Many people ask me why it is that I avoid investment or doing business (if it can possibly be avoided) in New Zealand altogether; today I shall give you some hilarious, classic examples of why that is. Don’t choke from laughing too much. Although, rather amusingly, whenever I answer
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. There’s huge public concern about the potential for the wealthy to translate their economic power into political
One of the amusing things about our parliamentarians is their elemental self importance. Most MPs have a strange belief constituents are taking much notice of what they do and consequently their day-to-day actions matter, when, generally speaking, they do not. I shall illustrate what I mean by comparing
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On Tuesday, Voices for Freedom local groups around the country supported Nurses for Freedom and other healthcare workers protesting against the unjustified vaccine mandates that are still in force. Our hospitals are in a crisis. We have qualified and experienced healthcare providers ready to work, yet the government insists on
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Jack thecommoner.substack.com Let us not shy away from the brutal truth: Men built western civilisation. Not ‘cis’ men or ‘trans men’, but simply, men. Though the age of the Ancients and Enlightenment may well be long behind us — the Glory of Rome itself founded 2,775 years ago
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The decline of New Zealand’s government and civic institutions, to the extent that they are increasingly unable to deliver even basic services, has some observers wondering, Is New Zealand in danger of becoming a failed state? Not in the sense of violent, Somali-style anarchy, but basic collapse of
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As I’ve been reporting, the legacy media outside NZ are slowly waking up to the fact that all is not well in Jacinda Ardern’s Magic Kingdom. Unburdened by the Faustian pact that the local media have made with the Ardern government, under the guise of the “Public Interest”
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