The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’
JL Increased spending equates to inflation – this is basic economics taught to school children. Our kids will also learn when our political overlords mismanage mum and dad’s money they too will feel it at the till. Yet this current crop of political miscreants has the gall to blame all
Information Opinion A quote from Winston Churchill applies to both Gaurav Sharma and Jacinda Ardern. The first part of the quote says – “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.” The second part says – “Courage is what it also takes to sit down and listen.” The first part
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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion On NewstalkZB weekday mornings, Mike Hosking hosts the breakfast show. This week he is explaining logical conclusions regarding mask compliance in the community and the associated government legislation and restrictions. He calls on results from government polls, and his
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Thornton Blackmore Amidst the controversies that seem to now be a part of everyday life, the revelations of wide-scale child abuse which have surfaced in recent years have been difficult for many to digest. Scandals implicating the rich and famous in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking syndicate have
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I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to watch the attack mockumentary ‘Fire and Fury’ released by Stuff. It was bad enough in the way they portrayed the individuals in it without then finding out that it had been funded by the taxpayers. Their deliberate omission of the
Barbara McKenzie Wellington Mayoral candidate stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) recently issued a defamatory press statement to the effect that they were ‘uninviting’ me from their mayoral debate, due to my ‘racist and transphobic views’, while also
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D. Brady How Creationism Won in NZ All it had to do was put on a grass skirt
As uncovered by The BFD, the New Zealand police — not Immigration NZ, apparently, as was earlier claimed — actively sought to have two journalists banned from entering the country. Their internal communications left no doubt that the reasons were entirely political, profiling the journalists as “far-right” (a purely subjective political
Information Opinion Mike Hosking was on a roll last week. With Mallard exiting the House en route to Ireland, he put in a call to Christopher Luxon’s office asking if he would recall Mallard from Ireland when he becomes PM. My immediate thought, with a recent softening in the
