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Hipkins Still Won’t Say Sorry – And Aucklanders Should Never Let Him Forget It
Until Hipkins finds the guts to say sorry properly, Labour can forget about regaining trust from the city that suffered most. Aucklanders remember the trauma.
Court ruling exposes unlawful expulsion inside Te Pāti Māori
“Perhaps most fundamentally, the relevant tikanga principles … were not applied in any way.”
Trump’s NZ ambassador pick targets defence and minerals
“In advancing the President’s agenda, we have few better partners than New Zealand.”
NZ enters ninth COVID wave as hospitalisations rise
50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths involving COVID in the past week.
Oil price shock rattles NZ economy
“A pretty substantial shock that is negative for activity and growth.”
Will the Coalition Survive the Iran War?
Perhaps the only thing the Government can do to stabilise fuel prices is to speed up the demise of the Islamic Republic and fire a few missiles of our own?
The Lost Art of Getting Frustrated
The real engine of progress must be a population that spends its days grappling with imperfect machines and frustrating activities. That is where the ideas are born, and ideas are the only way to solve any problem.
The Ayatollah Try-Outs
I feel the mullahs of Tehran were a mite hasty in going with one of their own. There are other just as worthy candidates far beyond their shores.
If Not America, Then What?
America may be a flawed hegemon but it’s easily better than all the alternatives.
We Are Finally Waking Up
This is what late-stage institutional decay looks like. Not a dramatic collapse, but a slow, grinding loss of competence and legitimacy – where the government’s primary function shifts from solving problems to perpetuating itself.
DEI May Be Gone in Name, but the Enforcers Still Hold the Power
Bureaucracies do not abandon governing philosophies: they preserve them. Winning the policy war is not enough. Lasting reform requires restructuring who decides – not simply rewriting what is declared.
Science Saturday
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David Seymour On The Excessive Spending Revealed In The Covid Inquiry
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David Harvey On The Te Papa Treaty Vandalism Charges Dropped
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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.