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Things That Make Me Go Hmm
Massey University Professor Paul Spoonley says the New Conservative members likely felt they were in a war around identity. “They tend to be deeply sceptical of a lot of mainstream institutions and at times you’ll see conspiracy theories coming through,” he says. “For example you will see online, that
Another Day, Another COVID Runner
Newshub reports on the latest covid escapee. A third person has escaped managed isolation. The man in his 50s escaped from the Distinction Hotel in Hamilton on Thursday. Shock, horror /sarc. On Friday afternoon Minister of Health Chris Hipkins confirmed the man climbed down a fire escape and cut through
It’s Better Not to Engage in the BLM Debate
Douglas Murray’s advice about responding to the BLM movement is not to play the racist game. He says you cannot win and gives the example of a UK discussion paper titled ‘Inequalities and Racial Discrimination’ produced by the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Mental Health Trust (BAME). The appropriate and
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Is Newshub Nation Reporting with Integrity?
Leighton Baker New Conservative Party leader. Journalism is known as the fourth estate as its role is to keep the Government honest. If Media is seeking honesty then Media itself must be honest. After reading yesterday’s article on the New Conservatives the question needs to be asked if Newshub
Sheriff Muller and Bonnie and Clyde
Information Satire This is a case for Hercule Poirot. It’s a matter of who said what and when did they say it. I may even be implicated. Apparently there has been whisky leaking from barrels outside Missie Ardern’s Saloon. I said I did not know if it was
Isolation Is Insanity
Can someone recommend somewhere that would be suitable for this Government to collectively self isolate? A place far enough away where they could reflect on the stupidity of their current COVID carry on. Is there any suitable accommodation on the Auckland Islands? Perhaps not such a good idea as the
The New Conservative (Party)
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A household leaflet for a new political party called “New Conservative” turned up in my letterbox. It’s leader, a Leighton Baker, would have done himself a favour dressed in a suit and tie, and a bigger one still had he used an editor. In
The Hidden Hand of Chinese Political Influence
Australia has had ASIO move in on Chinese linked MPs in the ALP. Here in New Zealand the National Party has a Chinese spy in its midst and is tainted with the stench of Chinese Communist Party connections and money, which is now subject to prosecutions by the Serious Fraud
New Conservatives Defend Western Culture as “Greatest in the World”, Warn NZ ‘Sliding toward Socialism’
Their voices are loud; as they decry “the very democracy, the very conscience, our families, our very children’s ideas, being taken away and replaced by a vicious ideology”. The words come not from the United States – but a member of New Zealand’s own conservative right-wing; New Conservative
1971: Tiwai Point
Rick Giles AHNZ The History of New Zealand through a Libertarian Anarchist lens. Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter is a Government programme of National 2.0. So is the Manapouri hydrodam powering it. The dam was built by low-paid, slack, alcoholic, itinerant workers from overseas (eg. Tim Shadbolt and his
Lack of Privacy
Nathan Smith Chief Editor nzinitiative.org.nz I don’t know why people are getting so worked up about private details being leaked to MPs. If the COVID-19 crisis taught us anything, it’s that privacy has no place in the “new normal.” The mantra of the internet is
Daniel Andrews: Jacinda Ardern’s Twin in Failure
Daniel Andrews is just under a decade older than Jacinda Ardern, but the two have much else in common. Both are Arts-degree socialists from religious families who’ve never in their adult lives held a job outside politics. More recently, both oversaw draconian responses to the Wuhan pandemic – and