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A Law and Order Policy Blueprint
Variations on the familiar socialist intersectional theme of characterising offenders as victims, before swinging back to a hyped up, tough on crime approach, are both equally unsupported by the evidence and doomed to fail.
Stanford’s Underwhelming Response to a Key Question
Stanford might be better than Hipkins and Tinetti, but that is a VERY low bar.
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Do Rising House Prices Damage Growth?
Just when this trend looks like it might gradually make housing more affordable, with immense social benefits and, apparently, considerable benefits in improving our disappointingly poor record in productivity growth, the prime minister panics.
The Great NZ Political Cosplay Competition
Last Saturday night at an undisclosed Wellington location, our pollies held a boozy bacchanal to decide who was the number one political cosplayer. Prizes were given and competition was fierce.
All Is Now Laid Bare
We are witnessing what a left-wing government will look like and the ensuing dire consequences for the country. Hipkins will simply cave or the radicals will bring him down. They won’t be there to protect Hipkins or keep him in power.
PM Says Amazon Will Invest $7.5 Billion in New Zealand
The development is expected to create around 1000 jobs and add $11 billion to the country’s GDP.
Labour’s Poll Surge on Cost of Living: Voters Have Short Memories, National Needs a Wake-Up Call
The fact that Labour is viewed as best for 14 of the top 20 issues should cause National’s caucus to pull their heads out of their fundaments and sort it out.
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Shills of the Day
New Zealand diplomats based in Beijing will be officially representing the government at the military parade. Government ministers were not invited.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… quibble (verb, noun): verb 1: to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words 2a: carp b: bicker noun 1: an evasion of or shift from the point 2: a minor objection or criticism Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The verb quibble followed the