Alex Smith khn.org Despite the lack of dine-in customers for nearly 2½ long months during the coronavirus shutdown, Darrell Loo of Waldo Thai stayed busy. Loo is the bar manager for the popular restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, and he credits increased drinking and looser liquor laws during
IINZ News israelinstitute.nz Welcome to the Israel Institute of New Zealand 2020 Voters’ Guide. Our first guide was in 2017 and this one was also compiled after we wrote to all MPs asking for their and their party positions on Israel. Selected MPs Alfred Ngaro re-started the New
Information Satire James Macpherson goodsauce.news James Macpherson writes for The Good Sauce and is a sought after international speaker with a background in journalism at the Courier Mail and Daily Telegraph. He previously pastored Calvary Christian Church in nine locations from Townsville to South Africa. Nestle this week took
Welcome to the Israel Institute of New Zealand 2020 Voters’ Guide. Our first guide was in 2017 and this one was also compiled after we wrote to all MPs asking for their and their party positions on Israel. Opposes NZ funding extremism New Conservatives have committed to NZ withdrawing funding
IINZ News israelinstitute.nz Much has been written and opined about the expected announcement on July 1st about Israel applying Israeli civilian law to parts of the disputed territories. Here are some facts that are worth keeping in mind. 1. No one really knows what will be proposed yet 2.
John Colley Warwick Business School, University of Warwick A handful of technology companies have benefited from coronavirus. Amazon has profited handsomely, as have streaming and video conferencing platforms like Netflix and Zoom. But the pandemic has laid bare the shaky foundations of a number of other platforms that bill themselves
Ross Hendy Monash University The recent killing of a police officer and the wounding of his colleague in West Auckland will inevitably change police attitudes to their jobs. Firstly, it will affect how they interact with the public. Such tragedies offer a direct challenge to the democratic conventions of policing
Rob Scovell Rob Scovell is a graduate of Edinburgh University with degrees in Astrophysics, Theology, and Mathematical Modelling. His interests are in political analysis and in bridging the illusory gap between Faith and Science. He is a classical liberal in a world where that position is under attack from both
Val Hooper, Victoria University Gordon Anderson, Victoria University Stephen Blumenfeld, Victoria University Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing share of the workforce that dystopian reality arrived while most of us
Redline rdln.wordpress.com A week ago JK Rowling tweeted that that biological sex is real. She took issue with an article that referred to “people who menstruate,” instead of “women”. She pointed out: “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.?.?. . I do not
Bruce Logan Simon Wilson has given us a list of place names, from ‘Auckland’ to ‘New Zealand’, that the enlightened would replace. He has missed the most obvious and unsafe place name, ‘Christchurch’. Surely that should be the first to go. The name reeks of our colonialist and discriminatory religious
Geoffrey 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
Kate McLoughlin University of Oxford “We will meet again,” the Queen declared in an April 5 Coronavirus address the UK. Suddenly, a line the British people indelibly associate with the second world war was in the news again. The monarch’s reassurance to people separated from loved ones by lockdown
Patriotrealm patriotrealm.com Tearing down the monuments built on the slave’s backs – you’d better get a bigger truck. If we were to raze everything to the ground that rose up from the yoke of slavery, we would have little left standing, save some cheap housing and a few
Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley Michael Jackson covidplanb.co.nz The recent fiasco that allowed people to leave quarantine without testing, risking the spread of COVID-19, highlights how nebulous the government’s claim of total elimination always was. The government, in projecting thousands of deaths that never eventuated, has continued
Xbolt So China has mounted a cyber attack on our closest ally and brothers in arms, the Australians. Where is the ANZAC spirit? Where are New Zealand cries of “we stand with our best friends and allies”? Is it because there is so much Chinese money invested in our politicians
