What Is He Doing?
Is Sir Ashley Bloomfield arguing that this nation should be turned into a police state for the ‘next (inevitable)’ pandemic?
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We Need to Move Ahead
The coalition was elected to put things right. To do that it needs to be tougher than it has been to date. Red tape and bureaucracy are still out of control in this country.
Kill Free Speech to Regain Trust
Tedros has discussed trust and how to get it back – by killing free speech, of course.
Google Still Stacking the Deck
Burying r-leaning news on presidential coverage three weeks from election.
Politics Is All Caligula’s Horse Now
Olivia Pierson I cherish the values of The Enlightenment – reason, freedom and beauty. More precisely, I value the principles which became the hallmarks of Western democracy. [Source: Reality Check Radio, Olivia’s View on The Crunch with Cam Slater, 1 August 2024.] When Joe Biden ran for the office of
Kiri Allan
Their apparent belief that their fast-diminishing, remaining, audience wishes to view Allan’s bum says everything about their abysmal judgment and consequential decline.
‘The Mood’ of NZ’s Weak Boardrooms
This reflects on their own ineffectiveness, which has cut productivity, not on our MPs’ quality.
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.