David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is now either making it up as they go or completely detached from reality with its suggestion that people will need to book a slot to get through checkpoints heading out of Auckland. Chris Hipkins’ suggestion is the Government’s most unworkable idea yet,
Robin Cox Dear MPs You are responsible for determining the future of this great country through your actions during the next two weeks. Empathy is one of the greatest qualities anyone can possess. This is a plea for you as a collective group to show selfless empathy free of political
Summary This book explains the struggle for free speech in England over several centuries and how it was an established right by the time that British law came to New Zealand in 1840. In the 21st century, new forces have arisen to try to limit free speech on the grounds
Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. This year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom David Lange is one of the most tragic figures of
This week, a blunt instrument assault on my beloved National Party: stop pussy-footing, get down and politically dirty while we still have a country worth saving. Three events in the past few days have led to this. First, when a mildly conservative, long-established and community-respected daily newspaper, such as Masterton’
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and politicasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. Freedom Is the Freedom to Say There Are Two Human Sexes Apologies for starting this
Months ago I wrote about how you should look at polls, that they were like assessing the impact of a river on river banks and that depending on where you are standing it affects how you see the polls. Labour supporters have been cock-a-hoop for a long time about polling
A Northland Covid press briefing was cut short when a reporter asked Ardern a couple of hard questions. Her excuse for not answering the questions was that he was “non-accredited media.” When he persisted, she took her dedicated propaganda media team inside to finish answering their soft-ball questions there. Watch
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Revelations that the Government used PR spin to deceive New Zealanders and mask its failure in securing the Covid vaccine is a disgrace, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. That the Government started funding expensive spin doctors three months before it bothered to fund anyone to negotiate to buy
Jacinda Ardern, for all her posturing and wind-bagging about climate change, isn’t even deigning to grace the world’s biggest climate gab-fest. Probably she knew she’d be competing for the cameras with the media’s favourite climate pinup-girl. There’s nothing a diva hates worse than having to
After several months’ development the native myBFD app is now approved and live on the Apple App Store. The app for Android devices is already available on Google Play. The development of this app for members has been a long time coming and now turns myBFD into a fully-fledged social
