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Plain Language Act Last Straw for Satirists

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Warning Satire The role of satirists in adding fresh perspective to current events has become steadily more difficult with government connivance and ineptitude ever-increasing and running now at all-time highs. Simply; with truth now stranger than fiction, the daily news is itself routinely

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We Don’t Trust Them Anymore

We Don’t Trust Them Anymore

Qavah This week, Chris Bishop asked in an email, “What do you think is Labour’s biggest failure in the last five years?” Trust destroyed is very hard to win back, if not impossible.  Too often we were lied to by Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson, and many others. In fact, every

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Uber Court Ruling a Major Victory

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Do you believe that workers deserve basic employment rights and protections against exploitation? Do you think that workers

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Political Justice Is Spreading like Cancer

Political Justice Is Spreading like Cancer

Daniel McAdams ronpaulinstitute.org Information Opinion Josef Stalin’s top henchman famously said, “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” What it meant was that Soviet justice was about politics, not the rule of law. First decide who, for political reasons, is to be punished, and

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Hip Hop and the Ancient Hatred

Hip Hop and the Ancient Hatred

Editorial Dr Sheree Trotter Israel Institute of New Zealand israelinstitute.nz The Israel Institute of New Zealand is an independent think tank dedicated to providing New Zealanders with a better understanding of the State of Israel through accurate analysis, insightful commentary, and effective advocacy. Information Opinion If you’re not

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Can They Appoint Sunak without an Election?

Can They Appoint Sunak without an Election?

Stephen Clear Bangor University Originally from London, Stephen has been teaching at Bangor University Law School in North Wales, United Kingdom, since 2011. His research interests are in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, public procurement, mooting and legal education. It is only right to explain why I’m

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Turn Down the Heat It’s a Climate Lockdown

Turn Down the Heat It’s a Climate Lockdown

Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com Remember last year when I warned that the next steps would be climate change passports and climate lockdowns? Some people just laughed at me and thought that that could never happen, just like they thought that the covid passports could never happen either. Well, here

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You Will Be Hungry and Own Nothing

You Will Be Hungry and Own Nothing

Louise M Diack kiwi-chronicle.ghost.io Information Opinion Not content with having stuffed energy security, the misanthropic, globalist political class seems mysteriously unified and intent on meddling with food security too. New Zealand’s PM has bewildering plans to force sheep and cattle farmers to cut production. New Zealand’

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NZ Politicians Nowhere to Be Seen

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion With NZ politicians all apparently under some sort of spell cast by the Wicked Witch of the WEF, we have to look enviously at other countries to see politicians who are responding to, and working for, the people with

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What Happened to John Loannidis

What Happened to John Loannidis

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion World-leading Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University, features in Out to See, a documentary released last week. An NZDSOS volunteer wrote this brief review on the film and her own experiences relating to Professor Ioannidis.

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A Wellesley Student Speaks Out

Anon. Wellesley Student brownstone.org Anon Wellesley student remains that way because she would like to continue as a student. I was appalled, but not surprised, when on Saturday, September 24, the Dean of Students at Wellesley College, where I am a student, buried at the end of an email

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What Rishi Sunak Must Tackle as PM

What Rishi Sunak Must Tackle as PM

Alan Shipman The Open University Alan Shipman is a senior lecturer in economics at the Open University. He returned to research and teaching on the economy after it crashed in 2008, having (mis)spent years as an emerging-markets analyst, consultant and business journalist. As the incoming UK prime minister,

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How Did He End up with the Top Job in British Politics?
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How Did He End up with the Top Job in British Politics?

Victoria Honeyman University of Leeds Since completing her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2005, Victoria Honeyman has taught on a wide range of modules. Her primary specialism is British Politics, with a particular specialism in British foreign policy. When Rishi Sunak lost to Liz Truss in the first

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Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep

Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep

Guy Hatchard GLOBE.GLOBAL hatchardreport.com Information Opinion The UK Times runs a story “After centuries of cut, burn and poison, could a jab cure cancer?” by Tom Whipple. 11,000 miles away the same story appears in Stuff newspaper. This is one of those ‘isn’t it wonderful?’ reassuring

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Labour Plans an Act of ‘Mega Stupidity’

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Information Opinion It seems inconceivable

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Painted Themselves into a Corner
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How Long before She Quits?

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tried to fly to Antarctica yesterday, and her media spin doctors would have been

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