Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz With the number of Auckland’s COVID cases increasing exponentially, there is every chance the Government will extend the city’s Alert Level 3 lockdown for several weeks. How we got here and the lessons we can learn are questions for another day. For now,
Matt Philbin papundits.wordpress.com “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple GenYs. These are people of the internet. The common clay of the new Woke. You know … morons.” Is that quote: a) A bastardization of one of the dozens (hundreds?) of funny lines in Blazing Saddles?
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz I have consistently believed that cannabis is a harmful substance and that people who use it for “recreational purposes” would be more sensible to choose a healthy form of recreation that doesn’t put them and those dependent on them, i.e. their children
Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz The authors are members of the Department of Economics and School of Population Health respectively at the University of Auckland. The views expressed are their own. During the Vietnam war, the well-known (and Kiwi-born) journalist Peter Arnett is supposed to have
Owen Jennings The Ministry for the Environment’s newly released risk assessment document is useless. It relies on the increasingly discredited RCP8.5 scenario published in 2011 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Despite stating: “In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing
On Tuesday this week, I woke up with a runny nose. It was completely my fault: I went to bed very late Monday night without having had the heater on during the evening, or at night. Having turned soft by living too many years in Auckland, and the fact my
The highly contagious COVID-19 epidemic has stopped the world in its tracks. New Zealanders thought that they were okay and free from the virus as they had been told it had been eliminated. Jacinda told the world she had danced in celebration at the news and Kiwis felt reassured
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor
Robert Bridge strategic-culture.org The citizens of Australia’s second most populous city are suffering under the harshest lockdown conditions of all Western democracies. Their voices need to be heard. In the last several weeks, Melbourne has introduced shockingly draconian anti-COVID measures, imposed on the metropolis of some
David Wojick papundits.wordpress.com As a logician, I am always on the lookout for fallacies and there is no lack of them in climate change alarmist policies. New Zealand’s newly released climate risk assessment not only has multiple fallacies, they build on one another in a cascade. This
Andrew Geddis Professor of Law University of Otago Disclosure statement Andrew Geddis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The return of COVID-19 community
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. Dear Prime Minister, I supported the initial national lockdown and move to quarantined borders. Over the last 5 months the situation has changed markedly in four respects: * Firstly, the Infection Fatality Ratio can now be calculated to
righttolife.org.uk The number of assisted suicide and euthanasia deaths in Canada rose by more than 25% in 2019 and made up 2% of all deaths in the country last year, according to a report released by the Canadian Government. Health Canada’s first annual report on Medical Assistance
Information Satire CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org They’re here! No, not the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We’re not being colonized by giant alien fruit. I’m afraid it is a little more serious than that. People’s minds are being taken over by a much
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State
Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
