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Danny Bright

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Vaccination Is Not and Will Never Be the Solution for NZ

There’s been much gnashing of teeth and nonsensical garbage bandied about, regarding what should happen to those amongst us who choose not to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Suggestions that they be ostracised or prevented from working are surely an extension of the ill-conceived panicked posturing and grandstanding we’ve

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How to Drive Yourself Mad during Lockdown

How to Drive Yourself Mad during Lockdown

Being locked down means having time to do things one might normally never have the time or inclination to do. And so it was that when I received an email from a colleague that included the acronym LGBTQ, I thought, “what does that all stand for again?” So off I

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Government Gets Away with It Because Our Media Are Inept

Government Gets Away with It Because Our Media Are Inept

I took one for the team so you wouldn’t have to. I watched Ryan Bridge interview the Prime Minister on Newshub Breakfast at about 7.45 on Tuesday morning (August 24). Covid has been a major worldwide news story since March last year. That would make it 18 months.

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Auckland Lockdown Unlikely to End Next Week

Auckland Lockdown Unlikely to End Next Week

A significant part of the world’s population today is living with high levels of fear. Fear of death by Covid-19. Confronted by stories of hundreds of new “cases”, deaths and horrifyingly mutated variants that will eventually sneak in and get them, average people are losing the will to live.

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Hate Speech Laws Will Fail Abysmally

Hate Speech Laws Will Fail Abysmally

Well-intentioned legislation to protect equal rights for all flies in the face of many very basic, simple human psychological conditions. If you genuinely believe that making a law or a rule with the stroke of a pen will change how people think and behave, you’re probably not far from

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The Truth about Fake News and Biased Media

Is the excessive amount of fake news we’re subjected to daily the result of a left-wing plot to overthrow global democracy and destabilise the world? You’d think so from some of the opinions expressed about it, but cast your mind back through history and you’ll find that

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Make No Mistake About It – Winston Is Back
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Make No Mistake About It – Winston Is Back

The last election delivered the breathtakingly bizarre results of an MMP election that handed single party government to the most inept group of incompetents in the history of the country. Despite having seen them at “work” for three years. Despite not a single promise kept. Despite the promised transparency disappearing

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The National Party Is Doomed
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The National Party Is Doomed

I honestly, truly, cross my heart, wish I didn’t have to be saying this but recently I wrote about the stupidity of some National MP’s fronting up to the media and making absolute asses of themselves and the party by commenting on the Paul Goldsmith “colonization was good

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Janet Wilson Is Right about National

Janet Wilson Is Right about National

In an editorial on Stuff over the weekend which Cam has already summed up from one perspective, Ms Wilson has delivered a glowing expose of her own gushing egoism. She’s right about one thing – National does need some change and good on Judith Collins for starting the much-needed cleanout

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Thinking – How to Completely Ruin a Fine Sunny Day

It was an unusually warm winter’s day and in the early hours of the afternoon, with the sun streaming through the windows, I abandoned the computer and my usual raft of research and the quest for knowledge and understanding of the confusing world around us. I made a fresh

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Monica Lewinsky – World’s Best Known Intern – Signs TV Deal

Breaking News from Hollywood: 20th Television has signed Monica Lewinsky’s production company Alt Ending Productions to a first-look producing deal according to The Hollywood Reporter: “The news comes as Lewinsky is prepping the latest installment of the American Crime Story anthology series, Impeachment: American Crime Story, for which she

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Can Trans ‘Women’ Ever be Truly Female?

Can Trans ‘Women’ Ever be Truly Female?

Should an employer have the right to fire an employee who expresses the view that a trans woman can never be truly a female? The Daily Mail article reads: “ ‘I was just fighting for everyone’s right to hold an opinion’: Mother who lost her job for saying trans women

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