# martyn bradbury (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover martyn bradbury. Page: Feed: --- ## [#Opinion | Globally Hot, Locally Not: The Shameful Contradiction in How Aotearoa Treats Māori Culture](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/21/opinion-globally-hot-locally-not-the-shameful-contradiction-in-how-aotearoa-treats-maori-culture/) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ You know something is wrong with a country when its Indigenous culture is globally hot but locally not. I was reminded of that watching rugby recently. Among the thousands of \[…\] The post #Opinion | Globally Hot, Locally Not: The Shameful Contradiction in How Aotearoa Treats Māori Culture appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## [Krasnov is a criminal](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/krasnov-is-criminal.html) _2026-08-20 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "While Trump makes love to Kim Jong Un and betrays U.S. ally South Korea, North Korean ballistic missiles are slamming into Kyiv . "Trump blocks Ukraine from buying or making missile interceptors for Patriot air defence systems, helping the Russian/North Korean attacks get through." ~ Michael McKay \[cartoon by "KT"\] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with… ## [Government Failure](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/government-failure.html) _2026-08-20 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ “ W hen government engages in a losing venture, it gets doubled in size. But in a market system, if somebody engages in a losing venture, he has to go out of business.” ~ Milton Friedman Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution. ## ["Postmodernism has created a generation of semi-psychotic, semi-neurotic, ignorant, and hostile whim-worshippers."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/postmodernism-has-created-generation-of.html) _2026-08-19 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ P hilosopher Stephen Hicks writes on the long reach of postmodern philosophy , its insistence on the social construction of reality, and its practical results in the Arday tragedy. If influential philosophers teach that “reality” is merely a social construct, then what happens to us in the next, taught generation? We focus primarily on the social — on doing whatever we can to construct social… ## ["What's far worse than the Arday tragedy is the philosophical state of higher education that erodes all of this."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/whats-far-worse-than-arday-tragedy-is.html) _2026-08-17 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "\[ W \] omen, men, of all backgrounds discover, invent and create in ways that uplift themselves and others, thousands, millions ... applying reason, thought, research, enquiry and philosophy to humanity, the world and the universe. ... "\[W\]hat's far worse than the Arday tragedy is the philosophical state of higher education that erodes all of this." ~ Liberty Scott from his post ' The real tragedy… ## ["Your needs don't automatically become claims on somebody else's effort"](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/your-needs-dont-automatically-become.html) _2026-08-17 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " C apitalism says inequality can exist, but your needs don't automatically become claims on somebody else's effort. You produce, trade, improve yourself, or persuade others to help voluntarily. "Socialism teaches the opposite moral lesson: need itself creates an entitlement and someone else's success creates the corresponding obligation. Follow that premise far enough and failure never teaches… ## [Wealth taxes](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/wealth-taxes.html) _2026-08-16 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "Defenders of a billionaire tax need to show that government officials would better allocate the relevant resources than billionaire entrepreneurs themselves," says Chris Freiman , "but I’ve yet to see any of them make that case." Discuss. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution. ## [#OPINION: Te Pāti Māori Has the People Power — Now Comes the Test at the Ballot Box](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/16/opinion-te-pati-maori-has-the-people-power-now-comes-the-test-at-the-ballot-box/) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ If political campaign launches are supposed to demonstrate energy, organisation and momentum, then Te Pāti Māori had all three in Tairāwhiti this morning. From the welcome onto Te Poho o \[…\] The post #OPINION: Te Pāti Māori Has the People Power — Now Comes the Test at the Ballot Box appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## ["Freedom of speech includes the freedom not to agree, not to listen and not to support one's own antagonists." But not to ban them.](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/freedom-of-speech-includes-freedom-not.html) _2026-08-13 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "\[ T \]he substantive issues of the case \[are\] whether four blog posts Bradbury made on his site, 'The Daily Blog,' about O’Brien breached the Harmful Digital Communications Act. ... The details of the posts can still not be publicised. ... She \[O'Brien\] said she had never sought to 'prevent Martyn Bradbury from criticising my politics, opinions, or public work'." ~ STUFF: ' ‘Not a free speech… ## [#OPINION: Free Speech, Apparently — But Only When the Free Speech Club Says So](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/13/opinion-free-speech-apparently-but-only-when-the-free-speech-club-says-so/) _2026-08-13 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ There is something deeply ironic about a high-profile member of the Free Speech Union turning to the courts seeking restrictions on speech she finds offensive. That is now the uncomfortable \[…\] The post #OPINION: Free Speech, Apparently — But Only When the Free Speech Club Says So appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HSTtQPt7pBLU) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Poverty](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/poverty.html) _2026-08-12 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." ~ Benjamin Franklin from his 1766… ## [#OPINION: Luxon Survived the Knife — Now Comes the Death of a Thousand Cuts](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/12/opinion-luxon-survived-the-knife-now-comes-the-death-of-a-thousand-cuts/) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ Christopher Luxon survived. But nobody should confuse survival with victory. The Prime Minister emerged from National’s extraordinary caucus meeting still leader of his party and still Prime Minister. Technically, that \[…\] The post #OPINION: Luxon Survived the Knife — Now Comes the Death of a Thousand Cuts appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## ["Sometimes both institutions and people pick up a firearm and blow both feet off. Cambridge University has done so with its gross mismanagement of the Jason Arday affair."