Trump’s Pick for CDC Director Raises Eyebrows
After a year of turmoil, the priority appears to be getting a nominee through – rather than driving radical reform.
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This BSA BS Continues Unabated
What’s the best response to the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s unrelenting lawless lunacy?
This Is a Democratic Deficit
Far from being a democratic act, this stands as the complete antithesis of everything voters were promised in the 2023 election campaign. It is a total abandonment of campaign pledges. Do you see the future now? Co-governance is a cancer and, like a cancer, it will destroy its host.
The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine
Progress has been stalled, not because the science is unclear, but because the decision to act has not been taken. In public health, delays do not remain abstract, they accumulate over time, and eventually they are measured in lives.
What Unfolded Before ACIP Was Stopped
An insider account of internal tensions, contested decisions, and the questions that were never resolved.
Sadiq Khan Is Gaslighting Us
By commissioning research that reframes public anxiety about crime in London as mis- and disinformation, Khan is gaslighting his critics.
The Little Excuses
What Wellington’s mayor can and should do to help fix New Zealand’s Capital City
We’re Taking Gore District Council to Court
Bryce McKenzie, co-founder of Groundswell NZ, explains clearly what is happening in Gore and why it is relevant to all of New Zealand.
$27.6 Million… Why?
Luxon campaigned on eliminating “wasteful spending”. While this specific funding may not technically fit that strict definition, many would argue its justification. Given this precedent, how long before this benevolence prompts other marae to submit similar claims?
Trump ‘Shocked’ by Italian PM’s Comments
“Meloni doesn’t want to help us with NATO, she doesn’t want to help us get rid of the nuclear weapon,” he said. “She’s very different from what I thought.”
Trump Threatens Trade Deal After Reeves’ Comments
What it comes down to is whether the world stands up to Iran and takes action that will curtail its genocidal ambitions, or whether merely symbolic gestures should be made while Iran advances towards its goals regardless. Reeves and Starmer, like most European leaders, seem to be in the latter camp.
Netherlands Hits Record of Euthanasia in 2025
The Dutch experience may serve as a warning that the risks of euthanasia represent less of a slippery slope and more of a runaway train.
Where to From Here?
This can be an individual decision, but it can also become the goal of a society needing to change.