Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com There’s not much of New Zealand in NZ Initiative. Its staff are mostly imported, and its Executive Director, Oliver Hartwich, is German; his English remains, in spite of my best efforts, unintelligibly, robotically Germanic in the manner of a John Cleese spoof. Ordinarily, as a
Housing Henry Cooke (Stuff): If it wants to fix housing, Labour needs to get out of its defensive crouch Bernard Hickey (Stuff): Millennials suffer as old generals fight the previous war Tracy Watkins (Stuff): What happens when the only way for housing seems to be up? Steven Joyce (Herald): It’
ACT Party “The latest Covid community case is more evidence that the Government runs on smiles and slogans,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “How is it that a financially struggling media which operates on the smell of an oily rag was able to alert people at The Vincent Residences there
We are told the latest coronavirus case is linked to the Defence Force cluster. That’s as may be but the real cluster in all of this appears to be the Government itself. From the ‘hard and early’ joke, its handling of the virus has been hopeless. This latest case
The Moscow Circus is in Auckland this month but it has stiff competition in the clown department. There were lies, live and exclusive on the AM show yesterday morning with “anxious Aucklanders (are) waiting with bated breath for the results of genome sequencing from the latest case of COVID-19”
November 10, 2020 Dear Ms. Clark, UN Watch respectfully requests that you recuse yourself as co-chair of the WHO inquiry into the origin of and global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Though WHO chief Dr. Tedros has lauded you as an independent leader who is singularly qualified to head
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ACT Party “Aucklanders will be asking whether the Government is upholding its end of the COVID-19 bargain,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New arrivals at the MIQ facility at the Grand Millennium were seen on Monday mixing and mingling with people from The Vincent Residences.“Several hundred people from
Housing and Reserve Bank Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Greens co-leader James Shaw lashes out at Labour over rising house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): James Shaw says it’s time to tax capital gains and wealth to take heat of housing market RNZ: PM Jacinda Ardern on house prices: ‘It just
[…] Hipkins said they would give information as it came to hand. He said the response needed to be calm and methodical and that information would be shared as quickly as it could be. He repeated the message that “people are not the problem, they are the solution”. He urged anyone
If media did half the job they are supposed to, this would not be news. “In a 1987 Democratic primary debate, Biden sprinkled Kinnock’s phrases into his own speech and forgot to credit him – a blunder many believe cost him the presidency.” Lord Kinnock is a former leader of
Covid in this country has become a comedy on so many fronts. It’s a comedy primarily because there are a bunch of clowns trying to run it. From the get-go these idiots haven’t had a clue how to handle it. What has let this ship of fools
National Party Luke Malpass (Stuff): Judith Collins’ first shadow cabinet raises more questions than answers Richard Harman: National abandons tax cuts Henry Cooke (Stuff): Who is up and who is down in the latest National Party reshuffle Claire Trevett (Herald): Why Simon Bridges rejected Judith Collins’ reshuffle offer (paywalled) Amelia
April 2020: “Operation Warp Speed President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed on May 15, 2020 in the White House Rose Garden. Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a public–private partnership, initiated by the Trump administration, to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines,
The fallout from the announcement of the lockdown continues. Today, the Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance and the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty appeared before the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. Labour MP Graham Stringer asked Sir Patrick if he believed he had frightened people with
National Party Jo Moir (RNZ): Judith Collins set to announce National Party shadow cabinet Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Does National’s new deputy Shane Reti have his eyes on the bigger prize? Luke Malpass (Stuff): Dr Shane Reti’s promotion to deputy good first move from National Claire Trevett (Herald)
