David Farrar: More cultural genocide hysteria

Erica Stanford made the pretty obvious decision that books designed to teach kids English should use English words, and the usual suspects are claiming it is everything from white supremacy to cultural genocide. I don;’t think they realise that when they scream that at every issue every week, it becomes meaningless.

Anyway Sir Ian Taylor has a useful explanation which is below.

Professor Ananish Chaudhuri: Ian Taylor is entitled to his opinion but not his facts

Recently Ian Taylor wrote a column in Stuff taking issue with David Seymour’s rise to Deputy Prime Minister. According to Taylor, Seymour’s rise to the second seat is far beyond Seymour’s mandate.

It is not clear whether Taylor was similarly outraged, when Winston Peters became Deputy Prime Minister since NZ First’s vote share in 2023 was similar to ACT’s; or when Winston Peter crowned Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister in 2017 even though Labour received a much smaller share of votes compared to National in that election.