Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org A New Zealand Muslima named Aliya Danzeisen, who happens to be a former corporate lawyer from the United States, has given voice to a brave warning to New Zealand about a grave character flaw hidden in the depths of new National Party leader Todd Muller’s
You would think that the government’s plan to throw money at everything that moves would be a sure-fire way to stay popular right up till the election. After all, no one is going to say no to free money or begrudge the newly unemployed being given financial assistance,
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I made the point in an earlier article prior to Friday’s leadership challenge that my reservation with Todd Muller was his views on climate change and other matters pertaining to the environment. While I still hold that view, l have to admit to being impressed with his performance since
All of a sudden the MSM is very big on conflicts of interest even if they were eventually declared. There has been a big pile-on and a concerted attempt to throw political commentator and lobbyist Matthew Hooton under a bus. Before I go any further, for the record I
National Party leadership change – commentary, analysis Richard Harman (Politik): Adams’ return signals what really lay behind Muller’s campaign John Armstrong (1News): Todd Muller is capable and qualified despite uninspiring opening as National leader Claire Trevett (Herald): Anatomy of a coup: How Todd Muller felled Simon Bridges and who helped
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com When Parliament rushed through the Wuhan Virus Public Health Response Bill last week, the redoubtable Cameron Slater observed that New Zealand had thereby formally become a police state. The following atrocities from the Act make clear that this claim was not hyperbole. Allow time for the
Blaming Simon Bridges for his party’s dreadful polling at the end of a global pandemic is as unfair as it is unreasonable, but relentless negative media coverage finally brought about his demise. Jacinda Ardern’s meteoric rise in the polls, an expression of gratitude from the public that COVID-
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George I recall when I was a few months into my marriage my beloved passed the comment that she never expected to end up with someone like me. My response was to parrot her by admitting that I too, never expected to end up with someone like her. She was
George Let me make it clear, I have never been a supporter of the Bridges/Bennett leadership of National. My personal preference has always been Judith Collins however, I think the hit job mounted against Bridges was unreasonable. Only three months ago National was polling at 43% whilst Labour was
