Hey Australia, You Can Have Jacinda, We Don’t Want Her
We are told she represents the best of us. For a large and growing number of Kiwis, she represents a period they would rather never repeat.
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Blobudsman Shows His True Colours
New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman unlawfully sides with the forces of opaqueness and censorship.
What It Actually Costs To Live ‘Green’ Like Chris Hipkins
Forget ‘let them eat cake’, now it’s ‘let them have solar’.
This Is Inarguable: The Golden Dome
The secrecy is rational – the cost is manageable – and the imperative is inarguable.
Why Lionel Shriver Really Left Britain
The two pieces are an interesting example of how two people can present the same event quite differently.
The Time for Talk Is Over
It may take weeks of bombing, but America and Israel are setting about removing a diabolical and evil regime to allow the people of Iran to take over and start fresh.
France Pushes To Open the Door to Euthanasia
France’s debate will be a crucial one to follow. It highlights how rapidly a society can move from defending life to enabling death.
Government, You Are the Problem
How freedom became the enemy and government our saviour.
Government Introduces Traffic Light System For Beneficiaries
Immediately discovers New Zealand also needs jobs.
Why Economic Freedom Does Matter
Economic freedom is not a luxury for the rich. It is a set of rules that make it possible for the vast majority of people to do well.
The Subsumption of a Culture
Have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? New Zealand is undergoing it.
We No Longer Recognise Evil
As the Islamic regime in Iran begins to crumble, it is clear from comments of some politicians, academics, and activists that they no longer can discern between good and evil, right and wrong.
Who Has the Courage To Fix This?
Declaring something impossible doesn’t make the debt disappear. It just means that the reckoning will happen on worse terms, probably in a crisis, almost certainly at the worst possible moment.
Three More Silly Stories
Here are a few of last week’s most absurd stories in case you missed them.