Will One Nation Fizzle or Triumph?
One Nation’s meteoric rise is the outcome of years of simmering fury.
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Split Will End Ley for Good
The Nats’ second unconvincing doormat hissy-fit is really aimed at ousting a woeful Liberal leader.
To Get Building Again
The same forces that hollowed out nations hollowed out families. The skills that built America skipped two generations. Now they’re coming back.
Greenland Deal in the Works After NATO Talks
President Trump lifts tariffs threat, citing framework of an agreement.
Who Couldn’t See Exactly How This Would Go?
Hundreds of Dutch students locked up in a house of horrors with hundreds of ‘refugees’.
Why We Shouldn’t Ban Controversial Speakers
Allowing controversial speakers into Australia provides an alternative to the mainstream media and this is good for a diversity of perspectives.
No Word from China That Can Be Trusted
Who’d trust official Chinese government statistics?
Maybe We Should All Identify as Māori?
If equality is the goal, then policies must be universal, needs-based, and blind to race. Because, when identity becomes currency, people will inevitably try to spend it.
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Another Great Socialist Plan Goes Bung
You can’t spend other people’s money if they leave and take it with them.
Hipkins Launches Labour’s Gaslighting Election Campaign
An election-year address that only works if New Zealanders have collective amnesia.
Will a New RNZ Board Stop the Rot?
Companies such as Stuff and NZME (publisher of the Herald) can make their own rules, as long as they’re willing to risk consequences such as loss of trust and declining readership. RNZ (and TVNZ, but let’s not go there) has no such latitude.
Going From Terror to Tyranny
Passing new laws every time a terrorist act occurs does not make us safer: it merely emboldens a different, stronger entity to inflict its own tools of terror – our own government.