Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet The Sunday Times, the leading newspaper in the UK, has launched a campaign to end the ban on assisted suicide. It has thrown its weight behind a private member’s bill in the House of Lords introduced by Baroness
Dear Prime Minister Today is the 3rd anniversary of Gumboot Friday and to celebrate I’ll be walking 100,000 meters in Gumboots around the Auckland Domain to raise $100k that will go towards our $5 million goal. If we reach our goal it will provide over 37,000 free
It’s taken far too long for the Government move on saliva testing at the border but National welcomes the announcement nonetheless, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National has been pushing for the Government to include saliva testing as part of the testing methods for our border workers
The Labour Party really has a bad reputation for the non-delivery of promises; breaking major promises almost weekly. Following the failures of Kiwibuild, light rail, solving child poverty, mental health funding amongst many, many others, they’ve now broken another election promise: Labour has shifted the goalposts on one of
It’s been a stock trope of post-apocalyptic fiction since at least the late 1950s, when Walter M Miller published his classic A Canticle for Liebowitz. In Miller’s book, even a thousand years after a nuclear war, mutants like the two-headed Mrs Grales persist, like a nuclear Mark of
I despise the late Paul Holmes with a passion. And no, it’s not because he shamelessly ripped off Aussie’s Derryn Hinch. To explain why, I need to go back to around 2009. In 2009 Paul’s daughter (you know the one) was a full-on meth addict. Together with
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then CEO
Thursday’s Broken Compass Budget has revealed the impact the Government’s decision to radically restructure our health sector will have on the health of all New Zealanders, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Labour has allocated almost half billion dollars to ‘begin the transition’ to its proposed
The more the “progressive” left scream and bluster that there’s no slippery slope, the faster they shove us all down its greased rails. It took less than two years to go from a state-run mail-in opinion survey on gay marriage to radical transgender laws in Tasmania (the latter was
Brooke van Velden ACT Health Spokesperson Health Minister Andrew Little owes an apology to Patient Voice Aotearoa for accusing them of using “extremist rhetoric. Patient Voice Aotearoa is a group that is advocating for medicines for people who are sick or dying. For a Minister to accuse them of extremism
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson It is grotesque political theatre to make people wait for the budget to get their medicines funded each year. A more mature Government would have included funding in the PHARMAC review so that we have a policy to compare options of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such
There’s an old saying in journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That is, the media are more likely to report the extraordinary. “Man bites dog” is a far more interesting story than vice-versa. The only problem with that is that it leads to a very skewed worldview for the
David Seymour ACT Leader and Epsom MP The Laura Fergusson Trust which provides critical services to young disabled people has broken its silence and agreed to meet with the Minister of Health. This is fantastic news which follows my questions to the Health Minister in Parliament yesterday and a rally
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seemingly daily we read of GP misdiagnosis costing lives. From long experience I would say this. First; understand that GP’s are, general practitioners with the emphasis on “general”. That is they can only really deal effectively with relatively minor obvious issues. If a GP
Health Minister Andrew Little needs to rule out cutting health services to pay for his radical restructuring plans for the health sector, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. National has a letter from Andrew Little to Finance Minister Grant Robertson, setting out his priorities for Budget 2021. “The
Trigger warnings. Suddenly, they’re everywhere. So-called “triggers” have proliferated faster than “gender dysphoria” in a clique of teenage girls with Instagram accounts. And they’re every bit as real: which is to say, they’re a phony fad, cooked up by leftists terrified of having to debate their blatantly
