Council Continues to NZ Women
The Midwifery Council continues to ignore biology and insult mothers.
NZ Politics
A Meeting to End a War Started One
At least of words. I will try and give some balance to this article. Not the easiest of tasks but here goes.
You Cannot Stop People From Asking Questions
What Dame Anne is engaging in is what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls ‘bullshit’. This is where intellectuals and policy makers, who have no good answers to valid questions from regular people, essentially resort to using jargon to sidestep the matter.
Why Does Porirua Honour a Māori Tyrant?
Porirua’s leaders must ask themselves if their community really wants to immortalise a man who traded in human lives?
Mark Carney Becomes PM of Canada
My former economics MPhil and DPhil classmate for many hard years.
News Briefing: 12 March 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, FAST-TRACK Laura Walters (Newsroom): Staying up late for Luxon’s sell-a-thon, hawking NZ to the world John Tookey (The Conversation): Hey big spenders: what foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit Brent Edwards (NBR): Fast-track
The Importance of Knowing Your Enemy
Those who fail to learn the lessons that history provides us are doomed to repeat the failures of the past in the here and now.
This Racism Has Got Out of Hand
It is a mix of racism and wokeness that is at the heart of the problem.
Returning Hipkins as PM Is Unthinkable
The man waged war on Auckland, turned us into prisoners, caused stagnation and will tax your family home.
It Is a Public Service Defence Strategy
Either you get a reconstituted service which is stripped back to its necessary bones without the bureaucratic bloat, or you do away altogether with any department that can’t actually prove its worth. Brutal but necessary.
What Luxon’s Poll Numbers Mean for National MPs
Even before National loses more popularity due to Luxon being unlikable, inept and generally unable to articulate what he stands for, five National MPs are going to lose their seats.
News Briefing: 11 March 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, POLLING, PUBLIC SERVICE Jenna Lynch (Stuff): The PM needs his political radar to flick on - urgently Richard Harman (Politik): The coalition gets a wakeup call (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): A critical week or two for the PM (paywalled) Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Bad
Luxon’s Time Is Now Limited
The latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll has more bad news for Christopher Luxon and National.
Face of the Day
At today’s post-Cabinet press conference, Luxon said it was important Bayly had some time to clear his head after resigning.