Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We owe much to our ready access to affordable and reliable energy: it is closely correlated with increases in population, GDP per capita and life expectancy. But we have been putting all this at risk with a focus on sustainability which, while in itself is
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com There is now a pretty widely shared consensus that inflation is undesirable for a variety of economic and social reasons. And around the world it has been widely
Harry Palmer It’s a great puzzle, and I’m probably going to go to my grave not knowing how it happened. What’s got me intrigued is how, ever since the 1960s, so many people have become so unquestioning of those elected to run the country for them and
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It seems Spark and Vodafone (One NZ) haven’t seen the Go Woke, Go Broke memo. Misogynist Shaneel Lal, who incited violence at Albert Park against people who turned up to hear Posie Parker speak, took to Facebook’s new app Threads to call to keep “TERFs” off the platform.
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Colin Angus Senior Research Fellow in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group University of Sheffield The cost of living crisis has seen the prices of many goods and services rise sharply in the past 18 months, but food and drink prices have been particularly hard hit. Some food producers have responded
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