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Italy Joins the US in Containing China
Preserving the Mediterranean’s security, safeguarding freedom of flow and maintaining its strategic centrality are not tactical options, but existential duties for both Italy and the Western bloc.
Stay Right Where You Are, New Zealanders
Australia is in trouble enough without Wellington wokies flocking here.
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
Running Defence on a Shoestring and a Tin Can
Labor is letting our strength run to wrack and ruin.
White House Introduces Media Bias Offender Hall of Shame
Consequences of media bias are too high stakes to get it wrong.
The Real Monster Raving Loony Party
Meanwhile, the rest of us can sit back and watch the rest of the show as the Titanic Party creates its own icebergs to sink itself.
We Need To Reform the Judiciary
Victoria’s crime wave has exposed a justice system that is failing both victims and the wider public.
NZ Must Stop Supporting These Textbooks
Imagine a school system funded by New Zealand whose textbooks glorified killing Māori, or demonised Pasifika, or taught that Muslims were inherently evil. There would be immediate, universal condemnation. So why is the response so muted when the hatred is directed at Jews?
Landmark UK Clinical Trial on Puberty Blockers Set To Begin
This is the trial the NZ Government was referencing it would follow when it announced an end to use of puberty blockers on gender dysphoric children. Hopefully, the outcry in the United Kingdom will see the end of this flawed and dangerous trial.
This Is a Bad Idea
If being born onto welfare and staying there long-term is a risky business for children, why would any government want to encourage this?
At the End of Year Two, How Are They Doing?
Where does that leave me? Out of a possible five, I give the Government 2.5. But a Labour-led coalition with the Greens and Te Pāti Māori would, on the face of it, score very substantially less – perhaps even a zero.
More on Prize Givings and Education
A prize for learning to be a conformist, agreeing with things that you know are not true… Really?
Guess Who Is Funding the White Anting of Our Democracy?
This was just another taxpayer-funded junket for Māori Sovereignty activists to slam the ‘racist’ government.