George What the hell is wrong with our country? It feels as if our backbone has been stripped from our spine. If the polls are anything to go by, this country is a dead man walking. We are currently governed by a group of student revolutionaries who are physically adults
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments
While frustration grows over the massive damage to both our civil liberties and our economy, damage caused by the over-reactions of Ardern’s Covid emergency-level management and her obvious failure on early border control, more and more voices join the chorus, saying – where’s the data you relied
I know this may come as somewhat of a shock to all you good people, sober of mind (in varying degrees) and firm of conviction, but I am going to suggest The ‘Artful Codger’ Winston Peters and his frightful sidekick “The Fisherman’s Friend” Jacinda Ardern, the duet masquerading as
Update: I have been told this morning that Police do now have the power to stop people to ensure compliance with lockdown under s71A(2)(c) of the Health Act 1956 However, anyone who isn’t Police has no power to stop a vehicle (except some limited other govt departments
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Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com A pandemic does not necessarily cause a recession on its own. It needs help. Historically, a pandemic has very rarely caused (or been correlated with) a recession: Did I say “rarely.” For the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, read “never.” So far. Why not? Because,
As I wrote previously, the legacy media have long ago stopped even pretending to report the facts. Especially when it concerns President Donald Trump. But even worse than lying about things which did happen, the legacy media are straight-up manufacturing lies out of whole cloth. A viral story which
Jacinda Ardern might brag about “going hard and early”, but the facts say otherwise. Ardern waited and dithered – most notably holding out until the very last day to cancel her grandstanding Christchurch memorial. Likewise, Ardern might also boast that New Zealand’s draconian lockdown “worked”, but there’s not much
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz With much journalistic ink spilled over COVID-19, it is easy to forget that our policies of lockdown and social distancing are based on a belief about the lethality of the virus and its spread. This belief comes from interpreting evidence. Currently, two main ideas
It’s a pity the media didn’t take more interest in the COVID-19 numbers presented at the daily briefings, or in the modelling the PM used to send us into lockdown and keep us there. The mantra, “It’s a miracle more of us weren’t killed”, pays
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We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions
