Helen Houghton Co-Leader, New Conservative The Prime Minister’s warm smile is wearing off, and we can see the Labour government’s lack of compassion underneath. This is not the ‘Kind NZ”, that Labour promised. This is not the kind of New Zealand we know or want. Instead of taking
The Chinese Communist Party have no compulsion about cutting down even the tallest poppies. From the nation’s most famous actress to its richest man, Beijng will summarily “disappear” anyone who gets on the wrong side of the Xi Xinping. Then there’s Daniel Andrews. Michael Leunig’s storied half-century
Francis Kennedy I want you to forget about Covid, passports and traffic lights for a moment and I want to throw one word out there – “process”. Picture any disaster movie you want and you can visualise a round table of experts drawn from various countries or fields to discuss how
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Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com 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 I grew up in a New Zealand where we looked up to really inspiring people. People who made a
Dear Editor The legacy of Ardern is shaping up to be the most divisive in NZ history, even surpassing Muldoon’s tenure as PM and that is somewhat unkind to him as he achieved many good things and his modus operandi was clearly understood. The current government has been surreptitiously
I am a nerd and I do statistics as a hobby! For the record, I am double-jabbed based on an assessment of my personal risk but I am absolutely pro-choice because the risk for many other people is more from the vaccine than the virus. The abuse of the unvaccinated
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In the past few weeks, I have begun to hear the phrase ‘holding us to ransom’ a lot more frequently. Specifically, it is the unvaccinated who are apparently holding the country to ransom. Is this really accurate? Let’s imagine a scenario where a terrorist
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The giant Merck pharmaceutical company has announced production of its covid “booster pill” which it has successfully tested. It’s abundantly clear that boosters are critical, our Pfizer vaccines losing strength within six months. While no doubt Covid Minister Hipkins will trot out our “head
Joanna Pennyfeather So it is finally official. New Zealand is a two-class system, with some people granted some of their basic human rights and freedoms back, and others being actively and legally discriminated against. The unpersoning of the unvaccinated is now government policy. Medical apartheid is now a fact. Don’
@gluboco How to help: please amplify this message My initial goal with this article was to inform English-language readers of the Covid Pass changes happening in Europe. But as I’ve seen that my post has bounced back and gotten attention in my country, I’ve thought that maybe this
@gluboco What to Do? My wife and I don’t know what to do. We’ve never been involved or interested in politics. We don’t like to fight. And we don’t want publicity. We like our privacy. Can’t Talk to Officials. I’ve tried to meet with
