During my medical struggles a few years ago and in my work as a therapist who helps people recover from severe trauma, I have learned a thing or two about the search for peace.

In our hyper-sexualised, mechanistic, technocratic culture, we have not only separated the sexual act from love and human relationships, but we have also fallen prey to the myth that sex is some sort of highly technical act that cannot be navigated without the aid of modern self-proclaimed experts in sex education.

At least the Chinese authorities are trying to do something to fight the apocalyptic crisis their ideology has inflicted on their people. Will our Western leaders ever do the same?

The events which unfolded last week in New Zealand around the speaking tour of UK women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (AKA Posie Parker), culminating in an act of mob violence at a peaceful public rally last Saturday, are an extremely serious wake up call for anyone who cares about maintaining a just and stable civil order in our country.

Once again, this is where Luxon was weak in Sunday’s speech, playing it safe by serving up the milquetoast manure of the management classes rather than any deeper and more meaningful vision of the human experience, leadership and societal greatness.

Political commentator Matthew Hooten has told the AM Show that that he believes New Zealand's Opposition and Governing parties should consider forming a grand coalition to keep minority parties out of power. Here’s why I think that’s a terrible idea.

If you want genuine understanding, and dialogue without the unhelpful diatribe and derision, then you’ll definitely want to give Stuff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ a miss.

The claim that ‘the culture wasn’t ready for the overturn of Roe v Wade’ has now started doing the rounds on social media. There’s just one problem: this idea suffers from several glaringly fatal flaws.

Tradition is the future… for those willing to embrace, live, and safeguard it - and in doing so, they craft a legacy that will be received with profound gratitude by the next generation.

Bethlehem College, a Christian school in Tauranga, has found itself embroiled in a spiralling firestorm of lies, harassment and media complicity after a gay activist decided to target them with spurious allegations of discrimination.

Over the weekend, the National Party announced its new gang policy. It strikes me that there are two important aspects to this issue, but frustratingly, only one of them is dominating the public discourse right now.

Jacinda Ardern may view herself as a sort of spiritual successor to the great Benazir Bhutto, but where it matters most they are polls apart.