Would We Be In Bad Company?
Is this another of Chris’s ‘big time outbursts’ that just might end up inflicting pain on his posterior.
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She Was Silenced for Asking Questions
When local councils decide that keeping smooth relationships with activist groups matters more than democratic accountability, the system is broken.
Another War of Attrition: Iran
As has been understood from the beginning, the end of this war lies with the Iranian people: how much longer can they be suppressed by the regime and how can they fight back when they’re basically unarmed?
It Was All a Scam
A randomised trial that should have been done decades ago has found more deaths among critically ill flu patients given Tamiflu than among those given no antiviral.
Auckland Has Nailed Attracting International Talent
Unfortunately, someone just found page two of the plan.
SARU and the Ticket Fiasco
SARU to blame but was it corruption too?
Hipkins’ Play for the Māori Seats
At every election, Labour promises to solve the problems of its own making. And sadly, many Māori keep believing the promise.
New Zealand and the Sovereignty Machine
The lesson is brutal but clear: in the modern political arena, fractured individual forces are doomed to failure. A collection of solitary actors, no matter how principled, will always be crushed by a disciplined, coordinated machine.
This Is Gaming the Election
One aspect of Kiwi culture is our desire to give everyone a fair go. But the flipside is that we have little tolerance for anyone attempting to play dirty. That’s what the Māori Party is aiming to do.
America Is Now a Peter Pan Nation
Nowadays, growing numbers of the well-off and the poor see handouts as their birthrights in a quest to turn life into one big cradle until the grave. Not everybody, of course – but ever-growing numbers.
Why J K Rowling Is Right, and the Trans Mob Is a Menace
In defence of reality: trans terror.
C-19 Windows on Woefulness and Worse
In New Zealand, the China virus’ only gainful function has been to open our eyes even wider to the dishonesty of our power elites and health tsars, and to be even more suspicious of The Man, the Deep State, the Bloberati, official “inquiries”...