, is so transparent it’s almost endearing, will raise barely a tenth of that.

Colinxy: The Oppressed vs Oppressor Mind Trick

A Companion Piece to “Fast and Slow Thinking: What Kahneman Actually Revealed”

This essay follows naturally from my earlier piece on Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. If Kahneman exposed the machinery of our cognitive shortcuts, then Joshua Greene’s Moral Tribes explains how those shortcuts become tribal weapons — especially when fused with Marx’s Oppressed vs Oppressor narrative.

Colinxy: Appealing to Emotion - The Darling of the Media

If there is one informal logical fallacy that modern institutions have industrialised, weaponised, and normalised, it is the appeal to emotion (argumentum ad passiones). It is not new. The Greeks taught rhetoric precisely because they understood that human beings are not persuaded by facts, only occasionally by logic, but reliably, almost predictably, by emotion.

Two and a half millennia later, nothing has changed. What has changed is scale.