I have been saying for a few weeks now that I think there is no need for the continuation of this lockdown, or indeed even a lockdown on a lower rung. So let’s look at just what these levels are, or at least what they currently are, as I
Cam Slater in his latest podcast, toward the end of the interview with Chris Trotter, asked about Deborah Russell’s heartless comment that intimated that New Zealand small businesses, not surviving lockdown deserved to go under. Deborah refused to apologise, sticking to her theory that those businesses were the authors
Alwyn Poole It is astonishing how quickly key foundations of education and society can become twisted or subverted. A genuine proponent of education advocates important foundation: question everything, critique everything, suggest and evaluate counter scenarios (and other ‘experts’), ask who gains and who loses from a particular action, attack the
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With only 4 months to the election, it’s time to start collating the burning questions that our readers want New Zealand’s political parties to answer. At the last election, Hawkes Bay Today put readers’ selected questions to candidates at public meetings but some felt that a lot of
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Colmar Brunton survey showing a sizeable majority of support for the government’s totally unnecessary lockdown excesses, came as no surprise. But come election time with 25% unemployment and general despair and there will be a markedly different reaction. The fact is, right now,
Nobody could call Simon Bridges a great leader of the opposition. It is the worst position in politics, with him becoming leader straight after an election loss. No one wants to go there, but there he is. He is a smart man, but he doesn’t have great communication skills,
Our leaders should examine accumulated data to see what has actually happened, not what the models predicted. Look at empirical evidence and the fundamental principles of biology and then get the economy going again. Level 3 (or Level 4 with KFC as Judith Collins labelled it) has been generously dangled
Radio New Zealand reporter Jane Patterson has provided an interesting analysis of potential leaders for National. What is most interesting is who she hasn’t even mentioned. MPs spoken to by RNZ were both dismayed and alarmed by the tsunami of negative public reaction. That’s catapulted him into a
The four alert levels were introduced by the government to deal with the impending coronavirus crisis, which at the time worked. They are not a ‘thing’, just an invention which has outgrown its usefulness. Ardern’s daily media stand-ups, or to quote Andrea Vance’s ‘How Jacinda Ardern is
Yesterday 15:50 Mary Lambie was a guest on Tim Roxborogh’s show and decided it might be a good idea to not only promulgate a piece of fake news but to also suggest that it would be good if supporters of Donald Trump would all inject themselves with poison.
Anzac Day combines many of the elements of our shared national life which the left loathes. It celebrates the primacy of the nation-state and the nation’s sovereignty and independence maintained through the defence of its borders. It marks our closeness to our allies, with whom we are like-
