Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Re yesterday’s Blog and my return from abroad to find a pile of computer-generated letters from the ASB re a deceased person’s account, closed 6 years back, another one arrived in today’s mail. All this remember over 80 cents, the Bank must
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Here’s the latest media release from Family First NZ… A new website WokeUp.nz has just been launched by Family First NZ. The website documents wokeness in New Zealand-based businesses so that Kiwi consumers can decide for themselves who to do business with and who
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Beware of ministers and mayors with simple solutions to any city’s problems! A series of snake-oil salesmen have
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Much finger-wagging and self-righteous condemnation are happening in the halls of government these days, regarding revelations that HHS, our umbrella public
Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor-in-chief of Mercator. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com The American state of Michigan recently legalised commercial surrogacy. “This is the most pro-family thing that the Legislature has done,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer as she signed the legislation into law. Every American state
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a husband, father, freelance writer, and a familiar Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He is the Senior Editor at Australia’s largest Christian news site The Daily Declaration and a Contributing Editor at Mercator. His writings can also be found at Intellectual
There’s a deep crisis crippling science. Just don’t ask the Science Bros and IFLScience normies about it, because their grasp of actual science rarely goes beyond witless internet memes. These are the people who think Neil deGrasse Tyson is a great scientist. Behind the public facade of ‘Trust
Who would’ve thought it. Shane Jones goes to the very place where the Labour Party was founded, Blackball, and, representing a centre-right coalition government, he gets a standing ovation! This electorate is traditionally a Labour stronghold: the mighty West Coast. This should have Labour MPs faces reflecting the colour
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com A fundamental doctrine of public health are the inextricable links between animal, ecosystem and human health. The United Nations biosecurity agenda has misappropriated this doctrine into a ‘One Health’ approach. This article provides some background to One Health, using current declarations
Rod Kane As many of you may well know I detest the media almost as much as I detest people like Willie Jackson and indeed every single Maori activist and the dumb white wokeys that support them. The night back in 2020 when Jacinda Ardern got in I immediately cancelled
David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
Alan Renwick Professor of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand David Dean Associate Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Markets, Lincoln University, New Zealand Fonterra caught the business world by surprise last week with plans to sell off its consumer brands and businesses – including supermarket mainstays such as Anchor, Fresh’n
One of the oddities about New Zealand is how swift the country is to reward failure, yet highly reluctant to view success with the same level of approbation. I call it “The New Zealand Disease” and find it amusing. Add in a dollop or two of wokeness and you have
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. cfact.org Renewable billionaires would be crazy if they weren’t funding “Environmental Activists” Nick Cater points out one mysterious charity, the Sunrise Project Australia had a
It seems that wherever you look, folks are using Temu to buy extremely low-priced products covering almost every style, type, and category. Temu promises exclusive discounts and ultra-low prices, but at what cost? Useless products? Cheap-knockoffs? Packages that never arrive? […] When shopping online, there’s always a risk of purchasing
Last week I gave a rebuttal of the advice from the financial advisors Sean Plunket has on his radio station. Since then several folks have asked me to clarify some points I made. What particularly doesn’t seem to compute (perhaps due to a lifetime of exposure to buzzwords from
