Lenin, after reading a single book on New Zealand: “A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”

Philip Matthews Definitely. Dawkins is worse than uneducated on this topic because he's only ever engaged with one side of it - a side which (seemingly deliberately) mislead him about what actually happens here. Extremely unscientific approach. spectator.co.uk/article/why-im…

He could sell his seven houses and get a tattoo

I saw this reply earlier and wondered: do they mean Nick Cave or Richard Dawkins? But it was Michael Laws.

Saying the Germans were bad, but the Chinese were twice as bad, is a trivialisation or minimisation of the Holocaust

Reading (finally)

A classic, most excellent news team covering a grand moment in Aotearoa history. They did well 1News TVNZ+

A visitor from Moscow

Sad news Kiwi TV star Nigel Latta reveals terminal cancer diagnosis: Pyschologist has under year to live nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/…

News: Blaze Media has fired Lauren Chen, who was linked to Russian influence operation semafor.com/article/09/05/…

A very good thread on Dawkins and science

They say “reviewer of books” like it’s a bad thing

Should come as no surprise that every single right wing pundit that was getting millions of dollars in Russian funding has been pushing non stop propaganda about the dangers of the United States becoming more LGBTQ+

You don't have to look very far to see where a lot of this "matauranga isn't science" stuff comes from

Wonderful front. We two ex-Press journos are very happy. Many battles fought between journalists and management to get to this front page. Had to make a case for using every single common Māori word apart from place names. Using whanau + iwi in copy were fought over for months

Just wondering if this NZ media outlet has done anything about the Kingitanga movement this week

Dawkins has had some success but he never won (nor will he ever win) Best Reviewer at the NZ Voyager Media Awards

Thank you anonymous numbers real person account