The editorial in the Weekend Herald this morning makes the common and fundamental error that there are degrees of racism.
Racial discrimination does real harm when it is practised by members of a race with power, usually a democratic majority. When discrimination favours a minority, to preserve its identity perhaps, or boost its educational enrolments, it [...]

I know I am showing my age a bit here, but I can remember the days when newspapers used to report actual news. This is in direct contrast to this morning’s Herald (it certainly is “the weak-end” Herald). We have the mercurial Hone Harawira admitting to skipping official meetings (the ones we paid for him [...]

If there was ever a good reason for canning the Race Relations Commissioner, the latest antics of Joris De Bres would be it. Going to a conference that most of the Western world is boycotting, where the leader of one of the most intolerant societies in the world is down to deliver a one-sided diatribe [...]