Cranmer cranmer.substack.com Cranmer is a lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. He divides his time between the UK and NZ. This Substack explores issues facing NZ at present under his nom de plume, Cranmer. Information Opinion On Friday, Local
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. As an opposition MP I read government documents, reports and correspondence almost every day. I understand the need for Kiwis to be able to easily digest information that they receive from government departments, but frankly we should not have
Last week I wrote about the close ties between the James Bond villain-esque World Economic Forum boss Klaus Schwab and his acolyte and Young Leaders graduate Jacinda Ardern. Now, guess who has turned up in Phnom Penh at the ASEAN summit? Michael Laws and Sean Plunket, both of whom
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In a 5am spot yesterday, Stuff published this opinion piece. It’s an interesting summation. Last week the Prime Minister decried the level of bank profits and asked, “in the current environment, does it speak to a level of social licence?” She then continued in a nice bit of Maoist
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Oh no! It looks like poor Kate Hannah is now having to protect herself from knitting and handicrafts mums and white girls with braided hair! Those who study disinformation and online extremism are themselves increasingly the targets of harassment, abuse and threatening behaviour. The latest example came this week when
Patrick Barron mises.org Patrick Barron is a private consultant to the banking industry. He has taught an introductory course in Austrian economics for several years at the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin for over 25 years
Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused
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Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura World leaders are meeting at the latest UN climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. These meetings are a gathering of the great and the good in the climate change world. Some will fly to Egypt in their private jets to lecture us all
voicesforfreedom.co.nz In 1633 Galileo was convicted of suspected heresy for providing support to the Copernican theory that the Earth moved around the Sun, a position which contradicted the teachings of the then ‘pulpit of truth’, the Catholic Church. In the centuries that followed, the Catholic Church attempted to
