Dear Prime Minister Ardern, An open letter to yourself, Members of Parliament, and Government: As ministers of the Gospel, ordained and appointed by God, we write, not in the spirit of those wanting to rebel or revolt but as those who have the highest regard for you and your God-
An article in The Northland Age about the police finally taking action to open up an illegal roadblock is not all good news. The good news is that that police finally acted last Wednesday on behalf of law-abiding surfers by intervening in order to let the surfers through the
I think it is fair to say that the cult of Jacinda is still in the early chapters of The Emperor’s New Clothes, the study in group-think by Hans Christian Andersen where some complicit weavers convince the Emperor and the people that he is indeed magnificent in his
Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Remember the Trekka? Winston Peters does. David Parker does. Grant Robertson does. Or at least you’d think so, given their talk over recent weeks about how they’re going to be “picking winners” to get New Zealand back off the economic canvas — Peters to
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz Why does New Zealand need a serosurvey? New Zealand urgently needs to test for antibodies to COVID-19. The standard test for COVID-19 at present is a genetic test that only detects whether or not the virus is currently in the body. Serology is
Bob Edlin pointofordernz.wordpress.com We are all getting older, but some of us (according to the Minister of Health) are getting older much faster than others “Older” New Zealanders have been defined for policy purposes in a press statement that emerged from the office of Health Minister David Clark
Nick Stewart Stewart Group COVID-19 has got the attention of the world, and a great deal of information has been published about the pandemic in recent months. As a nation, we did everything in our power to slow down the COVID-19 spread, and at the end of level
Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA Viv Forbes has studied financial analysis, business economics and politics, and he is one of the oldies more vulnerable to the Wuhan virus. We are drowning in a sea of suspect statistics, many being used selectively by power-hungry politicians. Especially COVID statistics. Suppose an
Michael Reddell croakingcassandra.com Having mentioned yesterday the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Stringency Index, I was playing around with variants of this chart, tracing the responses of various governments through time. On this variant I’ve included the Anglo countries and most of the countries of western Europe. It
Ferris Bueller Arctic Inuit Indians, Australian Aborigines and our Prime Minister seem to have an unlikely connection but they are closer than you think. All three share one common factor, a connection so specialised as to be in a very small global club. The connection? They are all masters of
Justin Knight Freedom of the press is the right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government. An independent press is one of the essential pillars of democracy. It’s the people’s protection against secret government, against authoritarianism and against tyranny. Without the press, the concept of
Leighton Baker Leader New Conservative The below article is in response to The BFD article earlier this week, New Conservatives Should Prove They Are New By Dumping Their Key Platform by BFD Editor Juana Atkins. There’s much to like about The BFD. Thanks for providing a platform for open,
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz To understand the risks of ending lockdown, it is useful to think of a worst-case scenario. What would happen if ending lockdown led to a fate like Spain, Italy and New York? A well-known epidemiologist has calculated the answer. For individuals aged less
Arthur What has been happening to our country under lockdown isn’t new. It has been building like dry rot in a house or rust in a car for decades. Totalitarian regression dressed up as progressiveness has been rotting our society since the hippy nonsense declined from 1970 and was
George The emotional bond that develops between two people can be as simple as a close friendship or as complex as falling in love with a partner including the expansion of that unconditional love extending to the children that may issue from that bonding. When any relationship ends through death,
Matthew Sharpe Deakin University Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes. And The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to Plato’s thought. There are few subjects that Plato’s masterpiece does not
