Claire Trevett’s article in the Weekend Herald provided an interesting headline. It read, ‘PM needs dusting of sweet news on stale cake’. The reality, which maybe Claire has yet to realise, is that the PM’s cake is not only stale but also decidedly sour. Many of her cakes,
Information Opinion Having control of the radio waves is a powerful way to massage the message. When I heard a confident and (clearly) arrogant Marcus Lush state he would not give up his evening radio show on Newstalk ZB if he won the Invercargill mayoralty, I was shocked. He is
Jacinda Ardern famously stated that if you were vaccinated and boosted, “You won’t get sick, and you won’t die.” She also said that Covid was a disease of the unvaccinated and the virus was literally hunting them down. But the latest figures from the Ministry of Health show
He referred to a July incident in Whangarei, in which he left by the back door of a venue to avoid about a dozen anti-mandate protesters and those opposing the closure of the Marsden Pt oil refinery blocked the way to his car, one bearing a large lamington cake
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. Being a public servant, such as a councillor in your local area, is an incredibly difficult job and is often underappreciated. But it gives you the ability to serve your people and possibly improve lives. If we didn’t
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Creating a new public holiday on a whim is causing chaos amongst businesses, our health system and schools, what’s worse, we’re behind the world again after waiting two weeks for Jacinda Ardern to get home from New York. This public holiday is estimated
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Wellingtonians are desperately unhappy with the politicians running their city, and a new poll out yesterday shows they’
Stephen Berry Voting papers have started to be issued in Auckland and across the country for the 2022 local body elections. Former Auckland Mayoral candidate and political commentator Stephen Berry is encouraging people to have as much information available as possible before casting their vote and recommends they use the
Two and a half years of full-scale global repression, a war waged on each and every person on the planet, changed us, some for the better and some for the worse. Your personal decision to embrace or reject global tyranny might have been a fait accompli, a gruelling journey
Growing up I was often fascinated by the role of whistleblowers and journalists holding institutions to account. What was fascinating was the idea of protection for those who leak private information. This focus on the privacy of the individual rather than the privacy of the information they are releasing to
You have to hand it to this Government, they are nothing if not shameless. National released the findings of the Uffindel Inquiry, only to be attacked by the Government, in the bloviating form of Grant Robertson who criticised the release as being “disrespectful” on the day of the Queen’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com “Time to sever the tie with these soap opera characters,” wrote Joe Bennett in Stuff of the British Royal Family. I totally agree. Along with Australia and Canada, plus a handful of tiny island states, every other Commonwealth state has already done this. Royalists ascribe
I have had enough of the news media and the NZ Government refusing to tell us the facts and nothing but the facts about actual, REAL, genuine, deaths from Covid-19. Never before have we as a population had to deal with this kind of deceptive nonsense. Have you ever
