As Judith Collins once said, the more a man assures you of his honesty, the more closely you should watch your pockets. The same is doubly, triply, true of politicians who blatherskite about “integrity”. The Australian Greens, for instance, pontificate endlessly about “integrity” and “getting big money” out of politics
One of the apparently remarkable things about the pandemic was that influenza supposedly all-but disappeared. The official reason is that the novel and deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus ‘outcompeted’ flu and replaced it as a primary cause of death during that time. Obviously, then, it was a triumph of pandemic lockdown policy!
George Orwell worried that the future would be the government boot stamping on us – forever. Aldous Huxley was more worried that corporate culture would so distract us with luxury that we wouldn’t notice we’d become slaves. Both were right, in very important ways. But, while it’s easy
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As predicted, the Kiri Allan show is turning into a slow-moving train wreck with the drip feed of further allegations coming daily now. This time it is senior officials who outline the rantings and ravings of Kiri Allan in what can only be described as weapons-grade tantrums. A senior public
The left just love Scandinavian countries. Mostly because they fondly imagine, no matter how many times Scandinavian leaders try to correct them, that Scandinavian countries are ‘socialist’. But leftists fall conspicuously silent about their beloved Scandinavian countries whenever Scandinavian countries do such inconvenient things as slashing immigration, booting out Muslim
Imagine if local residents objected to plans to build a mosque in their street. Imagine if they claimed that Muslims don’t integrate into the broader community, that multiple daily prayers would be a noise and traffic nuisance and that deception was being practised. The media and the activist left
Usually the state-sanctioned suicide enthusiasts at least wait until they’ve snuck through their medical suicide laws before they shove off down the slippery slope. Not in woke, wealthy, Canberra, though. They’re skidding off down the slippery slope before the ink’s even on the paper, let alone dry.
Simon O’Neill is learning the hard way that it’s fatal to the career of an arts luvvie to say what they really think. Even more fatal to assert the superiority of classical Western culture. Because the ruling orthodoxy of New Zealand’s chattering classes is that a literal
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Predictably the Labour-stacked Privileges Committee has only made Jan Tinetti apologise for her dodgy behaviour in handling Official Information Act requests, instead of censuring her or holding her in contempt of Parliament. Education Minister Jan Tinetti has escaped being held in contempt of Parliament – but has now apologised for her
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We are seeing yet another slow-moving scandal threatening to envelop the Labour Party while Chris Hipkins is on his knees begging in China. Kiri Allan is the latest minister to be accused of bullying, and it appears to be rather more serious than the minister is letting on. Stuff reports:
