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Wakefield in Aotearoa will forever be known as the home to a particularly famous man - the nutcase who put up a statue of Nixon. #TeTauIhu
“Three policemen, falling upon one unarmed student, were beating him with their riot sticks. Nobody was stopping them. The sound was clear & terrible. ‘What the hell,’ said Weed Atman. It was a moment of light, in which the true nature of the police was being revealed to him.”

On Pynchon’s Vineland
The Novel and the Secret Police
In Vineland, his underappreciated 1990 novel, Thomas Pynchon anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.
www.bostonreview.net
January 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Legislation Returns Land to Māori in Te Tauihu, Ending 180-Year Dispute

A bill to return more than 3,000 hectares of land in Te Tauihu to its original Māori owners has passed its final reading in Parliament, settling a land dispute that…

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Legislation Returns Land to Māori in Te Tauihu, Ending 180-Year Dispute
A bill to return more than 3,000 hectares of land in Te Tauihu to its original Māori owners has passed its final reading in Parliament, settling a land dispute that dates back nearly two centuries.
www.newzealandmagazine.com
August 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM