Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer
Lawyer - commercial and constitutional law, politician manque, bee farm, husband, mtb, skiing, hunting. stephenfranks.co.nz Wellington Joined April 2011-
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@CranmerWrites There is one country missing from membership of the CC... that is Israel, despite applying for membership, they were rejected by the CC with no reason given. 🤔
Yesterday Prime Minister Luxon ended his post Cabinet press conference by addressing the question about whether the government will continue to support Jacinda Ardern as the special envoy for the Christchurch Call. "We will have more to say about that very very shortly,…
Was the Fast-track Bill created to bypass corruption? In Dr Muriel Newman's latest article she reveals what seems to be corruption by Iwi and Forrest and Bird. Here's some main points from her article: 2010: Meridian Energy seek resource consents. Ngai Tahu object based on…
Germany's new gender self-ID law is a triumph of woke ideology over biological reality. Women's rights and children's safety have been cast to the wind. So-called deadnaming can lead to fines of up to €10,000. This is horrifying, says Sabine Beppler-Spahl buff.ly/3UCejgC
Why would you call for rent control if you think housing is a human right? Rent control is about protecting current tenants, and harming people who may become tenants in the future. If housing is a human right, you should be focused on those without housing, surely?
Why would you call for rent control if you think housing is a human right? Rent control is about protecting current tenants, and harming people who may become tenants in the future. If housing is a human right, you should be focused on those without housing, surely?
Universities should be the very place we expect to hear provocative speech, and ideas that may make us uncomfortable. If universities are pandering to students too afraid to hear opinions that differ from their own, what is the point of the university, now?
Free Speech Union to hold panel discussion on free speech if Victoria University doesn’t The Free Speech Union has written to the Council of Victoria University to advise them that they will hold the postponed panel discussion on free speech if the university doesn’t, says…
The school released this memo to students on Friday outlining what was not acceptable and the consequences if they decided they didn't want to follow the rules.
Good news, kids. It's OK; words aren't violence.
Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic…
Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic…
Yours looks to be a typical view of this appointment from the MPC. Are you confident it is not prompted mainly by resentment of democracy’s disrespect for your class? Why not wait and see? I’ve heard substantial praise for her cunning, energy and penetration. I value that more…
Yours looks to be a typical view of this appointment from the MPC. Are you confident it is not prompted mainly by resentment of democracy’s disrespect for your class? Why not wait and see? I’ve heard substantial praise for her cunning, energy and penetration. I value that more…
"The joint probability that you have a Trans kid AND a Pansexual kid is one in 9 million. The odds that you're a pathological narcissist sacrificing your own children to the glorification of your compassion is 8,999,999 to ONE... Are you a devouring mother?" -- Jordan Peterson
“The pathetic impulse to appease has allowed Muslim extremism to flourish in our midst.” Read my latest in @DailyMail on Salman Rushdie, terrorism, and the growing radical Islamist threat in Europe. dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
Yes. I hope NZ is watching. Utterly superfluous legislation
The Scottish Greens have done untold damage to Scotland. They declared war on industry and economic growth. Every green scheme they launched ended in disaster. Why were their mad ideas indulged for so long?, asks Malcolm Clark buff.ly/44k3VNS
When The Bell Curve was published, hundreds of writers and media figures and celebrities (few if any of whom had any scientific background or had bothered to read the book) condemned it in a signed statement. But 52 leading intelligence scientists endorsed the scientific…
When The Bell Curve was published, hundreds of writers and media figures and celebrities (few if any of whom had any scientific background or had bothered to read the book) condemned it in a signed statement. But 52 leading intelligence scientists endorsed the scientific…
"For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." Excerpt from Endurance
If we are to bring in refugees... couldnt we at least pick some capable of working? stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350255…
The Christchurch Call is working with the Australian e-Safety Commissioner to force Elon Musk to remove a video at the global level (even though he's already geo-blocked it). Why is it our problem to fund an outfit that supports censors around the world? abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…
Some cultures have a birth rate that is above the replacement rate whereas the West does not. Hence, humans will still exist but civilizations rooted within the Western ethos will certainly die out, and be replaced by societies that are not very concerned with freedoms and…
Some cultures have a birth rate that is above the replacement rate whereas the West does not. Hence, humans will still exist but civilizations rooted within the Western ethos will certainly die out, and be replaced by societies that are not very concerned with freedoms and…
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Told my toddler to stop acting like an Ivy League university student.
'The postponement has starkly shown more than ever that the status quo is unacceptable and the Government does need to intervene to ensure universities live up to their statutory obligations around academic freedom and free speech.' @dpfdpf @KiwiblogDPF kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/04/vic_un…
'So, knowledge has been evacuated from the curriculum, teachers have been sidelined, and students must find their own paths. Yet critical thinking remains essential. In other words, students must teach themselves to think critically about nothing.' nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-me…
We have to take these guys at their word. They were always open about their objectives. we are sleepwalking into something really nasty.
QUIET PART OUT LOUD Watch: Some Islamists in the UK are planning to over take the system. “How can we reestablish the caliphate again?”
@franks_lawyer Being an overtly highly partisan figure should disqualify one from being appointed to some public roles, but perhaps not others. Pharmac and the RB are made independent and powerful on the implied promise that appointees won’t be partisan figures but command broader respect.
@DiackChris @franks_lawyer Making the most of a constrained budget and ensuring that choices really are made on technocratic grounds, rather than public or political pressure/campsigns. But yes the CEO seemed to need sorting out.
@MHReddell @franks_lawyer Scan looking over the minutes of the Pharmac Board its pretty technical. I noted that Bennett specifically mentioned organisational culture in her public statements.
@DiackChris @franks_lawyer It is not impossible Bennett could be v good at board governance (altho she has no track record in that) but the reason for being wary of highly partisan figures in such roles is not that they can't do the job, but that it is hard to establish/maintain wider public trust.
@welliejaffa @franks_lawyer But is she enough of a thug?
When schools go phone free, this is what always seems to happen: Kids spend far more time talking to each other, playing, and laughing. School is more fun, and, as a side benefit, they learn more. Let's make all schools phone free next fall.
Cally and Daniel talking about the positive impact of a genuinely phone-free school with @BBCNewsnight @JonHaidt 'We are talking with our friends more!' Children @TJWA are now socialising more, they are playing, laughing. It has changed our whole school culture
We have written to the Council of @VicUniWgtn saying that if they don't hold the panel on free speech within a month, and allow us to participate, we'll host our own event (perks of being a union that can hold meetings on an employer's premises). We also told them: "Whether…
@CranmerWrites its code for "shut up woman" it is really important work to shut up woman who braid hair and love their girls
@CranmerWrites End it. Why is the unelected, unaccountable authoritarian CCAN issuing directives to govts and twitter. Not just on general "commitments", but ordering twitter to do specific take downs of factual content. It is important that crimes and wars are public, accurate & transparent.
@CranmerWrites All that really matters here is Luxon's "It's important work" It tells you all that you need to know.
@aniobrien I’m a bewildered nzer. I would have thought Winston would have rocketed up in the polls. A simple comparison between his foreign affairs efforts and those of his predecessor are stark? Immaculately attired and fêted the contrast beggars belief, as does the reaction of our public
Too many sports orgs have been totally captured by the new religion of gender ideology, just as @SportNZ has here. It comes at a huge cost to females, incl. those too afraid to speak up & those who miss out on fairness, safety & opportunities in their sports. Enough already!
Sharron Davies backs campaigners calling for Sport England's diversity chief to be fired dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…