It just shows that predators go where there is prey. Any place that has people in vulnerable situations must be required to have safeguarding protocols that are strictly adhered to. There are no "sacred classes" - no class of person is exempt from this ...
Well, if providing schools, hospitals, recreation facilities, clean and dry homes at reasonable rents is paternalistic that is fine. I know where I would have rather lived in the 19thC.
Saltaire and the others built by Victorian industrialists - many of them religious non-conformists, are still held up as model developments today. They replaced the Victorian slums - "back to back" housing with families in basements and one pit toilet at ...
Women spent their early days walking across the plains with their households on their backs, and a baby on their front. Even our female primate ancestors would have literally carried a child or two for most of their adult life. Women are built for ...
Really? Have you got some evidence to back up those claims? America is awash with angry young men with semi-automatic weapons. They shoot up schools, picture theaters, concerts and parades. Any good reasons this was just another one of those - helped ...
Your question is meaningless as it has no basis in reality.
Nobody is "assigned" anything at birth - unless it is is a collection of sexist stereotypes tied up in a pink or blue ribbon. Your sex is determined at the moment of conception and is with you all your life - bimodal and immutable. Your "gendered soul" has...
There is no such thing as am "LGBTQI+ community". There are same sex attracted people (LGB) and there are straight people. LGB people are resisting being force teamed with collections of straight people whose interests are not our interests and in some ...
Always happy to see an evidence based argument.
Only followed by this one. "Nobody has been this disappointed by 2 inches since Stormy Daniels".
The various incarnations of WINZ have always been like that. Nearly 40 years ago when my sweetie and I first got together she was on the "dole" and absolutely dreaded the periodic visits to ensure the continuation of her benefit. Although she now has a ...
A product of Sunny's transactional approach to politics. "I do this for you therefore you will do this for me". He waka jumped from Labour because they were not prepared to give him the rewards to which he thought he should be entitled. Now, the NACTs want...
Apart from sticking a name in Google - there may be a limit to the sort of "background checks" that can lawfully be done on a candidate. One is very reliant on personal contact. If there is not a well established local Party Branch to consult - or if that ...
A serial candidate in the Eden/Albert ward of Auckland City Council was prosecuted some years ago for forging the signatures of his nominators.
No, they have been captured by people who are too chicken to say that lesbians don't have penises.
Hendon Ave has been reworked with raised pedestrian crossings and a new "cross town" bus link that affords access to New North Rd for CBD buses and goes to Avondale and New Lynn. There is some nice planting and there were already good street trees which ...
If you drive along Hendon Ave in Owairaka you can see an amazing transformation of the previous built environment. Gone are the old "State Houses", bult in the 1950's out of 6 varieties of tacky boarding and held together with thumb tacks. Houses where the...
They are welcome. However the questions have to be asked about why drag has morphed from the midnight show at a Gay bar or Club into something suitable for preschoolers at 10am without so much as a costume change. And you can't sanitise "womanface" by ...
What do you do when you commission research into an important topic and then you don't like the results? The Economist shows that in this case, the answer was to try and influence the results and then suppress them where possible. https://archive.ph/lyvdp ...
Knew him in Wellington in the 1970's. He was what was referred to as a "Trot" (Trotskyist) and I hung around with what was sometimes known as the "Moscow Circus". Despite the sectarianism of the age - he was a good chap, and spent his life working for ...
Most of the Plans I dealt with had the ability to build a minor unit of up to 60m2 as a permitted activity in most Zones as long as the basic bulk and location requirements were met. Subsequently, other Plans have also made this easier. I don't think that ...
The NACTs are appealing to a demographic of people who have grown up with a lot of emotional investment in what, where and how they drive. A big part of their self esteem revolves around their vehicles and their ability to use them. They are used to ...
Absolutely. In one of my past employments I had access to a regular synopsis of Environment Court decisions. I was very concerned with the number of instances where finally, a Council had been pushed by repeated infringements of Land Use Consents for ...
They got closer to knowing in Scotland when Nicola Sturgeon tried to convince voters that a convicted double rapist claiming identity as a woman should be incarcerated in a woman's prison. He husband playing fast and loose with Party finances hastened her ...
One of the few advantages of a Tory government - healthy outdoor exercise and catching up with old friends!
The main question will be - did they photocopy any part of the Census to use for making political contacts? Having been a Census collector in the past and signed the relevant security documents, I know that is the legal point here. Nobody cares that they ...
Are they still maintaining that they do not know what a woman is?
Yes, my family, and that of my partner are a good example. Us "Boomers" are "6 varieties of white bread" - mostly British ancestry. Thanks to some excellent marriages, the next generation is very diverse, mingling with Maori, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and ...
The rental property 2 down from us has been owned by the same landlord for many years. He has done nothing to maintain the property in at least the last 10 years. It meets none of the healthy homes standards, the bathroom is so rotten it is about to fall ...
Relevant to what was discussed here a couple of days ago. Well referenced and supported. Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/ Just in case anyone is still running the lines about "...
You might want to look again at the Cass Review report. It details very well why there is no good evidence base for the efficacy of "gender affirming care" for young people. Part of the reason is that any attempt to do good research about rates of regret -...
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