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The 92% Tax That Nobody Ever Paid
If they spent as much energy making it easier to build a business as they do dreaming up new ways to ‘soak the rich,’ the tax base would take care of itself.
The Real Story Is Empty Ballot Boxes
No culture, however proud its monuments and history, endures for long once the people who built it withdraw from defending it.
The Autopsy of a Canary
What the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre reveals about antisemitism today.
Hey Australia, You Can Have Jacinda, We Don’t Want Her
We are told she represents the best of us. For a large and growing number of Kiwis, she represents a period they would rather never repeat.
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The Greens Really Do ’Ave ’Em
Foul-mouthed rants defending murderous Islamic regimes… just another day for the Greens.
Blobudsman Shows His True Colours
New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman unlawfully sides with the forces of opaqueness and censorship.
Rest in a Thousand Pieces Khamenei
The only sure thing is that the same critics will trot out the same arguments against any action on Iran stronger than cancelling the mullahs’ Swiss retirement visas, especially if it’s carried out by their least favourite orange-hued president.
What It Actually Costs To Live ‘Green’ Like Chris Hipkins
Forget ‘let them eat cake’, now it’s ‘let them have solar’.