I am peeved, as are many other firearms licence holders, by the way the government has passed a firearms law for “compulsory confiscation” with possibly inadequate compensation. When I was involved in public protests from Wellington Railway Station to Parliament grounds for both the “Fart Tax” and “Public Access” or
By Nathanael In response to a National party attack advertisement that targeted Government policy (which the National party had to pay to have disseminated), the Green party launched an online attack ad that targeted Simon Bridges personally. Green party members then, righteous beings that they are, declared that they were
Protests continue at the long-disputed Ihumatao construction site in Auckland, and protesters are calling in reinforcements from around the country. SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) spokeswoman Pania Newton told the crowd at Ihumatao on Wednesday evening that more people would be arriving the next morning. Buses would be coming from
Dave Rubin is on the other side of the interview in this video. He is challenged on various things and responds in a calm and friendly way. It is a very interesting interview and he makes some great points about why his style of interviewing is so popular. If you
While it’s mildly surprising that vegan activists have been able to summon up the strength to carry their recent campaign of intimidation and violence against farming families, what’s been truly shocking is the indulgence with which police have treated these soy-powered terrorists. When militants raided a goat farm
**The sole member of the Orakei Local Board to vote against the allocation of these grants was Carmel Claridge. From the Mayor’s office right down to local boards, wasteful spending is rife at Auckland Council. The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance has revealed that the council are now paying for Remuera
I’ve written many times about the sense of déjà vu I frequently get when observing New Zealand politics. It might be some comfort to readers to consider the parallels between Jacinda Ardern and Kevin Rudd (remember that guy?), but there is another depressingly familiar narrative emerging. Despite the fact
The Green Party published an advert mocking Simon Bridges and his accent. The Green Party has deleted an ad attacking Simon Bridges because its members were not happy. The ad paints National Party leader Bridges as a used car salesmen at “Simon’s Imports”, using old footage of the National
By John The piece from Chris Trotter on Incite Politics, It’s Winston ‘The Tool Man’ Peters was an interesting but somewhat confusing read. I got the logic of where he was coming from but in my view, the narrative was not supportive of it in terms of the reality.
In response to criticism from law-abiding gun owners of the CoL’s latest brain fart of creating a National Gun register, the PM has changed tack. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says a proposed gun register isn’t about law-abiding firearms owners, but rather the people who steal them.” This woman
We have been saying it on the blog for some time. This government is crashing what was, only a short time ago, a very well managed economy. The signs have been there for a while, but one of the most worrying aspects of recent times is that interest rates are
The ‘Collins threshold’ has now been reached. The ‘Collins threshold’ is the number to trigger a leadership spill if National dropped below 40% in the polls. UMR’s latest polling has National slipping two percentage points from June’s 40% to 38%. Worse still is the left-right gap, which is
