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Has Bitcoin’s Moment Now Arrived?
The use of alternative payment methods during periods of conflict is not new. But the direction is becoming clearer. When trust erodes, systems do not collapse overnight, they morph and adapt. Quietly at first and then all at once.
The Air New Zealand Pod Awaits You
What gets me is that the $495 is what you pay on top of your basic ticket price: it’s only for a four-hour period in The Pod and, as you can see, it’s a bunk-bed setup.
Is This Only an Unlucky Coincidence?
One of Australia’s only two oil refineries up in flames during fuel crisis.
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.
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?