Matua Kahurangi: Why is NZ’s mainstream media so quiet on the UK train stabbings?

In the UK, a horrific attack unfolded aboard a train travelling from Doncaster to London. The service made an emergency stop at Huntingdon station after a man went on a stabbing rampage that left eleven people injured, one of them fighting for their life. Police later confirmed the suspect was a 32-year-old Black British man and that the attack was not being treated as terrorism related.

David Farrar: Info the media just don’t report

Michael Johnston explains well:

Learning to read is the first step in school education. It is essential to later learning. At first, it is also very difficult.

Things are made much easier for beginning readers if they are explicitly taught the regular correspondences between spelling and sound. It enables them to sound out words they haven’t seen in written form before, provided they know those words in spoken form.

Peter Williams: James Shaw (not) BA

Greens co-leader telling porkies about his academic record

The thing about politicians is that you have to be able to trust them, and to gain trust it helps if they tell the truth about their life and times and background before they went into politics.

For some bizarre reason James Shaw, Minister for Climate Change and co-leader of the Green Party, is telling the world through social media network LinkedIn that he has a BA from Victoria University.