Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week. Whatever cost of living crisis Britain is currently undergoing and is predicted to encounter more of under the new and higher taxing Labour
DTNZ The rise in mortgagee sales is becoming noticeable, with a 35 per cent increase from the previous year. Despite this, such sales constitute a small fraction of the total market. As of now, TradeMe lists 65 residential properties under mortgagee sales, less than one per cent of their total
James Fite Editor-at-Large: James is our wordsmith extraordinaire, a legislation hound and lover of all things self-reliant and free. An author of politics and fiction at LibertyNation.com (often one and the same) he homesteads in the Arkansas wilderness. For the last few years, Kamala Harris has been panned by
Damon Hayhow Damon is the founder of the National Recomposition Institute and creator and founder of the Recomposer software system. He was also formerly the Australian Ambassador to the International Society of Sports Nutrition, president of the World Powerlifting Congress Australia and an Australian Champion in Bodybuilding and Powerlifting. A
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week. It’s intriguing to arrive in a foreign land on the eve of their General Election. Just why the United Kingdom votes on
Bryce Edwards Democracy Project Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Dissatisfaction with the Wellington City Council has hit new highs. The Council has just released the results of its annual survey of residents, which shows just how much discontent there
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984–1990 governments. Ever wondered who or what is constantly trying to block the new government’s policies? Why is it that announcements
Markus Luczak-Roesch, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington The Conversation New Zealand shifted closer towards digital credentials for access to online services this week with the launch of the Trust Framework Authority. It will determine which organisations are verified to provide digital identity services. The digital ID scheme aims
Bruce W Davidson Bruce Davidson is professor of humanities at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan. Even those who already know a lot about the recent man-made medical disaster may be shocked by the raw, firsthand accounts in this book of the horrors perpetrated at many American, British, and Canadian
Paul Driessen Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues. This election year, several critical issues dominate voter concerns. Illegal immigration across unsecured borders by migrants, criminals, sex
Marta Rychert, Massey University; Kate Diesfeld, Auckland University of Technology, and Lois Surgenor, University of Otago The Conversation We all make mistakes at work. And many factors can contribute to professional lapses, including fatigue, illness and lack of training or professional support. Usually we pick up the pieces and move
DTNZ Daily Telegraph New Zealand The programme revealed the severe health complications experienced by some vaccine recipients, including prominent individuals. Professor Kerryn Phelps, a renowned medical practitioner, highlighted that over 140,000 people reported adverse effects to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), with 22,000 classified as serious. Phelps told
Bryce Edwards Democracy Project Fixing New Zealand’s rail and ferry infrastructure is becoming the most significant political issue of this year. Having cancelled KiwiRail’s Cook Strait ferry and portside upgrade programme in December without first establishing a Plan B, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has since been grappling, alongside
Dave Patterson Liberty Nation While most of the world is focused on Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah is wreaking havoc. Since the horrific October 7 attack by the Hamas terrorists on southern Israel, the continuous barrage of Iran-supplied Hezbollah missiles and mortar rounds has been more of a sideshow to the
George Ford Smith George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, the author of eight books including a novel about a renegade Fed chairman (Flight of the Barbarous Relic) and a nonfiction book on how money became an instrument of theft (The Jolly Roger Dollar)
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Prime Minister has announced a long overdue no nonsense hard line on fighting crime. He will certainly have public support. But here’s one good move that I doubt has occurred to him and that’s to get more women judges. The constant ludicrous
