As I predicted last week Jacinda Ardern has had a cabinet reshuffle, largely forced on her by Kris Faafoi abandoning ship for ‘family reasons’, and Trevor Mallard becoming an albatross around her neck and needing a sinecure diplomatic position created for him in order to ease his pathetic angry arse
Mike is hated by the Wellington Bureaucracy for highlighting their incompetence and making them look like the callous wankers they are. Mike is offering counselling services at a fraction of the price that the Wellington Bureaucracy offers and because he’s done such an excellent job of exposing their vested
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson The Prime Minister has today confirmed the Government’s divisive and dangerous hate speech laws are still on their agenda. Hate speech laws are divisive and dangerous, turning debate into a popularity contest where the majority can silence unpopular views using the power of
In its first few weeks of government Albanese’s Labor have managed to comprehensively bollix nearly everything. Nearly. There’s been one glaring and pleasingly surprising exception: so far – so far – Labor have passed their first China test somewhat impressively. The surprise is even bigger, given that Albanese appointed notorious
If the last two years have proved anything, it’s that the epithet “conspiracy theory” is almost completely redundant. As the saying goes, they’re not so much conspiracy theories as spoiler alerts. Covid came from a Wuhan lab? Crackpot conspiracy theory… until it wasn’t. Vaccines don’t prevent
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government’s command and control over our lives have gone on long enough and it’s time for Jacinda to give up her vice-like grip and let us get on with our lives. Kiwis are being denied entry into their own country because
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Warning Long read: 1976 words The New Zealand First donations scandal trial began in the High Court this week. And it’s already showing why
Well it has finally happened… It took 46 years and, despite all the warnings: For the law is now the lawless ’n the flaw is now the flawless ’n the crime is now accepted ’n the criminal respected ’n now evil gets elected ’n now sinful get selected Welcome to
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
In the Weekend Herald there was extensive coverage relating to revitalising the CBD, particularly Queen Street. I should say I rarely venture into Queen Street for two reasons: I have no need to and, perhaps more importantly, I have no desire to. This is a far cry from when I
So, New Zealand is getting its very own Ministry of Truth, complete with the grandly Orwellian title of “National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism”. It’s also known by the even-more-incomprehensible “He Whenua Taurikura”, which translates to the splendidly Maoist “a peaceful land”
Much and all as I think Christopher Luxon stuffed up some of his policy announcement on gangs, a gang member crying a river of tears about their human rights being breached makes me laugh. What about the human rights of their victims? A Mongrel Mob leader says poverty is at
According to Jacinda Ardern, despite a massive increase in armed robberies and gun violence, shopkeepers shouldn’t arm themselves. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said arming business owners is not the answer to the recent spate of crimes the small island nation is currently experiencing, including ram raids by
