Decades of Influence of ‘The Population Bomb’
The scientist passed away at 93, but his malign ideas live on.
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Scrap Net Zero
Dramatic new ice core evidence shows current century warming common throughout the last 400,000 years.
Melania – The Movie
She has raised the bar for the role of first lady to an extraordinary level – and it feels like high time too.
A Useful Tool or Dangerous Overreach?
The problem is that once a power like this exists, it rarely stays confined to one purpose. The same law that clears a footpath today could just as easily clear a protest tomorrow.
It’s the Judges Versus the Voters
Win one, mark time on two, in Trump’s battle against institutional lawfare.
Royal Commission Was Destined To Come up Short
Confidence we’d get a hard hitting report was low.
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Getting Away with Murder?
A German man who strangled a Tasmanian sex worker is walking free after just a couple of years.
If ministers can’t interfere, who fixes state-media bias?
Editorial independence protects TVNZ from political interference, but it does not remove accountability when bias occurs. Ministers cannot direct coverage, but the board still has responsibility through leadership, oversight and senior appointments.
Why are COVID stories still using dodgy numbers and the same ‘expert’ script?
If the media wants to be trusted on COVID, then stop recycling misleading numbers, quoting the same local “experts”, and treating one narrow public health line as the only respectable view.
Tikanga on Trial
If the rule of law is to mean anything in this country, the creeping judicial elevation of tikanga must be dismantled. The integrity of our legal order, and the equality of every New Zealander before the law, depends on it.