Covid, vaccine, and border Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Government accused of being ‘too relaxed’ over new Covid strains Herald: Judith Collins on urging Govt to accelerate rollout of vaccine Jason Walls (Herald): Government being lobbied to accelerate the Covid vaccine rollout ‘before it’s too late’ Shannon Redstall (Newshub): Coronavirus: Judith
Nanaia Mahuta and the “Princess of the Pestilence”, Jacinda Ardern, were quick out of the blocks to condemn a few rowdies and malcontents filing into the Capitol Building and straying on the roped-off pathways. Of course, they’ve been utterly silent about the raid on the Capitol during the
Western democracy, on life support for quite some time, finally died this week when supporters of US President Donald Trump “stormed” the Capitol in Washington, DC. We know it is dead, not because of the actions of President Trump or his supporters, but because reaction against them has finally borne
US politics and NZ Chris Keall (Herald): NZ Privacy Commissioner critical of Facebook and Twitter’s decision to ban Trump Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): NZ privacy commissioner says social media bans on Trump ‘arbitrary and cynical’ RNZ: PM should not ‘tiptoe’ around Trump’s culpability – professor Fran O’Sullivan (Herald)
Ever since March 15 2019, the Police have been on a jihad against licensed firearms owners. They have also pushed for an arms register in the mistaken belief that criminals will start registering their firearms. They already maintain an arms register for prohibited firearms, pistols and collectors, yet it seems
Requiescat In Pace: 2020. Although many will be glad to see you gone, you should be remembered as the Remarkable Year of Dishonesty, Duplicity, Hypocrisy and The Madness of Crowds (Illustrated): Beginning the year badly, and deservedly, behind in the polls due to a peculiar, but entirely predictable, penchant for
ACT Party “Labour must stop seeing employers as the enemy and avoid doing further harm to the productive sector,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government was told its latest minimum wage hike will have a ‘disproportionately large’ negative impact on the number of jobs created over the coming year.
US politics and NZ Matthew Hooton (Herald): Capitol Riot confirms Donald Trump leaves office as worst President in history (paywalled) Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Kiwi Chris Liddell weighs up resigning as Trump’s deputy chief of staff Damian George (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern on US Capitol riot: Democracy ‘should never be
Richard Prebble’s Covid exposé “Richard Prebble: What the Government did not want you to know about its Covid response” was very revealing. It was surprising that an article on the Government’s response to the Covid crisis was actually printed by the NZ Herald. I applaud the NZ Herald
