On this day in 1947 (29/11/1947) the United Nations gave the Arabs living under the British Mandate of Palestine the chance to create a Palestinian State. It would have been the first time in history that a state of Palestine existed. But the Arabs said no - and began a civil

All the truck drivers caught in licence fraud who are not NZ citizens should be immediately publicly named abd deported. To tell everyone that we are determined to restore routine honesty as a minimum obligation in our formerly high trust society.

In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years. 1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the

In 25 years’ time it will be 2000 years since Paul sailed from Troas to Macedonia, bringing Christianity to Europe for the first time. I hope that big celebrations are planned by the Christian world. But first: do we all agree that this event took place in 50 A.D?

#Bornonthisday, Keith Miller flew fighter bombers in World War Two. He survived nights over Germany dodging gunfire and crash landed when his engine failed. Years later, when Michael Parkinson asked him about pressure, Miller smiled and said: “Pressure is a Messerschmitt up

🚨 MARCO RUBIO JUST DROPPED THE TRUTH BOMB: The U.S. has full authority to deny visas before entry — and revoke them if someone becomes a threat to our national security. That’s exactly what’s coming. Turn it up. 🔥 Rubio didn’t mince words: “A student visa is not a right.

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And after speed limits were raised

@AustralianJA Hi 👋🏻 I made this video. https://t.co/phfSSwRINY

“It’s the Jews”! In memory of lost friendships.

The first Thanksgiving in the United States was a Latin Mass by Spanish Catholics in Florida. https://t.co/nv7Mquyt3Y

Enemy of the people.

Labour parties are economic vandals @nzlabour

UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch slams every leftist "for the working man" poseur everywhere. A brilliant fighting speech that not only smashes the UK Labour party leader Starmer & his useless Chancellor Rachel Reeves, but Chris Hipkins, Chloe Swarbrick and every

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Aiden Markram has become just the third fielder in FC history to take 9 catches in a match. Walter Hammond is the only one to take 10 (Glos v Surrey 1928). Hammond also scored a century in each innings and opened the bowling, dismissing Jack Hobbs #INDvRSA

Chris Bishop is an exemplar kiwi mid-ness. His ambition is simultaneously high and fundamentally low. He aims for high office not due to some felt calling, but rather because it is high. As such his motivations are incoherent, and his actions absurd.

Not all the proponents of Vatican Two's reforms were men of goodwill, but some certainly were. They dreamed of reuniting Christendom which, during the Cold War, meant ignoring the Orthodox. The most promising possibilities for reunification were the Anglican and Lutheran

Any Ukraine-Russia peace plan has to: 1) Stop the killing while preserving Ukrainian sovereignty. 2) Be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine. 3) Maximize the chances the war doesn't restart. Every criticism of the peace framework the administration is working on either

Not totally. But that is not the whole story. The Crusades were an essential part of the 1000-year effort to stop Islam. Each bit counted. And each tiny piece kept Muslim expansion in check. But the most important part of the Crusades was the crusading spirit, without which