The Short and Long of It

Mark Honeychurch - 27 May 2024

I’m going to keep my intro short this week, because our articles are pretty long and I don’t want to bore you all before you even get to the first one - which is an article from someone we’ve not heard from before, Darren Bird. Darren’s written about ACT’s new proposed bill attempting to legislate the use of bathrooms - and if you think it sounds suspicious, you’d be right. After Darren we have a piece from Craig, who has looked at someone who’s fascinated me for a little while now, Don Murray; I’ve spent some time clicking through his website over the last few months, and still can’t get to grips with him and what he thinks his special powers are. Thankfully Craig’s done a nice job of summarising some of his nonsense.

Bronwyn and I visited the School of Practical Philosophy here in Wellington this weekend, and have both written a piece about this fascinating group. While Bronwyn did the hard work of actually looking up facts and detailing their history and controversy, I’ve just written about my experience at their Open Day on Saturday. Finally I’ve thrown in a hopefully funny conversation I’ve had for the last month or more with a scammer pretending to be actor Jason Momoa - and, given the length of this newsletter, I won’t be offended if you skip it!