Prince Harry cut a sad and lonely figure walking behind his mother’s coffin in 1997. Since then, he has served in Afghanistan, partied long and hard, worn a Nazi shirt, fallen in love a few times, and finally, married an American mixed-race actress and been congratulated for his
The mainstream media have missed the big story of the National Party conference. Simon Bridges’ ally Glenda Hughes was voted off the board. This is a huge loss for National. Hughes was the one board member ready to advocate challenging sitting MPs, and getting rid of underperformers or problems. She
Question: I only have limited time to find the new articles on your site every day. How can I easily find only the new additions every day? I like to read everything new every day, not have to hunt for the ones with today’s date. Answer: The quick and
I thought Julie-Anne Genter was Associate Transport Minister, but it seems she is Associate Health Minister as well. When you think about the Department of Health, you tend to think about overworked doctors, overworked nurses, waiting lists, sewage in the walls (that turned out to be non-existent), cancer
From Facebook A reader drew my attention to an interesting point of view about Ihumatao that she read on a Facebook page yesterday. It had the headline: Two sides to every story. I whakapapa to the Whenua at Ihumatao. I have whanau living in the papakainga, and whanau buried in
Jacinda is nothing more than a virtue signalling prime minister who has won international acclaim for donning a hijab and hugging people, but telling Australia how to manage its own immigration policy is going to cost us dearly. We have already speculated that her finger-wagging at Australia will result
She has the magical power of being able to see a colourless, odourless, trace gas and even makes the cover of Vogue alongside our Dear Leader. However, some French political leaders are not drinking the Kool-Aid. As James Delingpole so eloquently stated in February: Her alarmist rhetoric was exactly
Kelvin Davis, as first assistant deputy prime minister, was in the hot seat during Question Time on Wednesday. Bridges asked him some questions. Hon Simon Bridges: Is he concerned that more New Zealanders think the economy will be in a worse state in the next year than think it will
Simon Bridges is constantly criticised for his accent, for being boring, for failing to have any public appeal, and for failing to hold a poorly performing government to account. Many of those criticisms are justified. But there is a reason why he can’t get any hits on the prime
Modern Treaty settlements are one of New Zealand’s greatest achievements. It’s no exaggeration to say they are world-leading policy. While the rest of the world is marred by terrorism, corruption, and violence, New Zealand has quietly gone about settling 180 years of disputes peacefully under the rule
Duncan: The latest political poll has NZ First below the threshold to stay in parliament, the party dropping from 5% to 3.3% in this latest poll. The same poll has National ahead of Labour by 2% points and joining us now is NZ First leader, Deputy Prime Minister, Acting
Mike: So over a good couple of days, as we were saying earlier in the show, for Simon Bridges’ political party – the cancer care announcement I think went reasonably well over the weekend and you’ve got to argue that it was an extraordinary thing for an opposition party to
I came across this tweet at the weekend, and I really did not know what to make of it. Remember that the person who wrote it is a member of our elected government, and is supposed to uphold the law and represent all New Zealanders. Initially, I thought she meant
Oh dear. You know you are in trouble when your office tries to shut down the media, who are asking perfectly legitimate questions about an issue that is currently at the forefront of the news. Jacinda Ardern has personally tried to prevent media from asking about the Ihumatao dispute while
[…] After previously saying the government would not intervene, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed on Friday that no building would take place at Ihumatao while a solution was being sought. A senior member of the iwi, Mr Rankin said he would lodge a complaint with police that the Prime Minister used
