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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve written scathingly before about individuals and companies who make substantial charitable donations then pathetically call the media to brag about it. In doing so they plainly have a self-serving motive, be it image promotion, the pursuit of a knighthood, or such-like.
As I’ve written many times, mass immigration is an unwanted Ponzi scam that the elite are determined to foist on the rest of us, no matter how loudly we object. The same goes for so-called “refugees”, most of whom are really economic migrants determined to jump the queue
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Prime Minister Chris ‘Chippy’ Hipkins has been teasing for months his focus on meat pies and pastries for the upcoming election. The media coverage on the issue has been undeniable. In March it was reported that the Real Meat Pies bakery in Lower Hutt was still
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Back in WWI, anti-German hysteria reached fever-pitch. Streets and suburbs were re-named. Even the Royal Family changed their names: “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha” became “Windsor”, and “Battenburg” became “Mountbatten”. Not even food escaped the madness: sauerkraut was, however temporarily, re-dubbed “liberty lettuce” in the US. Even during
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Two articles in the Weekend Herald caught my attention. One was written by Mike Munro, a former chief of staff for Jacinda Ardern and press secretary for Helen Clark. The other was by Bruce Cotterill, a company director and advisor to business leaders. The articles unsurprisingly, were Chalk and Cheese.
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New Zealanders are questioning what is going on. Frustration is building and more are asking the question, “What has happened to New Zealand?” It is so bad some say the country is close to being a failed state! There are big questions and big concerns. A group from the BFD,
If the Maori Party were kingmaker, would the result be legitimate? Revelations early in May 2023 in the NZ Herald that “the social services charity Waipareira Trust had agreed with Charities Services to cease making political donations and take steps to claw back $385,000 of interest-free loans made
Liam Hehir commonroomnz.com Liam Hehir is a lawyer and political commentator. He publishes his opinion pieces on The Blue Review on Patreon, is a guest writer for The Spinoff, and regularly appears as a panellist on Q&A with Jack Tame. This article was previously published at The
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