Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Nearly three weeks ago, historian Niall Ferguson posted six questions that Chinese political leader Xi Jinping needs to answer about this coronavirus — not in any expectation of them being answered, but instead to highlight how far China still seems to be from enjoying the free
I have written in The BFD recently about the decline of western Anglosphere nations through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. And that how, through a collapse in confidence, and also in morality, we have meekly accepted the suspension in civil liberties deemed by governments to be ‘necessary’
Gerhard Sundborn covidplanb.co.nz Gerhard Sundborn is a Senior Lecturer Population and Pacific Health at the University of Auckland. With Covid-19 bearing down on New Zealand, and fears of an overloaded health system and a death toll numbering many tens of thousands, the Government moved swiftly to implement
Last October – just one month before the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan – the World Health Organisation issued advice to governments on “non-pharmaceutical interventions” in the event of a future influenza pandemic. Conspiracy mongers will have a field day with this, but it really does seem
Phil Goff and Auckland Council are trying to box in rate options as either 3.5% or 2.5% by instructing officials not to include a 0% (rates freeze) option in any of the consultation material and advertising. The Ratepayers’ Alliance have been in a battle with the Council over
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New Conservative Party Yesterday, the first day that Parliament was sitting after almost 5 weeks of a nationwide lockdown, the Arms Legislation Bill (commonly known as the 2nd tranche) was on the Parliamentary Order Paper as a Bill for consideration. This Bill contains a number of items that are highly
Frank Newman nzcpr.com If the government wants to get New Zealand working it should get rid of the Resource Management Act (RMA). Even one of its architects, Geoffrey Palmer, has said it’s broken. It is and has been for quite some time, which is why it’s so
Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com Since I wrote Corona fevers and the madness of models, criticising the lockdown in New Zealand, there have been many comments and some objections to the article. Some of these have been discussed in other forums but here I will try to respond to a
Bob Jones, in a recent article on The BFD, had this to say: It’s a sorry scene ahead of us and I say again, by election-time the Jacinda lustre will be replaced by despair and anger with the obvious electoral outcome. I agree wholeheartedly. The backlash has already
Questions to Ministers KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the Government’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Everywhere the war analogy is used re the fight against coronavirus. Probably within a year we’ll have a vaccine. But all about us will be economic devastation, record unemployment and despair. History says that will induce two political consequences. One, as is evidently already
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War Is Over Peace returns, sort of. The end of lockdown means a return to work for many, but not all, businesses and workers. It is also time to survey the ruins. The Government has belatedly realised how damaging the lockdown is and now seeks Alert Level Two as soon
