Quick Hit: Luxon’s ‘Full Support’ Line Is the Kiss of Death
The moment a senior minister stops echoing the ‘full support’ line in interviews is the moment the coup is complete.
Law and Order
Quick Hit: Playground Predators and the Compassionate Justice Joke
How many other “high-risk” offenders are out there with conditions nobody is enforcing?
Quick Hit: Gang Funding – The State-Sponsored Patronage Era Ends
The media’s attempt to frame this as ‘losing community engagement’ is a joke: you cannot engage with a criminal enterprise without becoming its payroll office.
Quick Hit – The Judiciary Has Lower Standards Than the Northern Club
The Judicial Conduct Panel has set a precedent – and it’s the wrong one. It has told every judge in the country that you can publicly heckle a senior government minister, accuse him of lying, invoke your judicial colleagues as political allies and still keep your job.
Quick Hit: Gangs Act Gets Its First Scalp – And the Apologists Are Already Crying
A Mongrel Mob member has been convicted for wearing gang insignia while driving home from a tangi. The High Court just upheld it on appeal.