The joke at the moment across the Western democracies is that you’re often seeing coalitions in all but name via the so-called “uni-party” where parties simply exchange power but maintain the same overall policies. People have had a gutsful of their votes changing nothing in their lives.
The people walking out are the ones who tried to challenge that axis and lost.
That is the real issue raised by this agreement: not trade, but whether constitutional change in New Zealand will occur by democratic choice or by political stealth.
Europe’s centrally planned climate agenda has collided with economic reality, weakening growth and fueling political backlash.
The indictment of Dr Morens will not suddenly repair all. But a bit of accountability is at least a step in the right direction.
My son’s generation deserves better than glossy brochures, origami rabbits and lifelong repayments for experiences that deliver neither wisdom nor wages.
Every now and then an act of government incompetence and waste is so egregious that it’s enough to wake the beast within.
Precision in language is important. Calling anyone slightly right of the moderate left - 'far right' - while rarely challenging those clearly on the far-left, is degrading our democracy.
How the Soviet Union, Russia, and China have systematically subverted the United States – and what the results look like.
A banking boom is unlikely in Antarctica, but there doesn’t need to be one. What matters is the ability of a people to participate in their micro-economies unsevered from civilization. If the coldest edges of Earth don’t freeze out customers, neither should our financial institutions.
There is a path for an organisation such as the WHO to act in an ethical, proportionate manner that serves humanity rather than parasitising it.
The next time you see, or hear, the media use the term ‘far right’ – you can understand what it actually means. They’re referring to you, me, and the traditional values that made our societies great…
