Nobody tell Immigration New Zealand or the NZ Herald, but yours truly is returning to your shores some time next year. After all, we don’t want them digging up those old parking fines. Anyway, it’s been a few years since I visited your fair land — years in which
On the day I started high school I was plonked in a desk beside a person who has turned out to be my closest lifelong friend. We hit it off immediately: email twice a day, speak on the telephone several times per week, and they pop down here once a
We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us
We all know the extent to which Jacinda Ardern spins everything. She spins so much that I’m surprised she doesn’t get dizzy. For someone who once famously claimed that she had never told a lie in politics… well, let’s just say that she has certainly made up
Bryce Edwards The Democracy Project Disclosure: Bryce Edwards is the director of the Democracy Project, which is the recipient of Victoria University of Wellington research funding, which comes from Grant and Marilyn Nelson’s Gama Foundation. The taxpayer is short of billions of dollars that were overpaid to businesses during
Jacinda Ardern has been caught, yet again, telling lies. She’s now constantly telling us lies, sweet little lies. There is no other way to describe it other than lying. How else can this not be lies? Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attended a Labour Party caucus meeting where a last-
I do not believe the Nats have a clue where they sit in the political scene. They are not worth considering in my view even as opposition. The Labour lite label still describes the National Party, as they seem hell-bent on becoming a second Labour government embracing Labour’s
The Law Society has labelled the entrenchment clause in the Three Waters legislation “constitutionally objectionable” and introduced in a way that is “undemocratic”. Newshub has obtained a letter sent to Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta from the President of the Law Society on Thursday raising “serious concerns” about the provision
Guy Hatchard Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager at Genetic
Brian Tamaki A big resounding “Good on You” to the parents of baby Will and supporters for their courageous stand to not only refuse a vaccinated blood transfusion but to also withstand an unbelievable threat from the Nanny State to take the parents’ child into state guardianship! I see this
I know we are desperate for more funding for mental health services and the latest health concern involving Covid-19 adds more fuel to that fire. Apparently, doctors have to listen to the mad ramblings of patients complaining of racing hearts, breathlessness or lightheadedness following Covid vaccination. It’s a
Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Lindsay Mitchell blogs here An ODT opinion piece recently parodied the rapid adoption of Maori names for government departments. It drew attention to the renaming of the Earthquake Commission as Toka Tu Ake EQC which apparently “reflects the whakapapa of our nation.” The name-change decision
It’s been a common joke, these last few years, to remind the left that 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. But if New Zealanders are looking for a novel that really sounds a warning for their country, they’d be better off looking at Animal Farm. It’
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org This New Zealand story of a thoughtful and loving family up against the cold, hard machinery of state health control is nothing short of infuriating to those who still have a pulse, let alone a semblance of spleen. I can only imagine the distress that the
I was reading an article by Steven Joyce at the NZ Herald, that was headlined “Hopelessly marooned on a road to nowhere“. I immediately started humming the Talking Heads song Road to Nowhere. Joyce’s article begins with these two paragraphs: The die is looking increasingly cast for this Government.
