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In news that’s sure to upset and outrage Jacinda Ardern’s legion of fawning admirers in the media, the Bad Orange Man has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, while the fairy princess is left to helplessly click her glass slippers from the sidelines. President Donald Trump was
The Silicon Valley oligarchs are going to war with the Morrison government. At issue is the government’s efforts to force the tech giants to pony up some of their mountains of gold for the content they’ve been scraping for free for years. While it’s true that the
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The natives really are getting restless in Melbourne. If “Dictator Dan” Andrews thought that sending in the goon squads to kick down doors, pile onto journalists and handcuff pregnant women in their jammies was going to win hearts and minds, it appears that he was sadly mistaken. The videos of
If there’s one thing you can say about the Long March left, they’re persistent. And, like the Maoists their strategy takes its name and inspiration from, dab hands at sneakery and treachery. The Maoists took persistent advantage of the naivete and openness of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists
When Jacinda Ardern slammed the panic button and plunged New Zealand into stage four restrictions, the results were a direct contrast to her constant yammering about “kindness” and “compassion”. The “Team of Five Million” quickly found that some of them were being left on the benches in no uncertain terms.
Jonathan Barrett Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Ability to pay is the basic principle of tax fairness: people in a similar financial position should pay similar amounts of tax; people who can afford to pay more tax than others ought to pay more tax. The first proposition is
It’s rather notable that the zealous defenders of brutal lockdowns so often resort to sanctimony in lieu of evidence. Which is understandable, really – because all the evidence is showing that lockdowns are destructive and useless. Cue pious sanctimony, stage left. “You can’t put a cost on human life!
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Since becoming Children’s Commissioner, Andrew Becroft’s strong left leanings have become increasingly apparent. In this interview he gets right into blaming Rogernomics and neoliberalism for child poverty. But this is the soundbite I heard: Becroft says the present Government has done more than
Election Audrey Young (Herald): Election battlegrounds – Political parties eye strategic seats (paywalled) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): An introduction to ‘The Outliers’: The political parties who aren’t in the daily headlines Tova O’Brien (Newshub): With two Government parties under threat of political obliteration, is it time to rethink MMP? Tim
How biased is Newshub? Pretty biased seems to be the answer if you look at the construction of their website. A vigilant reader noticed that Jacinda Ardern has her own tag on Newshub’s website. And if you click on the tag you get taken to a whole page of
President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Israel-UAE peace deal TRUMP ANNOUNCES PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL, UAE Tybring-Gjedde, in his nomination letter to the Nobel Committee, said the Trump administration has played
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