Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz 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
Some time back, The BFD reported on the extraordinary, interlinked programs of spying on its own citizens launched by the New Zealand state. As revealed by an OIA request, the the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s briefing, Strengthening New Zealand’s Resilience to Mis/Disinformation, and the initial
The ANZ Chief Economist is a scold, ticking us off in a tone-deaf article at Stuff for not saving for a rainy day. This is called rich-splaining, when a person who has never experienced poverty gives you patronising advice on how to get yourself out of poverty. There’
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Family First NZ is rejecting suggestions by National leader Christopher Luxon to review and likely liberalise Easter trading laws. “We reject any liberalisation of Easter trading laws and also Anzac and Christmas days because workers deserve this special annual break to spend time with their families. If anything, we should
Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher PART 11 of 18 As described in Part 9 of this article, the unprecedented announcement by the UK government that it would create huge sums of money ex-nihilo and spend
Prime Minister Chopkins sat in his office at his Prime Ministerial desk. On this desk sat a high tower of dictionaries which he had been working his way through for the last half hour. On the wall, unnoticed by the PM, sat a medium sized blowfly. Readers familiar with your
The latest trust in media survey results are out and, for the fourth straight year, trust in media has declined. The usual suspects, almost all state funded, are clutching at their necklaces and tut-tutting about the state of media all without even pausing to understand why it is happening.
Molly Kinglsey dailytelegraph.co.nz Molly Kingsley is a co-founder at UsForThem, the parent campaign group formed in May 2020 to advocate against school closures. They have since been joined by tens of thousands of parents, grandparents and professionals across the UK and beyond, advocating for children to be
A recommended listen: Strange, crazy and dumb: two insane years. I think: one thing that we all need to think about is having a really sensible understanding of why basically every country, every government, different cultures, different political systems, y’know communist China, democratic UK, whatever… they all just lost
Winston Peters Leader of NZ First Posie Parker had every right to be here. Our High Court ruled it so. She had the right to speak freely and to have the freedom to express her views. That’s the New Zealand I grew up in. That’s what our country
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com In 2022 the MoH undertook a study of the ‘long-term’ outcomes of people who had been diagnosed with myocarditis after receiving any dose of Pfizer vaccine. Participants had to be older than 12 years, had to have been diagnosed before
The latest political poll from the Taxpayers’ Union/Curia is out and it is not pleasant reading just five months out from the election. We are being forced to look at a choice between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich, or, as I like to put it, between Captain
Last week, the media claimed National’s candidate for Maungakiekie, Greg Fleming, had said civil unions were in line with polygamy and incest. When asked his thoughts, Christopher Luxon “sang the media tune … and rebuked Fleming”. And it’s not the first time that a National MP or candidate has
