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Jayanta Bhattacharya Martin Kulldorff brownstone.org Jay Bhattacharya, Senior Scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli
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Simon Bridges is announcing he is retiring from politics and will leave Parliament in the coming weeks. Mr Bridges is currently the MP for Tauranga and National’s Finance spokesperson. “It’s been a privilege to be MP for Tauranga since 2008, a senior Minister and Leader of the Opposition.
Justin Trudeau senses a slippage in democracy towards authoritarianism. “…Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders – countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media turning people against the values and the principles of democracies that are so strong,” he said. skynews.com.au/world-news/global-
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Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura As we get used to living with widespread Covid, microbiologiest Siouxsie Wiles is calling for a new way to track how much of the virus is in the community and what variants. She says in the UK they regularly test a representative sample of people,
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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 John Black. The Two Winstons Like a bear that couldn’t stand his hibernation a moment longer, Winston Peters
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura I was shocked by the Ngai Tahu representative Liz Brown’s evidence to the Maori Affairs Select Committee hearing on the Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill, last week. During her evidence, she stated that Ngai Tahu’s ultimate goal was co-governance (ECAN)
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A close friend of mine was most unwell last week. “Ah ha,” she thought, “I’ve got Covid.” Several days of negative RATs later she was still sure she had Covid, and that the results were incorrect. She didn’t trust the RATs. She did everything she has been told
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl du Fresne is a freelance journalist and blogger living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. He grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still considers it his turangawaewae, although He can walk the length of Ruataniwha St these days and
