If you want to see a change of government in October, be sure you don’t have the wool firmly pulled over your eyes and do not pin your hopes on ‘magical thinking’ (the belief that thinking about something, or wanting it to happen, can make it happen). The loss
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Below, another brilliant article by historian and former Labour Cabinet Minister, Michael Bassett. It should be compulsory reading for all New Zealanders. MICHAEL BASSETT: WHO IS A MAORI? As cabinet ministers traipse around the country, feverishly talking up Budget largesse in the hope it will help
Barry Soper’s column yesterday wondered whether Michael Wood was “stinking rich or dishonest”. There is a good chance that he is the second: dishonest. After all he is a politician and they are almost always dishonest. But he sure as hell isn’t stinking rich, because he’s sacrificed
It is easier to disagree with an ally than upset a communist dictator. New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, ahead of his official trip to China at end of this month, said on Thursday he did not agree with US President Joe Biden’s remark that Chinese leader Xi Jinping
hobsonspledge.nz The Government not only cannot define racism, it would seem, it cannot recognise racism when it hits it in the face. As Health Minister Ayesha Verrall rallies to defend the indefensible, it is important to note that this unethical policy has not appeared out of the blue. It
If apartheid wasn’t here before it’s definitely here now. First, let’s elucidate on the real meaning of the word apartheid. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Languages it means historically (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Apartheid is
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984–1990 governments. bassettbrashandhide.com How can it be that everything this Labour government touches crumbles? Chris Hipkins and his team score zero
DemocracyNZ arguably just lost its best people with the resignation of five candidates: Dr Matt Shelton, Kirsten Murfitt, Lee Smith and Bill Dyet, after the board fired Waikato farmer Steve Cranston, who was also the party’s spokesman on climate change. Cranston says terribly sensible things like this: The National
The minister who described the protest at Parliament in Wellington as “a river of filth” was yesterday found up Shit Creek without a paddle. The Prime Minister has had to effectively sack Michael Wood for being a dishonest, lying little weasel. Chris Hipkins let him resign rather than be formally
Michael Wood is Face of The Day after being effectively sacked for lying to the Prime Minister and failing to disclosed other conflicts of interest. Michael Wood has quit as a Cabinet minister after it emerged he had more shareholding interests in areas that clashed with his portfolios. Prime Minister
We all know the New Zealand media have been bought and paid for by the Labour government with its so-called “Public Interest” Journalism Fund, but, jeez, do they have to make it so obvious? Hardly a day goes by that Kiwis aren’t inundated with the most ludicrous beat
Some of the most riveting passages in William L Shirer’s classic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, are his eye-witness accounts of key events. One of the most extraordinary is his on-the-scene account of the Anschluss as it played out on the streets
Most of us are pretty fed up with the status quo government that has given us: * Inflation and recession after Ardern’s draconian Covid policies; * Hipkins’s appalling record of having to stand down a minister every eight weeks for unethical behaviour; * Increasing ram raids and crime; * Judges soft on
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First Last year the Australian-owned banks operating in New Zealand had profits of $7.15 billion, this year it will be on track to be even more excessive because of the interest rates going up. An announcement from Labour to ‘ask the Commerce
