Darryl Betts Beneath the devastation the New Zealand government has wrought on businesses, jobs, and schools is the looming threat to large parts of what remains of people’s lives outside of work. Vaccine mandates threaten to permanently deprive many people of things that make life worth living. This isn’
It is deeply troubling that the Auditor-General has identified “serious concerns” about aspects of the Government’s saliva testing procurement process this year and the need for an urgent independent inquiry has never been greater, says National’s COVID-19 Spokesperson Chris Bishop. “As I have said for months,
Suit and Tie Sports can sometimes be such a great analogy for life, which is why sports movies often make compelling watching. This week Jacinda Ardern decided to treat us to her very own spin on a much-loved classic. There is that famous scene in the 1996 movie Jerry
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One thing that’s particularly notable about millenarian doomsday cults is that they’ll never admit they’re wrong. It’s as true of Kent Hovind and Jeanne Dixon, as it is of climate alarmists or the Branch Covidians. But at least nutters like Hovind and Dixon have the excuse
R. M. Huffman rt.com Information Op-Ed R. M. Huffman is a physician, author, and observer of culture. One undeniable outcome of the pandemic is that the public’s faith in scientific and medical authorities is perhaps at its lowest point in living memory – and no objective observer can
We all know that the elite have been shamelessly exploiting the CCP virus pandemic from the get-go. But could they please stop treating us like the biggest mugs on the planet, and telling the most obvious lies? Still, I suppose they must be fooling someone, or else why would
Our government claims to care about minorities and their rights yet it is actively encouraging businesses to discriminate against the minority of people who are not vaccinated, including those who have had Covid and have no need to get vaccinated because they already have superior natural immunity. We recently ran
The wheels have well and truly fallen off this Government right as we should be reaching the crucial juncture of opening up our internal borders and restoring freedoms to Kiwis, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. No one would blame New Zealanders for feeling alarmed and blindsided by the
The safety and long-term effects of the Pfizer injectable are yet to become apparent. Time will tell. Concerns remain. When the Pfizer product was released we were told it required two doses. Millions of us accepted that we would need to comply, for differing reasons, although not all of
November 9th, 2021. The view from afar of my country is changing rapidly. Gone is the egalitarian, socially responsible country where differences could be worked out by discussions, negotiations and the ballot box. The implementation of MMP helped to put a stop to that by granting minority parties unprecedented negotiation
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and politicasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. How to Spot the Unvaccinated – A Bigot’s Guide Information Satire Until vaccine passports arrive
Let me take you back to September when the great Siouxsie Wiles was caught out breaking Level 4 lockdown rules by sitting on a beach with a friend, who then went swimming. In spite of there being a video of these very events, Wiles responded by warning people about ‘misinformation‘
Paul Heyward University of Auckland Paul Heyward’s Research areas include: How teachers make ethically challenging decisions, The ethical nature of teaching, Teacher professionalism, The place of a Code of Ethics/Conduct in the lives of professionals, Drama as a pedagogical approach in tertiary education settings, Critical reflection, Gender dynamics
Yesterday saw the royal progress of the ‘Queen of the Pestilence’ in Auckland, and her very first visit was to a business that has experienced zero impact from her draconian lockdowns: Ardern was shown around JMP Engineering in Avondale with the Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Brett O’Riley.
