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Is Politics All Tip and No Iceberg?
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Is Politics All Tip and No Iceberg?

Alex Penk Independent Researcher and Writer commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room New Zealand politics has its fair share of immortal lines, like this one: “I can smell the uranium on your breath.” That’s David Lange, Prime Minister in 1985, debating our nuclear-free

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You Couldn’t Trust Them During COVID. Why Trust Them Now?

You Couldn’t Trust Them During COVID. Why Trust Them Now?

After three years of Covid-19 propaganda, it’s really no surprise to find people still wandering around claiming Jacinda saved us from Covid. They are Ardern’s zombie zealots, coached to wilfully ignore the science and cling to Ardern’s Covid rhetoric still thrust upon us on a daily

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It’s Time for Our Salamis

Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science newzealanddoc.substack.com Each day brings with it its measure of joy or travail. The noise of life hums along and practicalities absorb the attention of most of us, enough so that the profundity of alterations introduced by

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The Truth about RNZ’s Undercurrent Podcast

The Truth about RNZ’s Undercurrent Podcast

Mark Freeman In the run-up to this year’s general election, “experts” are predicting the possibility of a violent attack—even an assassination—on a politician. The warning comes in Radio New Zealand’s recently-released podcast series Undercurrent: Misinformation in Aotearoa, in which presenter Susie Ferguson claims political

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Hands off the GST

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I read with dismay this week that the Labour Party is contemplating removing GST from fresh fruit and vegetables. It will seem such a sensible policy to a great many people, and may therefore attract a lot of votes. As somebody who wants rid of this

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Oh, So You Want Evidence?
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Oh, So You Want Evidence?

The Greens love to lecture us about evidence-based policy, but strangely they never seem to produce any such evidence when it comes to their own policies. Chloe Swarbrick has her knickers in a bunch over Labour’s weak policy response to ram raiders. Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has hit

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BFD August 2023 Political Poll
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BFD August 2023 Political Poll

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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It Is a Slippery Slope

Gary Judd Kc garyjuddkc.substack.com Having been involved with the political left in my youth and early adulthood, I had the same thoughts as Thomas More [“It continues to amaze me that ideals we used to think of as espoused by the political left have been abandoned by so-

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We Must Wake up to Reality

Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Today’s Labour Party boasts their credentials by raising beneficiary incomes. It’s so important to them, that a requirement to report regularly on benefit incomes was instigated on advice from the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (headed by Cindy Kiro, who was duly rewarded). Here is

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Six Hours to Create the Spin

Six Hours to Create the Spin

It’s hard to believe, I know. But the editorial in [yesterday’s] issue of the Sunday Star-Times is a worthy read. It’s the Kiri-thing again, but from a different angle. It points out the hypocrisy of complaining about ‘special treatment’ of ‘wahine Maori’ transgressions, pointing to

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The Shabby Greens
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The Shabby Greens

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve followed our politics since the 1949 election and say without hesitation that the current Green Party mob is the shabbiest lot of the post-war period with one, never to be matched, exception. Namely the abominable Jami-Lee Ross whose catastrophic political career ended

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Time to Stare Down the Political Pipers

Time to Stare Down the Political Pipers

Over the weekend I was reading an article from Reclaim the Net about the revelations that the Biden White House worked hand in glove with Facebook to demonise and destroy what they described as the “Disinformation Dozen”. It was fascinating: Calling somebody a member of the “Disinformation Dozen” – there’s

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