Pologne : énorme défaite pour l’Eurogaga Donald Tusk dans son coup d’État ! ⤵️
La Cour suprême polonaise vient en effet d’annuler les ordonnances du 30 octobre 2026 émises par la présidente nommée par Tusk, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, qui suspendaient les fonctions de Bogdan… pic.twitter.com/OV46KgWKAX
Men who breastfeed their babies are protected by discrimination laws.
The Sex Discrimination Commissioner confirmed anti-discrimination protections extended to men who identify as women and induce lactation. Employers must provide them with breastfeeding breaks and facilities. We’re talking about men using hormones and medications to artificially induce lactation, a process their bodies do NOT naturally undergo in the same way as women after childbirth. Protected. By law.
Reader Karen comments:
Where will it stop? You imagine the next generation of police officers, nurses, teachers etc who think that they are cats, dogs etc trying to do their job while being a cat. And everyone having to pretend it is normal. When I did my nurse training 30 years ago, we were told that if someone in front of you is delusional, pretending to be something they are not, we were to quietly remind them of the truth. Not play along with their delusion; nowadays it is an offence to not play along.
I feel sorry for the babies these men are trying to breastfeed. Wouldn’t it be a form of child abuse?
Very Few Buildings in New Zealand have such intimate links with childhood experience and memories. –Margaret Tennant
From Rotorua to Otaki Beach
About five years ago Anthony Dreaver spoke to the Kapiti Historical Society about the closed Otaki Health Camp and invited members of the audience to visit the site at Otaki Beach. A few of us did and we were impressed with the parts of the old Health Camp which had been restored. However, it was sad to see that the sizeable Rotunda which had been the boys’ dormitory in which about 60 primary age lads slept, was in a bad state of repair.
Soon after, with the initiative of Di Buchan, a charitable trust was set up to coordinate the Friends of the Otaki Rotunda and to restore the building, which had started life in Rotorua as part of the King George V Military Hospital. This important facility was built in 1916 to care for casualties from World War One.
In 1931 the Rotunda was dismantled and moved to Otaki Beach where local businessman Byron Brown had provided land for the first permanent Children’s Health Camp.
Health stamps to fund the camps
The first health stamp was issued close to Christmas in 1929, and first day covers and miniature sheets as well as stamps came out every year until 2016. Many older readers will recall collecting the stamps, covers and sheets. The money raised from the sales were a vital source of funds for Health Camps like Otaki.
Some philatelists will recall that a few of these stamps became very valuable. As a kid in the 1960s I could never raise enough pocket money and lawn mowing cash to buy the ‘red boy’ or the ‘blue boy’ from the Stamp Shop in Wellington‘s Cable Car Lane.
The Rotunda comes to life
Last Sunday we went to witness Shakespeare in the Rotunda and were amazed to see the largely restored landmark featuring secondary students performing excerpts from Henty V, A Midsummer Night Dream, Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost and a couple of sonnets.
It was great to see students making full use of the centre stage and the pathways and surrounding areas behind the chairs in an exhilarating and enthusiastic rendition of the works of the bard.
It is so pleasing to know that there are still secondary school pupils who love Shakespeare. Many older readers like me will recall the joy of studying a play in depth each year which included remembering plenty of lines – I recall knowing Mark Antony’s entire speech from Julius Caesar – plus the wonderful sonnet on Brutus – This was the noblest Roman of them all.
There is still some work to do to finish off the rotunda restoration, however thanks to the work of the Trust under Di Buchan’s leadership, the efforts of volunteers and the generosity of local trades people and firms, this ‘Wonder of the Kapiti Coast’ is nearly complete. It will soon be regularlyavailable for concerts, plays, wedding receptions and gatherings of various sorts.
The ban since 2014 has also included the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas. Since the Mohammed Morsi regime was ousted in 2013, Egypt has taken a hard line on Political Islam: it also closed 27,000 mosques under 80 m2, banned 55,000 imans from preaching, and has required all sermons to be approved by the Al-Azhar University in Cairo which removes any traces of jihad.
Representatives from Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine met in Abu Dhabi for nearly 4 hours of talks on Tuesday, with the Trump Admin pitching plans for a new security architecture. Envoys from France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the EU were notable in town… but NOT allowed in the room.
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described it: “The Europeans flew to Abu Dhabi – well, let them sit in the hotel.”
Irish Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst, Chay Bowes, noted that while Russia is demonstrating that it is in the driver’s seat here, the Europeans are being exposed in their weak attempts to stay relevant by following U.S. orders and pledging their support for Kiev… to the last Ukrainian.
