Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Zealand has always been ‘the little engine that could.’ It’s endearing imagery but also powerfully symbolic. But thanks to our leadership and their reckless decision-making now compounded by dogmatic digging-in, we are fast becoming the little engine that couldn’t. Today exactly what
The Taxpayers’ Union has revealed that the Treasury has helpfully set up a bank account for New Zealanders to make a donation to the Government coffers at any time. After inquiries with Treasury, the Taxpayers’ Union has confirmed that New Zealanders can voluntarily donate to a Crown receipts account to
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Government’s state of emergency has created a dangerous political vacuum. Decisions that profoundly affect everyone’s lives are being undertaken in an autocratic fashion without any attempt at democratic involvement. Even the typically reserved Law Society has raised concerns about the lack of
On Monday I wrote an article on how we are being fed the big scary numbers, probably in an attempt to keep us all fearful and therefore compliant. I argued that the numbers involved, in New Zealand at least, are very small and that we really don’t need to
Fred Lucas papundits.wordpress.com Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. “We have a solemn duty to make sure these unemployed Americans regain their jobs and their livelihoods. Therefore,
Simon Black Sovereignman.com Nearly seven centuries ago in the mid-1300s, the first major outbreak of the Bubonic Plague forced Europeans into some of the harshest social distancing measures in history. As Boccacio wrote in The Decameron in 1353, the hysteria was so extreme that “brother abandoned brother. . . fathers and
As some satirists in the US wagged, Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race because, with millions of Americans confined to their homes and dependent on government cheques to survive, and the economy in ruins, his goal of socialism had been accomplished. As always, satire holds up a mirror
While the legacy media would have us believe that Italians are welcoming being locked in their own homes and singing patriotic songs from their balconies in solidarity, things are rapidly deteriorating on the ground. Certainly, in the first week of lockdown, it might have seemed all fun and games and
Just before we went into lockdown, I heard how the Department of Health was recruiting retired health workers. Most of these people had allowed their registrations to lapse, but the Health Department was able to deal with that. It seemed that they were able to effect the re-registrations in most
Michael Reddell croakingcassandra.com People can agree or disagree with the government and its official agencies on the various numerous specifics of the handling of the coronavirus, up to and including yesterday’s decisions. But whether you or I, agree with individual choices that have been made – and I’m
The wage subsidy offered to businesses to keep employees is being used by all sorts of businesses in essential industries. As we saw with New World public pressure makes them withdraw claims or pay them back. At a time when every business owner who is not in an essential industry
With Monday’s announcement on moving to level three next Tuesday the adding of an extra week to level four shows complete ignorance of how business operates, the overheads involved, staff costs, compliance costs and the slim margins they operate on. As Bob Jones has pointed out in his last
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com In 2001 Professor Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology and director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, predicted up to 150,000 could die in the U.K. alone from mad cow disease. Panicked politicians and ballistic bureaucrats ordered
Today (Tuesday 21 April) we have 5 new cases of COVID-19. We have a total of 13 deaths, all older people with underlying health conditions. This is sad for their families, but in world terms, our numbers are very low. Whether we were never going to be badly affected, or
Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. covidplanb.co.nz An article published on Newsroom last week takes potshots at “contrarian” academics who have chosen to question received wisdom regarding how countries around the world, including New Zealand, are responding to COVID-19. As