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/sometimes-both-institutions-and-people.html) _2026-08-11 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " S ometimes both institutions and people pick up a firearm and blow both feet off. "Cambridge University has done so with its gross mismanagement of the Jason Arday affair . ... “The idea that historically disadvantaged groups are entitled to extra civil rights – coupled with social preferment – over and above those held/enjoyed by people considered their oppressors is inimical to the rule of… ## [Economic regulation: coercive rule by political appointees vs. freely negotiated prices](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/economic-regulation-coercive-rule-by.html) _2026-08-10 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "\[ M \] ost people hold, explicitly or implicitly, that without regulation, markets could, and sometimes would, spin off into disastrous excesses of one form or another. "The operative image of economic regulation is that of a huge truck without steering or brakes. 'We have to have those instruments of control, or the truck will go careening off the side of a cliff.' "The truth is that government… ## ["Children in households with the same low income suffer hardship disproportionately if their parent is on a benefit."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/children-in-households-with-same-low.html) _2026-08-10 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " T he source of income matters. A lot. "Children in households with the same low income suffer hardship disproportionately if their parent is on a benefit. ... "\[The so called Ministry for Social Development\] publishes a Child Poverty Report by Bryan Perry and has done so for many years ... The latest edition features a section on Children in 'working' and 'beneficiary' households. ... "For… ## ["He builds elaborate Keynesian models that treat consumer spending as the engine of prosperity..."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/he-builds-elaborate-keynesian-models.html) _2026-08-09 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ Paul Krugman : " He builds elaborate Keynesian models that treat consumer spending as the engine of prosperity, ignores the capital structure of the economy, and then acts surprised when manipulating aggregate demand produces distortions in real production. " P aul Krugman has spent three decades telling you that government spending cures recessions, that deficits don't matter when interest rates… ## [#OPINION: WHACK-A-MĀORI RADIO: WHEN OUTRAGE BECOMES THE NEWS](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/09/whack-a-maori-radio-when-outrage-becomes-the-news/) _2026-08-08 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ There is something deeply troubling about the way rongoā Māori has suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of talkback radio. Not because scrutiny of public spending is wrong. It isn’t. \[…\] The post #OPINION: WHACK-A-MĀORI RADIO: WHEN OUTRAGE BECOMES THE NEWS appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## ['How to Lose $35 Billion with Philosophy'](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-to-lose-35-billion-with-philosophy.html) _2026-08-07 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "What are the odds that the clueless young bro who created the biggest financial fiasco of the year is connected to the clueless young bro who created the biggest financial fiasco of the decade?" " I n the last few days, you may have heard about Leopold Aschenbrenner —the wonder kid hedge fund manager who lost tens of billions over the course of a few days. It’s the biggest financial fiasco of the… ## [#opinion: Why did we lose a champion like Dr Claire Achmad?](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/08/why-did-we-lose-a-champion-like-dr-claire-achmad/) _2026-08-07 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ As the Children’s Commissioner, Dr Claire Achmad was a passionate advocate for Children in Aotearoa. She supported Government policy when it worked and she was critical when it didn’t. Her \[…\] The post #opinion: Why did we lose a champion like Dr Claire Achmad? appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## [Universities do not exist to engage in social justice activism."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/universities-do-not-exist-to-engage-in.html) _2026-08-06 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " U niversities do not exist to promote 'marginalised voices.' They do not exist to promulgate social engineering experiments. "They do not exist to engage in social justice activism. "A university exists to expand the boundaries of human knowledge, to defend truth, and to create an ecosystem for intellectual enrichment. Once a university optimises the wrong variables, we end up with the… ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8SqA88Ew9nDa) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [#opinion: Rising unemployment figures shows that the Government that has no real plan for rangatahi.](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/06/rising-unemployment-figures-shows-that-the-government-that-has-no-real-plan-for-rangatahi/) _2026-08-05 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ Unemployment has risen to 5.6 percent, while the number of young people aged 15 to 