What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
Gratitude is the first principle of prosperity. Demanding something for nothing misunderstands both economics and human nature.
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Just Cram a Sock in It, Boomer
It’s been 50 years since the voters rejected your commie hero, get over it.
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Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
The Increase in Wrong Release
These are not anomalies. In the year to March 2025, 262 prisoners were mistakenly released, a 128 per cent surge from 115 the previous year, and a 434 per cent leap from 49 in 2015.
COP30: The Usual Ones Sound the Alarm
Prince William speaks, but others are singing a new climate tune.
Inflatable Ingrid, Simon’s New Friend
Honestly, you buy one little blow-up doll and people assume the worst.
‘Let’s Meet for Coffee’: Matthew Horncastle
Horncastle said he has been approached for informal discussions about future political involvement but remains focused on business. “But if in 10 years’ time New Zealand is still heading in the wrong direction, I’ll have a crack at running. And if I run, I run to win.”
In Defence of Sir John Kerr
A constitutionally-correct decision and a service to the nation.
And the Next United Nations Secretary-General Is...
If a young girl who started out wrapping greasies in a Morrinsville fish shop on a Friday night can end up as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, anything is possible!
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This Is the Gentle Tyranny
There’s a perfect word for this system, a system that reaches into every corner of your existence, from your speech to how you spend your private life, and justifies itself all as being ‘for your own good’.