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Health Troughers Demand You Suffer So Others Can Be Saved From Themselves
If the Health Coalition wants to keep framing the issue as industry greed versus public good, it should at least drop the pretence that its solutions respect individual agency. They do not.
NZME turns its own radio stunt into political news
“We all know it wasn’t a serious death threat.”
Petrol could reach $3.30 as oil shock worsens, economist says
“Things have been getting worse, not better.”
Top earners carry bulk of income tax burden, Taxpayers’ Union says
The top 10 per cent paid more income tax than the bottom 80 per cent combined.
US hits New Zealand with higher tariff over forced-labour safeguards
“It’s well past time for our trading partners to do the same.”
A Second-Term 3-Way Wastes More Years
I am concerned about the possibility of Labour winning this election. However, I’m equally concerned that the next three years will be wasted by New Zealand First being part of the government after November 7.
Change Comes From Within, Paul Henry
Every regime ends. Unfortunately, this one won’t end soon and Henry’s grandchildren will almost certainly live in a future that is more ‘egalitarian’, more broken and far, far, more communist than today.
My Thoughts on the Opportunist Party
The Opportunity Party is like a new Whittaker’s chocolate bar on display near the check-out – for a week or so everyone will be putting it in their trolley. But pretty soon, when they realise how uninspiring the ingredients are, it will be in the bargain bin along with the expired crunchy bars.
Paul Henry’s Silly Game and Labour’s Predictable Meltdown
Paul Henry played a dumb game and gave a dumb answer. Labour turned it into a full-scale moral panic. One of those is funny. The other is just sad.
Luxon Slams Jones as ‘Crass’ While Grovelling to Modi Over Doomed India FTA
Shane Jones is speaking for the forgotten Kiwis who are sick of being lectured and ignored. Luxon can keep bowing to Modi if he likes. The rest of us will watch his poll numbers do the same.
Wayne Brown’s Fundraiser Meltdown: Gangsta Mayor’s Tall Tales Exposed
Do not expect any accountability. My prediction is simple. Wayne Brown will brazen it out, bully anyone who dares speak against him and his council will roll over as usual.
The House of Temperance
We increasingly lack in public life a true sense of honour among those who are meant to serve us, not rule over us. There is nothing sober about a government that allows itself to become deformed through the tendency to tyrannical rule.
Science Saturday
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We Built an 18th Century Frontier Fort by Hand - Start to Finish
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Will Government RMA Reforms Protect Farmers? Federated Farmers Weigh In
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Editors’ Picks
How High Did the Grooming Cover Up Go?
UK PM implicated in Muslim child-rape gang scandal.
Most of the Covid Tyrants Are Gone, What Next?
Ardern, Biden and Trudeau are now gone. But where to from here?
Continued Contempt of Parliament from Te Pāti Māori
If they don’t like the institution of parliament and its standing orders, then they can always go back to the mat.