24 who are not in employment, education or training has climbed to 94,600. That unemployment \[…\] The post #opinion: Rising unemployment figures shows that the Government that has no real plan for rangatahi. appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## ["One wonders whether the point of the Harmful Digital Communications Act, in the view of some MPs, is to silence critics.”](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/one-wonders-whether-point-of-harmful.html) _2026-08-05 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ “ N ew Zealand MPs are so keen to be seen to be 'doing something' about cyber-bullying that they are about to pass a poor piece of law that will do something terrible. If the Harmful Digital Communications Bill passes, MPs who feel sad because of a media story can have the publisher jailed.” ~ composite quote from 2015 from No Right Turn and Tim Watkin “\[Given\] that defamation would \[otherwise\]… ## [More on those envy taxes](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/more-on-those-envy-taxes.html) _2026-08-04 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " T hose who claim our tax system is unfair and fosters inequality typically quote Scandinavian countries as operating superior tax systems. The interesting thing is the top 10% of taxpayers in New Zealand pay a bigger share of the tax burden than their equivalents in the Nordic countries, at over 45%. Our northern counterparts have their top 10% shouldering less than 40% - even as low as 35% - of… ## [#Opinion: Forty Years After Cartwright, We Have Failed Wahine Again](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/05/forty-years-after-cartwright-we-have-failed-wahine-again/) _2026-08-04 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ Today should have been a day of reflection. On 5 August 1988, Judge Silvia Cartwright’s report exposed one of the darkest chapters in New Zealand’s medical history. Women with cervical \[…\] The post #Opinion: Forty Years After Cartwright, We Have Failed Wahine Again appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## ['It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.'](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-not-from-benevolence-of-butcher.html) _2026-08-04 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " A dam Smith’s most famous sentence remains one of the clearest statements in all of social science: "'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.' "The point is simple and profound. We do not rely on the kindness of strangers to put food on the table. We rely on their self-interest. "The butcher… ## [Who actually carries NZ’s tax burden?](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/who-actually-carries-new-zealands-tax.html) _2026-08-04 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "\[ W \]ho actually carries their share of New Zealand’s tax burden. \[Let's see\] how unfair and disproportionate New Zealand’s tax system is on higher earners. "The top 20 percent \[of income earners\] pay nearly two-thirds of all personal income tax. The top 10 percent pay more than the bottom 80 percent combined. And the top 1 percent contribute more \[tax\] than the entire bottom half of \[income… ## [Q: Is there a recipe for success?](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/q-is-there-recipe-for-success.html) _2026-08-03 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "Q: S ixty million American readers here fascinated by one thing—success. That is the aim of every American. Is there a recipe for it? "A: ... I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.... "\[N\]atural feelings are never enough. You have got to marry those natural… ## ["The 'AGI-is-near' community keeps committing the same logical fallacy over and over. Every time there’s an advance, I see the same error."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-agi-is-near-community-keeps.html) _2026-08-03 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " A stra, a new model that OpenAI is testing internally, is amazing. No denying that: "But at the same time, a whole raft of people, some fairly prominent, are running around making a deeply flawed argument about the implications. ... "\[One\] tweet went so far as to claim that “ the species just crossed a one-way threshold ”; Elon Musk took it as evidence that we had reached The Singularity . "Each… ## [Even people \*with\* a sense of humour should be barred](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/even-people-with-sense-of-humour-should.html) _2026-08-02 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " I don’t think people without much of a sense of humour should be allowed to determine what people with a sense of humour are allowed to laugh at.... "If you don't like something, don't watch it." ~ John Cleese Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link and attribution. ## [#opinion: Māori Futures](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/03/maori-futures/) _2026-08-02 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ One of the greatest challenges facing our communities is that too much of our effort is directed towards responding to problems after they emerge. We’ll always need hospitals, emergency housing, \[…\] The post #opinion: Māori Futures appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zd8NOvWYEvsy) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## ["Universities are, today, the most dangerous institution in this country.”](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/08/universities-are-today-most-dangerous.html) _2026-07-31 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ “ I feel that this country is being destroyed by its philosophy. Specifically, by its universities: the most dangerous thing in this country today are the universities, because they are teaching the kind of ideas that would necessarily have to lead to the destruction of this country.... "\[T\]oday, when all those institutions ... are preaching collectivism, mysticism, and above all altruism --… ## [#opinion: We Are Better Than This: Race-Baiting Has No Place in New Zealand Politics](https://waateanews.com/2026/08/01/we-are-better-than-this-race-baiting-has-no-place-in-new-zealand-politics/) _2026-07-31 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ Every election campaign has its defining moments. Sometimes they are moments of hope. Sometimes they are moments of vision. And sometimes they are moments that leave us asking whether we \[…\] The post #opinion: We Are Better Than This: Race-Baiting Has No Place in New Zealand Politics appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## ["Next they will be open to an Army without guns!'](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/next-they-will-be-open-to-army-without.html) _2026-07-30 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " The Post reports : "The Labour Party is open to the idea of a frigate-less Defence Force, saying it’s yet to take a position on replacing the ageing Anzac-class fleet. "Next they will be open to an Army without guns! "O’Connor said Labour hadn’t completely ruled out upgrading the frigates, though it was worth considering the technological advancements – and steep cost. "'We will have to maintain… ## [Something for (almost) nothing?](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/something-for-almost-nothing.html) _2026-07-28 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " T here is a very brief window in which mostly American hyperscale data centres could massively expand renewable energy generation in New Zealand, at their own expense, to the country’s much broader benefit. "I worry, though, that the country will miss the opportunity. ... "Right now, hyperscale datacentres are willing to pay a high premium for immediacy. Grid connections in the US can take… ## ["None of us are greedy. It’s only the other fellow who’s greedy."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/none-of-us-are-greedy-its-only-other.html) _2026-07-27 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ "Q: When you see the bad distribution of wealth, so few who have so much and so many who have nothing… did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether Greed's a good idea to run on? "A: W ell, first of all tell me: do you know of any society that does NOT run on greed? Do you think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? "And what is greed? None of us is… ## [Chlöe cries crocodile tears](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/chloe-cries-crocodile-tears.html) _2026-07-26 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ NEWS: 'Greens push for pause to big data centres consents, citing rising power prices.' " N et Zero and the deployment of wind and solar generation put far more upward pressure on power prices than AI data centres do. The NZ public have never had a say on whether NZ should pursue Net Zero or not. How about we have a referendum on this?" ~ Zaphodd BB "You'd think the Greens would want more data… ## [You cannot, yet, be serious](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/you-cannot-yet-be-serious.html) _2026-07-26 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " F or three decades the Odysseus of New Zealand politics has navigated the turbulent seas of electoral fortune. ... "The party has \[lately\] been on a recruitment drive. Is this time different; are we seeing a party in transition or the beginning of another operatic calamity? ... "Movements like the New Zealand Party, Opportunities Party and United Future struggle once their leaders depart the… ## [#opinion: More tertiary students struggle with living costs than ever before.](https://waateanews.com/2026/07/27/opinion-more-tertiary-students-struggle-with-living-costs-than-ever-before/) _2026-07-26 · Matthew Tukaki · Opinion Archives - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station_ For generations, New Zealanders have been told that if you work hard, get an education and build your skills, you’ll have the opportunity to succeed. Today, that promise is slipping \[…\] The post #opinion: More tertiary students struggle with living costs than ever before. appeared first on Waatea News: Māori Radio Station . ## [Billionaires...](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/billionaires.html) _2026-07-26 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " T he power which a \[b\]illionaire ... has over me is very much less than that which the smallest functionaire possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work." ~ Friedrich Hayek from his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Permission to republish is granted, with link… ## [The UK is apparently nostalgic … for the 1970s?](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-uk-is-apparently-nostalgic-for-1970s.html) _2026-07-23 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " I f all that’s holding the United Kingdom back is the country’s mood, then the arrival of Andy Burnham as prime minister might improve its prospects. Briefly. If the remedy also requires some particle of coherence and clarity about what the government needs to do, the prognosis is grim. The contradictions and absurdities that he’s ventured so far are remarkable even by the standards of modern… ## ["The wealth of nations is the work of the people, not of their governments."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-wealth-of-nations-is-work-of-people.html) _2026-07-22 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " T he wealth of nations is the work of the people, not of their governments. If they had no other maker of their wealth than their governments, all nations would be in misery. "Government represents an expense, a consumption of national wealth" ~ Juan Bautista Alberdi in his seminal 1854 book, Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederación Argentina según su Constitución de 1853 ('Economic… ## ["Wealth inequality isn't proof that you're being robbed."](https://pc.blogspot.com/2026/07/wealth-inequality-isnt-proof-that-youre.html) _2026-07-22 · Peter Cresswell · Not PC_ " W ealth inequality isn't proof that you're being robbed. It assumes successful people are partially your property and that their gains should have belonged to you. "Other people becoming productive doesn't make you poorer. It is precisely why ordinary people today live better than kings did centuries ago. "They don't owe you anything and aren't your property." ~ Rock Chartrand Content is…