Have you ever heard of Newsguard? Nah? Neither had we until we received an email from Amina McCauley, an intern at Newsguard, demanding we comply with their demands. They wanted answers and they wanted them now! Who is Newsguard? Well, it seems they are the new censors on the block,
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Having a late read of the July 2nd Sunday Star Times, I came across an article written by a young lady by the name of Gabrielle McCullough. I’ll refrain from calling her a journalist in the true sense of the word as reflective of the so-called profession she
Some Democracy NZ supporters have scattered. If they manage to get Winston Peters back into Parliament, perhaps there could be a real shake up. National Party leader Christopher Luxon opens his party’s conference at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, on Saturday, 24 June 2023. […] From the onset of
Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer is a lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. He divides his time between the UK and NZ. He writes on Substack exploring issues facing NZ under his nom du plume, Cranmer. commonroomnz.com New Zealand’s parliamentary
You may remember during the height of the protest at Parliament in February 2022, a video was circulating of a Police car that ended up wrecked on the bollards at Parliament. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure: The folks at Mana News Live captured that video. Now there
Police Minister Ginny Andersen is back to gaslighting us again. Police Minister Ginny Andersen does “not accept” the Government’s record on crime is a “social and moral failure”. It comes after a pair of hammer-wielding offenders stormed a dairy in Mt Roskill on Wednesday afternoon, injuring two people.
hobsonspledge.nz Recently, the Minister of Local Government, Kieran McAnulty, disregarded democracy as irrelevant in New Zealand. He commented on the undemocratic Three Waters reforms, stating that they “wouldn’t stand up to a purely academic democratic framework, but that’s not how we work”. Further highlighting this Government’s
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We owe much to our ready access to affordable and reliable energy: it is closely correlated with increases in population, GDP per capita and life expectancy. But we have been putting all this at risk with a focus on sustainability which, while in itself is
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com There is now a pretty widely shared consensus that inflation is undesirable for a variety of economic and social reasons. And around the world it has been widely
Harry Palmer It’s a great puzzle, and I’m probably going to go to my grave not knowing how it happened. What’s got me intrigued is how, ever since the 1960s, so many people have become so unquestioning of those elected to run the country for them and
It seems Spark and Vodafone (One NZ) haven’t seen the Go Woke, Go Broke memo. Misogynist Shaneel Lal, who incited violence at Albert Park against people who turned up to hear Posie Parker speak, took to Facebook’s new app Threads to call to keep “TERFs” off the platform.
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A friend of mine, a famous in his field Berkeley Professor wrote the following in a recent letter to me. “Dear Bob, Re “Indigenous People”, I took my son to the Bay Area Children’s Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday. A good show but below the
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