‘The Mood’ of NZ’s Weak Boardrooms
This reflects on their own ineffectiveness, which has cut productivity, not on our MPs’ quality.
Reproduced with permission
The People’s Republic of Wokington
Minister Brown’s challenge appears insurmountable. Opportunity cost is a concept entirely outside their frame of reference and he’s endeavouring to explain it to them.
How the US Govt Turned on the People
The act made bureaucrats professionals who are independent of politicians. Of course, after Covid anybody who thinks bureaucrats are omniscient angels needs a lobotomy. Covid was their dream come true: total control.
The Perils of Lawfare
This farcical situation reveals a deeper problem, namely, a legal system that has run wildly out of control. There is too much law, and most of it is designed to resolve problems created by having too much law.
Plagiarism: Is History on Repeat?
The past and the present in a potentially campaign-killing reflection.
Do White Coats Make You More Intelligent?
The Michigan researchers are part of the new Green Movement who have moved about as far from green as you can get. As Joni Mitchell sang they plan to “pave paradise and put up a parking lot” for electric cars only.
Which One Is It?
Whether protests on hospital plans or what you can wear on a night out, are we being consistent in our approach or just doing what suits us at the time.
Fact Aotearoa Springs up as DP Folds
It is clear that their role is to ensure public support for government authority by dismissing and even criminalising those who dare to oppose government policies. Such propaganda should concern anyone who values freedom and democracy.
It Is Not the Prime Minister...
The biggest capital gains-wanna-be-tax-dodgers in NZ are Labour and Greens own MPs.
There Are Signs of Untruthfulness
Sometimes the speaker connives for his adversaries to be censored. It is like when a business gets the government to shut down competing businesses. It is a form of protectionism or what economists call ‘rent-seeking.’
The Largest Study on UBI Was Just Conducted
The results are disappointing for advocates. What did people do with the extra time they got from working less? In short, the answer is, they relaxed.
A Cash Injection to Fight Bird Flu
The response will include funding for practical on-ground actions to limit the spread and impacts of HPAI H5N1 for susceptible wildlife. This might include a vaccination program for vulnerable threatened species, as an example.
Ben Bateman Appointed CEO Ngāi Tahu
Bateman’s career also includes roles outside of Ngāi Tahu, having worked as a lawyer and senior leader in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and with the New Zealand Defence Force.
The Queering of New Zealand Children
The Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA), our secondary school teachers union held their 2024 conference recently. Some troubling papers were discussed. Parents, teachers, principals, take note.
What Even Is It?
Race activists in NZ should get over themselves & accept we'll never know whether "sovereignty" was ceded in the Treaty of Waitangi.