Phil Goff: Planned Lockdown Protests an Insult to People Making Sacrifices and Following the Rules Phil Goff says he hopes protests won’t involve confrontation and actions that make people unsafe. He says if they do, they should expect Police to respond. Read the article in full here. Comment on
Here’s a startling proposition for the media, politicians and public health bureaucrats: start telling the truth. Not just bits of the truth, the bits you want us to hear – salted liberally with half-truths and outright lies. Even more importantly, start acting like you really believe it. No sneaking off
Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Where have all our freedoms gone? So goes the next line in the song “…long time passing.” And according to many of our illustrious politicians, they agree with this tune! Both Sir John Key and PM Jacinda Ardern are joining a global political trend, where they
David Seymour ACT Leader It’s time to start planning for life beyond lockdowns. We can’t keep living with the uncertainty that we could be locked down again at any moment. It’s time to look to the future with a renewed sense of confidence. Delta has changed the
New Conservative Ted Johnston New Conservative Spokesman New Conservative states the Labour government’s Covid 19 response strategy of ongoing lockdowns must stop. New Zealanders are tired of these continued restrictions on movement and freedom. Businesses are suffering with people digging into their retirement and other savings just to stay
Many a politician or their ilk has been ‘wasted’ on Newshub Nation by Tova O’Brien so Judith Collins was right to be wary of suffering the same fate when asked to go on Nation. She said ‘Not Tova’, and Tova crowed about this comment on Newshub. Anyway a compromise
While the rest of the “Team of $55 million” in Big Media were dribbling over a video of Jacinda Ardern walking in Wellington, claiming it went viral, they missed the real viral explosion all over her Facebook page. Quite why she decided to offer up unsolicited medical advice on Facebook
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 28th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Just a PPE dream As we’ve seen, the perception of widely available testing proved, on closer inspection, to be a
How obedient are you? Do you conform to peer pressure? If you had been in Germany in 1936, would you have been like this man — the one man in a crowd refusing to salute the Nazis? Here’s a bit of what Ezra had to say about one famous photo
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The madness of crowds is one thing, but a state of more than six million people succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome is quite another. Yet how else to explain the mad enthusiasm of so many Victorians for their odious, corrupt, incompetent socialist premier? Easily the worst premier in the nation, especially
