Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. Stuart Nash, the ‘renewed’ Minister of Police, says he doesn’t think dairies should sell tobacco. Call me old fashioned, but maybe Nash as the Minister of Police needs to focus on ensuring these criminal thugs are caught and held to account, instead of waxing
After his concert in Wellington on Thursday night, Sheeran said in another Instagram story that he wanted chocolate from Whittaker’s. “Whittaker’s NZ chocolate, you made a bar of chocolate with my face on it, I’ve just seen the memes,” he said. “I’m in Wellington for one
Michael Naylor Senior Lecturer in Economics Massey University The clean-up from Auckland’s devastating floods last week is just beginning but insurance companies will need to start thinking about what the record-breaking weather event will mean for future coverage. Over 24 hours, 249mm of rain fell across the Auckland region
Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com. The bizarre Project Veritas “sting” videos that have gone ultra-viral on Twitter have undoubtedly confused the public
Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com I’m Peter Imanuelsen | Swedish journalist | Political commentator | Supporter of freedom, kindness and liberty | It’s hard for me to put into words just how big this story is. This is a scandal of epic proportions. This is THE biggest news story not only of
Unfortunately, it’s a myth that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen when he died. Unfortunate, because, had we the technology, it’d be awesome to fix his thawed head into a gigantic robot body, and send him rampaging like Futurama’s Robot Nixon through the degenerate circus that has been
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Catalina Goanta Associate Professor Law, Economics and Governance Utrecht University In the age of vloggers, influencers and content creators it might seem hard to imagine a world without YouTube. But back when the first ever video was uploaded in April 2005, showing a man visiting a zoo, it was not
Last week I wrote about how the Reserve Bank has got it wrong by reducing interest rates to close to zero, and then pushing them up at a rate of knots when inflation, that they created, started to hit. Some of you disagreed with that opinion, and in particular some
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above conference as always, will attract much media attention. It’s all fairly predictable. Some show-pony rich attendees will call for wealth taxes solely to get publicity as to their goodness, but safe in the knowledge that no one present will agree. Various predictable
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,
Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF
Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa
Economists and business writers are sending us dire warnings about the inflationary outlook for the coming year. They are mostly likely correct. After creating the biggest asset bubble in decades by lowering interest rates, ostensibly to stimulate the economy – and making assets particularly cheap – the Reserve Bank is now hiking
They’re a strange mob, the Greens. They’ll chain themselves to the gate six-deep to a mining site if word gets out that a wallaby fell in a tailings dam and drowned. But the same gaggle of smelly unemployables and pious nosey-nannas are nowhere to be seen while wind-farms
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s (NZIER) latest quarterly survey showing the lowest business confidence in the survey’s history, it’s clear that real change is necessary to make New Zealand a prosperous country that is open for business. NZIER reports
