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
Dear Editor, Hi, my name is Benjamin and I am twelve years old. I am writing this letter to say that, unlike my peers, I’m excited about climate change. Why? Well, I’ve always wanted to live on a farm and I also want to visit Antarctica. So I’
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Cabinet minister Kris Faafoi surprised when he announced earlier this year that he was pulling stumps on politics after 12 years. Then 3 months later he announced he would form his own consultancy firm. The pompous reaction from journalists, editorial writers and opposition politicians was
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Sunday’s announcement by Justice Minister Kiri Allan about forthcoming legislation on hate speech has sparked concerns that the country is headed for a second round of culture wars over free speech. As one journalist states today, Allan is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Late last century it became evident worldwide that whenever economists agreed on a future economic forecast, invariably the opposite occurred. To the best of my knowledge, I was the first to point this out in my newspaper columns at the time. In my comic novel
Let us go back to the boring subject of tax… except that it is not boring if you have to pay it, and it is anything but boring if you have to pay too much of it. The Greens are out of their box again, determined to tax anyone that
Richard Prebble bassettbrashandhide.com The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. National used to claim
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It looks like there will be an electoral petition in the Albert-Eden-Puketapapa council ward after some voting shenanigans have come to light. It seems that we may very well have a case of ballot stuffing in Auckland: A former Auckland board member has claimed he has evidence of
The latest economic data have been released and it is not good news. There is basically full employment, incomes are soaring, interest rates are about to skyrocket, and inflation is out of control; the New Zealand economy has many difficult years ahead. All of this was preventable, and there is
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Members of the anti-vaccination group turned up in large numbers to last month’s Groundswell-organised protest against the government’s proposal for a farm-level emissions pricing scheme. Farmer protest group Groundswell is distancing itself from the Voices For Freedom movement. Read more here. Discuss it on The
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