For two years, Australians have been lectured, brow-beaten, and finger-wagged by “experts”. Most significantly, they’ve had their most basic freedoms rudely stripped away on the advice of the same experts. Before that, it was years of “expert” foghorning on everything from climate change to sugar. Now the
The Red Queen featured in worldwide news last Monday when The New York Times reported that Ardern had finally ‘Given up the Ghost’ on her ‘Elimination Strategy’ for Covid 19. Similar reports appeared in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The ‘Fairy Princess’ had to leave the ball early or
Chris Hipkins If you haven’t yet made plans for Super Saturday, there’s still time to get involved (even if you’ve had your two shots!) and help New Zealand get vaccinated. If you missed the news, tomorrow’s Super Saturday event is taking place right around the country
Authoritarian states are alarmingly easy to slip into, much harder to dig out of. Freedom is a fragile thing. As Wendell Phillips said, Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. One of the tried-and-tested methods of stealing power
Intensive care unit occupancy rates in district health board areas with large Maori populations were at capacity even before Covid and the current Delta outbreak, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. This is yet more evidence of very slim ICU margins that we have at the moment and
Simon Watts Spokesperson for National’s Auckland MPs We, the National Party MPs for Auckland electorates, are calling on the Government to accept National’s offer of our comprehensive strategy to get New Zealand through these unprecedented times. We like to believe that every MP enters Parliament with an earnest
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand’s biggest party pooper, it’s time for her to cut the events industry some slack before they give up and stop organising things. • Christmas in the Park = Cancelled • Bay Dreams = Cancelled • Wellington Marathon = Cancelled • Canterbury A&P Show = Cancelled
Dear Editor So the Maori activists want to lock us all up at Level 4 again – and are using the NZ Herald to achieve it! The front page in today’s (Oct 15) Herald features a photo of Rawiri Taonui. It refers to him as a “health analyst.” “We’ve
Dear Editor I run three food manufacturing businesses based in Christchurch (HO) and two other sites one in Auckland and one in Hamilton. I have travelled to Auckland from Christchurch to our Auckland and Hamilton sites as soon as level 3 in Auckland came into effect last month and completed
KSK I don’t buy the reason we are given for the introduction of the ‘Lectern of Lies’. Luke Malpass (14/10/21) has it that it was to put all media on an equal footing, to allow everyone the same information at the same time. Isn’t that what
Angus Aardvark We see that the government has attributed Maori “Vaccine Hesitancy” to the residue of centuries of colonialism leading to a distrust of the government. How convenient for those who view everything through the lens of race. In reality, distrust of the government is the inevitable result of several
Scott Kennedy Guest post on sojournal.co.nz I am not an emotional person. In the last 20 years of life, I believe I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I have wept. Not that I think this is a virtue, it just seems part of
