So yesterday I went to my 3 monthly doctors checkup, (my doctor is a happy Muslim chappy and we quite often stray into politics and other non medical matters, he was saying he has just sold 3 out of 4 of his rental houses, due to the government’s regulations
Jacinda Ardern is leading a government that is now so far out of touch with public sentiment that, as the polls are starting to show, they have all but burnt their bridges. Their ministers seem ever more incompetent to the point where they look like they have no understanding of
Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The hate-speech debate is quickly becoming an arena where reputations go to die. Kris Faafoi, the
Ashley Bloomfield has been caught telling fibs to the Health Select Committee. Like all good little civil servants he has ‘fessed up, yet again, to misleading Members of Parliament: Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has apologised to Parliament’s health select committee for providing them incorrect information. On
TV3’s pregnant Samantha Hayes was admitted to hospital last month for a “scary few days spent in hospital fighting a mystery infection, facing worries her baby might be arriving two months early”. Hayes and her unborn baby recovered from a fever thought to be caused by an unknown virus,
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Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com I received an email the other day from a friend, a retired journalist and self-described bleeding-heart lefty (most journalists lean to the left, though the good ones don’t let it influence their work), who complained that political correctness was sucking all
You know something’s up when the media obsess over the government’s obsession with the word ‘Aotearoa’. Judith and her (once invisible) MP, Kaikoura’s Stuart Smith caused a stir by cleverly questioning the use of the word ‘Aotearoa’ in government documents and the media and demanding a referendum.
Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. The elites in the ancient Roman empire valued the colour purple, on account of the rarity (and price) of the vivid purple dye.
Jacinda Ardern has made much of the support of local police in the Hawkes Bay for her personal approval of $2.75 million to a Mongrel Mob affiliated organisation run by 47 year Mob veteran Harry Tam. She repeats the line often, especially in Parliament, that local police were in
ACT Party Parliament was back this week and there was a lot to cover after a three-week break. Damien Smith had the luck of the Irish with his Member’s Bill drawn from the Ballot. The latest Poll saw ACT continue to soar and Labour back-pedalled on its
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader The Government needs to answer why Google billionaire Larry Page was able to get residency so quickly when skilled workers are being turned away. Media are reporting that Page was given residency under the ‘Investor Plus’ category after he came into New Zealand with
All councils should urgently hold a binding referendum of the residents and ratepayers they were elected to represent, to ask whether they want their assets transferred to central government without adequate compensation so that control of water can be passed to iwi.
Whether you sit on the left or right you need to stand up for free speech. When you have those on both the ‘liberal left’ and the ‘conservative right’ agreeing on an issue you know it is something we should ALL fight for. www.savefreespeech.co.nz Sign the petition
