The Hand Mirror

In 2009/10, communities won a serious victory against this government when the hated, poorly conceived, cost-cutting travesty that was the ...

This National government has found it's foreshore and seabed. It's not been enough to flirt with punitive legislative changes to ...

Don Brash is my father. Not in a Darth Vader way.  But sadly, I don't believe Dr Brash's views are so way out we should just laugh...

Caitlin Moran and others have pointed out that the fashion for removing all pubic hair from ladyparts arose from the proliferation of pornog...

If you thought Donald Trump's widely condemned call for women who have abortions to be punished was totally off the wall, think again. I...

Most people have done something for which they want to be forgiven.  Things they feel ashamed of, and want to do differently in the future. ...

Trigger warning: child sexual abuse, victim blaming, rape culture. It's official, Mr "Prominent Man" was not convicted of i...

Back in the 1960s, when the Pill became available in Aotearoa New Zealand, the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association (the p...

The Doris Gordon Memorial Trust:  Honouring Our Prejudiced Past? By Morgan Healey and Alison McCulloch     Over 2015, the US witnessed ...

Cross posted from my usual spot Most people have heard the ‘canary in the mine” thing, but I’m just going to quickly explain.   Back in ...

Cross Posted from my usual spot. Keyboard warriors… people with nothing better to do… SJWs, unsuccessful IRL… not helping in the REAL...

In the last week I have had cramps bad enough to require pain killers; I have lost enough blood to warrant taking a prescribed clotting a...

In recent public debate about child poverty blame has been laid once again on parents having too many children.  Correspondents and opinion...