What Is It With the Left?
The moral is to never let the left near the levers of power, or disaster will surely follow.
Economy
This Could Be a Strength In 2026
NZ’s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small.
Show Us the Receipts
If MPs want trust, they should stop asking for it and start earning it. Publish the receipts. Every quarter. Every MP. Until then, do not be surprised when the public assumes the worst.
Pakuranga Fire and a Cheap Shot
Spare us the moral grandstanding about firefighters “gambling with lives” when the real gamble is a system that underpays essential services while happily burning money elsewhere.
Why I Am So Grateful to Tim Walz
Ultimately solving this problem will come down to Congress. They have to be willing to do this. And for the most part, they aren’t. Too many of their constituents and donors make money off this graft, and a portion of the funds end up as campaign contributions.
The UK Is in Freefall
England’s predicament has been managed and self-inflicted. Britain chose a path that prioritized symbolic commitments and distributional narratives over growth, affordability, and territorial cohesion.
All Connected – Socialism, Entitlement, and Tyranny
Once prosperous and cultured, Venezuela has become destitute, crime-ridden, and hopeless. Young socialists should take heed.
Property, Ownership and the Foundations of Patriotism
Over the last 50 years, surveys in the US and Australia show a rising unwillingness to fight for one’s nation, especially among youth – from 20–30 per cent in the 1980s/1990s to 50–70 per cent in the 2020s. This decline mirrors plummeting home ownership rates among young people.
Wrong: This Isn’t a Mystery
Until the vibes change and motherhood again is presented as a deeply pleasurable and meaningful experience, young women and men will continue to choose the gym and lie-ins over the deep joy of creating new life. Shame.
Waipareira Survived Deregistration by Paperwork and Power
This is where the hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.
Māori Poverty Pays Very Well, if You Run the Trust
New Zealand needs to put these charities under a microscope. Not a friendly review, not another glossy report, but hard audits, clear benchmarks and real consequences.
Rich People Won’t Just Sit Still While You Tax Them
Higher taxes motivate the wealthy to move out of state and take their job-providing, revenue-creating businesses with them.
The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists
While institutions charge private foundations like Gates a mere 10 per cent and Rockefeller 15 per cent for indirect costs, they charge the NIH much higher rates – 69 per cent for Harvard, 67.5 per cent for Yale, and 63.7 per cent for Johns Hopkins.