There’s an old idiom about putting foxes in charge of the hen-house: trusting someone who should not be trusted to oversee a situation. You wouldn’t appoint a bank robber to guard a bank, for instance. And you certainly wouldn’t appoint someone with a history of supporting
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Back when I were a young’un, there was a Melbourne newspaper of some notoriety, Truth. Not unlike it’s late NZ cousin, Truth specialised in salacious sensationalism that would make a Street of Shame hack blush. In its heyday in the 50s and 60s Truth also ran a good
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Mike Munro in the Weekend Herald illustrated the political thinking of the left beautifully. It is both simplistic and dangerous. He was writing about Three Waters and the problem the government has in articulating its message. His view is that there is a simple fix to this thorny little issue.
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Peter J Morgan BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching, Hon. CEO & Chair, Environomics (NZ) Trust (PJM.forensic.eng@gmail.com) In the mid-1980s, groups of climate scientists began developing computer climate models of the atmosphere. These models are now known to not properly model key climate parameters. One fundamental error
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I’m not sure whether to be amused, depressed or angry at the reaction to the article by Richard Dawkins in The Spectator recently. Richard Dawkins wrote the piece after his visit to New Zealand in late February. I heard him speak in Auckland and he
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When Rob Campbell was sacked for his intemperate comments on LinkedIn, I said that it would set a precedent and that the actions of the ministers involved would likely see other scalps claimed. Steve Maharey is in hot water over similar comments attacking the National Party in political columns. Health
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Willie Jackson is having a cry about Mike Hosking objecting to race-based flood funds after Cyclone Gabrielle. In a scathing Facebook post, the Maori Development Minister unleashed on Hosking for what he called an “exceptionally insulting diatribe” about the Government’s $15 million relief package to support Maori communities
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