One of the major reasons the political and media establishment in Australia hate Pauline Hanson so much is that she has a habit of saying what the rest of Australia is thinking. And the rest of Australia frequently thinks things that establishment cannot and will not tolerate. When Hanson wore
Since we went into lockdown doctors have started coming out of the woodwork. After all, it’s not often that medical doctors write opinion pieces in national newspapers. Pathologist Dr John Lee has written a second article for The Spectator in which he is at great pains to point out
In 2010, British singer and animal rights advocate, Morrissey, called attention to the sort of Chinese “wet markets” which led directly to the Wuhan virus outbreak. “If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade – animals skinned alive – then they could not possibly
We are at Level 4 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels. * Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services. * Only make physical contact with
Well, it’s happening already. “A police website for reporting suspected lockdown breaches was so overrun with complaints it crashed just hours after being launched,” […] “If you suspect a business or individual is breaching the Covid-19 level four isolation rules you can now head online to fill out a
In 2015 Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland rejected the EU’s open-border policy, slamming their borders shut to the millions of economic migrants spewing into Europe from the Middle East and Africa. The unwelcome visitors were rejected for a variety of reasons: they brought with them a
This committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. It meets on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1000-1230.
Beware the ides of March. Julias Caesar ignored such superstitious claptrap, yet the advice, if heeded, might have changed world history; who knows? The ides – ‘the middle”, from which we get ‘divide’ – has come and gone. At the ‘kalender’, the beginning of the month, our leader assured us the chances
Requests by National party members of the Epidemic Response Committee and esteemed epidemiologist Sir David Skegg to fully quarantine all people coming into our country were met with a lukewarm response by top government officials being questioned on Tuesday. The rationale behind the question was if the country is suffering
Mark Much comment has been made about the mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak by China and rightly so. It needs to be made crystal clear that our beef is absolutely not with the people of China. It is with the leadership of China. The people of China are suffering
Just 15 days ago Education Minister Chris Hipkins stated very publicly that schools, universities, polytechnics and early-childhood centres are “very, very safe places” to be, despite the coronavirus pandemic. A great deal has happened in the 15 days since he made that stupid statement. One of the worst clusters
Today’s face of the day is Sir David Skegg of the University of Otago for telling it like it is. He was not afraid to be blunt about our failures and the reality we face. He didn’t tow the party line he was brutally honest. Give that man
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The intelligentsia, Thomas Sowell once wrote, pay no price for being wrong. Politicians lose elections, businessmen go broke, even sports coaches see their teams lose. But academics who are repeatedly wrong are rewarded with tenure. Where they get to keep being wrong, again and again. Instead, everyone else pays the
