You’ve got to love how civil servants fight back when they are being maligned by their political masters. When faced with mounting embarrassment and public discord over the failures at the border both Chris Hipkins and Jacinda Ardern said that their “expectations weren’t met.” Ignore for a moment
As is the desire of our socialist Government, I have a similar urge to rewrite history, but the difference is that my observations will correct history with evidence. April 03 2020, Newshub headline: “Health boss stands by COVID-19 border measures as National blasts ‘not good enough’ response”. Four months
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz I have consistently believed that cannabis is a harmful substance and that people who use it for “recreational purposes” would be more sensible to choose a healthy form of recreation that doesn’t put them and those dependent on them, i.e. their children
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You have problems. The lack of credibility and honesty of your administration, and of those you choose to work with, has been exposed this week. There is so much more for the populace to be concerned about than the pandemic, even more than a crumbling economy. What has emerged over
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Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz The authors are members of the Department of Economics and School of Population Health respectively at the University of Auckland. The views expressed are their own. During the Vietnam war, the well-known (and Kiwi-born) journalist Peter Arnett is supposed to have
Dear Editor The ineptitude of the National Party really knows no bounds. After almost three years of doing their absolute best to not be a credible opposition and annoy me as often as possible, their recent change of leadership had given me a glimmer of hope that they might be
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Talkback hosts have been fielding hostile calls all week. Little wonder that they’ve been damning in their weekly columns. Heather du Plessis-Allan is scathing of the government in her column: The Government’s decision to extend Auckland’s level 3 lockdown is a massive disappointment. Worse, it is
In a week dominated by enormous blunders by the government in their handling of COVID-19 and one where they inflicted lockdowns on the population, does anyone see anything missing from this week’s Herald cartoon roundup?” August 16 illustration Peter Bromhead Herald on Sunday August 10 illustration Guy Body
In a statement released yesterday, Mr Peters said the Government’s health response must come before politics. “Since Monday evening, August 10, we have said that our health response must come first and politics second. That remains our view as the case numbers rise each day,” Mr Peters said. Mr
