On the TV1 News on Saturday, the leading story was – you guessed it – all about a ‘deadly’ new strain of COVID, originally named the Nu strain, but now named Omicron (an anagram of ‘moronic’, which seems totally appropriate). The presenter told us in breathless style how this is more contagious
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Last weekend Stuff offered a
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Poor old Jim Bolger has become more and more addled as time marches on. He’s become the Malcolm Fraser of New Zealand politics and farther left than even Jim Anderton. He has renounced capitalism and it seems his recipe for success for whoever becomes the leader of the National
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David Seymour ACT Leader Grant Robertson should be able to connect the Government’s floundering COVID response with money printing and rising costs of life and housing, but can’t or won’t. New Zealand had the second largest fiscal policy response in the OECD, before Delta hit. The Government
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Colin Parkinson Looking back to a time almost two years ago now, I did not expect to be writing this. I was probably one of the very few promoting a vaccine for a disease that many readers here possibly had not even heard of at the time. My mother-in-
Family First With the sudden departure of Judith Collins from the leadership of the National Party, the battle is now on for a new leader (and ultimately the alternative Prime Minister if there was a change of government). Below is a brief summary of the potential candidates for both the
I first got involved with politics at the tender age of fifteen. In the ensuing sixty years, I cannot recall such an incompetent hopeless bunch of losers as this lot. They have reached a level of incompetence that not only presents a danger to the country but also to themselves.
The world has agreed to ramp up climate action after the two-week UN climate summit in Glasgow ended in a joint compromise from nearly 200 countries. What were the most significant measures agreed in your view and is New Zealand doing enough? Information Opinion Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura
Grant Robertson says businesses that lose customers because they refuse to use vaccine passes shouldn’t qualify for financial help Newshub Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the fifth of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for
Pish Posh Politicians have always pushed the boundary between truth, half-truth and lies. In the good old days, they would at least blush and choke out a disingenuous apology. But lately, the lies from Jacinda and this Labour Government have become so frequent that if the mainstream media actually
