A Way Forward
Don is reluctant to “kill what we have built up over the last few years” and has suggested that we continue the blog under the title of Brash & Mitchell.
NZ Politics
The Sacred Grove, a Fallen Tree and a $560,000 Question
Auckland ratepayers are now more than half a million dollars in, residents are six figures out of pocket, and there is still no clear public explanation of how success will be measured – or when spending will finally stop.
Luxon Bins His Own Reports: The Manager Who Stopped Managing
Our country does not need another middle manager with a PowerPoint. It needs a leader who can fight the real battles. Luxon just proved he is not that man.
Covid-19 Lessons Learned Report Any Day Now
For many featured in The Tribute, this report represents a final hope for official acknowledgement and the restoration of patient rights under the NZ Bill of Rights.
Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, Smaller, Safer
I went to the Labour Party State of the Nation.
The Future of the Māori Seats
This is an issue National can no longer ignore. It needs to get off the fence and explicitly state whether or not it will support a referendum on the Māori seats.
Luxon Does Find Merit in Treaty Principles
PM echoing Seymour’s views flies under the radar.
Parliament Joins the Virtue Signalling Retreat From X and Abandons Kiwis Who Use It
The liberal elite who control our institutions, the old media and the progressive parties are busy virtue signalling by walking away from X. In the process they walk away from hundreds of thousands of ordinary Kiwis who are right there on the platform.
Face of the Day
On Monday, Hipkins promised a different Labour should they be elected in November, but he was offering up no new policy for now.
The Spirit of Lysenko Dominates
Though Covid injections have resulted in the deaths of millions, we will never know how many. Deaths due to Lysenkoism are uncertain, too, but in both, millions of lives were sacrificed by suppression of science, enforced in the pursuit of power.
The Excuse Doesn’t Survive a Simple Test
If there’s a broader reason for quitting the platform, fine, say it. But don’t sell the public a justification that falls over the moment someone tests it.
‘Trauma’ Can Not Excuse This
A critical look at the Auckland teacher grooming case of Tamlyn May – and a practical guide for parents to spot grooming and protect their children.
It Is All About Control
The motivations to stop using X – be it media or now the Clerk of New Zealand’s parliament – are couched in moral terms by opponents, but it’s all really about control, curation, and censorship.