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The Man on the £5 Note
A nation that refuses to remember and celebrate its history will see its past expunged by those who prefer to forget it.
Mike Hosking says ministers were right to ignore ‘vague, wrong and made up’ advice on move-on orders
“Advice is not automatically right.”
‘When is Labour going to be held accountable?’: Memo questioned double-dose mandates for under-18s
“This information was not made public by Labour ministers or officials.”
The ‘job wars’ are exposing a broken graduate bargain
Unemployment for 15 to 24-year-olds is now, “three times higher than the overall unemployment rate”.
The Man on the £5 Note
A nation that refuses to remember and celebrate its history will see its past expunged by those who prefer to forget it.
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.
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.
Manly Monday
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Trump Sings to Starmer: We Don't Need Britain!
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The Arrogance Of Power: COVID Inquiry Smashes Hipkins’ Record
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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.