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Postcard from Canada: 30 May
Geoffrey It’s not a great time to be a conservative in Canada. Or even a Conservative (a federal conservative anyway, conservative parties hold power in seven of the ten provinces). But federally we’re outgunned. After the 2019 federal election, the scandal-plagued, incompetent, leftist Liberal government of Prime
Oral Questions – 2 June 2020
Questions to Ministers TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Will she accept my offer to work with the Government to implement National’s JobStart policy as soon as possible? MARAMA DAVIDSON to the Minister for the Environment: How will new standards for freshwater, announced last Thursday, help create healthy waterways
A Guide for Wannabe Lefties
With all the online learning being undertaken during lockdown, what better time to add another guide to self-improvement? Becoming a leftie is actually fairly easy and the skills can be picked up quite quickly. Regular daily practice will hone them to a fine degree so that, in no time
Utter Nonsense in a Medical Journal
The once-esteemed Lancet has long taken a leftward-bent trajectory and that’s why, call me cynical if you like, before reading any editorial content published by the outfit I recommend a grain of salt at the ready. In the course of the last week-and-a-bit, that
Deliver Us from Evil
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com I’m delighted to see this thoroughly well-deserved tribute to Lady Olivia here. I’m sure she won’t mind if I observe that her excellent comments to Bro Hubbard the Woke seem to stem from a private conversation she and I had in which
No Rules for Rent a Mob
Monday’s protest marches run by rent a mob have achieved nothing other than to make the Prime Minister look like a complete fool. The first politician to point this out was none other than David Seymour, this country’s number one Opposition MP. He correctly pointed out that the
Do NZ Lives Matter?
Parris Goebel culturally appropriated another country and people’s cause yesterday and in doing so gave the big middle finger to Jacinda Ardern and her “team of 5 Million.” How yesterday’s protest was handled revealed how real the threat against New Zealand lives from COVID-19 really is. The
Nothing but “Barney Castle” in Response to Investigation of Cummings
Durham Police have confirmed that Dominic Cummings’s visit to Barnard Castle was a breach and that the original journey to Durham was compliant. Interestingly, other police districts have said that they would have told him to turn round and go back home. What is clear is that the regulations
Surrender Your Civil Rights? There’s an App for That
Doug Firby troymedia.com Veteran political commentator Doug Firby is president of Troy Media Digital Solutions and publisher of Troy Media. Sometimes they’re right if you think about something like pooling our tax dollars to build roads we can all use or building a health-care system accessible to
Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya, Tourism New Zealand?
Press Release: ACT Party “Advertising by Tourism South Australia on New Zealand television shows the gulf in proactiveness between New Zealand and Australia when it comes to getting the economy restarted,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “While Tourism New Zealand cries ‘do something, New Zealand,’ and says it is
Today’s Protesters Must Play by Level 2 Rules
Press Release: ACT Party “While the Government continues to restrict the size of social gatherings to 100, today’s protesters must play by same rules as the rest of us,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT believes New Zealand should be at Level 1 now, restrictions on the size of
The World Is on Fire
Owen Jennings I am trying hard not to become a conspiracy theorist. I have learned how the climate change issue is exaggerated and dramatised without sound scientific foundation and is now driving hugely detrimental policy changes. I am struggling against a feeling that there must surely be some other agenda
Time to Base Decision Making on Real-World Data
David Theobald Four weeks more. Four weeks? Surely now the government has moved from parallel universe territory into extracting the Michael. Four weeks – why not four months, four years or forever? If they are to dispel any suspicions (convictions) that the stage-managing of the country is based on politics
Hey Kelvin, it’s Queenstown Calling, They Say They Miss You.
We hear a lot about the abysmal standards of the legacy media. One sided opinion articles pretending to be factual commentaries abound. Silly little so-called ‘journalists’, whining about how racist their last latte was or manufacturing angst about imaginary slights; all designed to rark up the offenderatti and generate