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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.
Doctors urge government to replace Medical Council over Māori health proposal
“It is a political manifesto dressed in medical language.”
‘You don’t get to run on kindness and do this’: Ardern championed diversity, now lives in one of Australia’s least diverse communities
“She’s found what must be the whitest, wealthiest place in Australia and said: ‘Yeah, this is where I’m going to move with my family.’”
Charges dropped after tikanga defence surfaces in Te Papa Treaty protest case
He got away with it, then.
South Korea export ban fears raise fuel security concerns
“I’ve been advised that there is that speculation in the market, both by fuel importing companies here, and obviously, there’s been media coverage.”
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.
Standup Sunday
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Health Minister Simeon Brown On The Covid-19 Inquiry
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Damien Grant On Helen Clark’s Endless Commentary In The Media
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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.