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If the polls are anything to go by, Rishi Sunak is the last of a lamentable succession of PMs dragging the Conservatives to an electoral hiding next month. Coming just five years after a landslide win, that’s certainly an achievement, of sorts. On the eve of the election, though,
Frank Miele Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His newest book, “What Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends,” is available from his Amazon author page. realclearwire.com “Death to America!” We are used to that chant. Maybe
No doubt like its New Zealand counterpart, the taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda unit ABC’s Q+A is a dreary leftist circle-jerk. Its idea of “balance” is to set up a single “conservative” panellist to be repeatedly shouted over by a chorus of screeching leftists, and cut off mid-sentence by the
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes managed to turn the crank handle of that big Southern Cross diesel in his father’s shed when he was about 8 years old. He and his wife Judy have spent their lives in exploration (coal, uranium, oil and gas), investment analysis, political agitation, watching the
Once upon a time, security agents “pink listed” politicians who were suspected of being clandestine shirt-lifters. This was because the shame and odium then attached to being potentially exposed as a pillow-biter were so strong that it left them wide open to blackmail by foreign agents. Not any more. Today,
The Graborigines are scrambling with both hands outstretched, in Victoria. Which is hardly surprising in a state where “First Peoples” activists are often as lily-white and blue-eyed as a Reichskommissar could wish for. Because this is also a state where the gibsmedat flows deeper than the mighty old man Murray.
Family First NZ Family First is welcoming the reintroduction of the Three Strikes Law, saying that it will protect families from repeat violent offenders who have already been given two chances. A 2023 poll found that just 16% of New Zealanders oppose bringing back the ‘Three Strikes’ law which was
Hon Chris Bishop Minister Responsible for RMA Reform Hon Todd McClay Minister of Agriculture Hon Andrew Hoggard Associate Minister for the Environment The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management
First, let me say I think overall the Prime Minister is doing a good job. He didn’t disappoint in executing his 100-day plan. He and his ministers have been getting on with the job, and publishing a plan for the next few months was a good move. I do
I listened to a Mediawatch bulletin from RNZ and heard the authors of the Trust in Media report exhorting news outlets to carry less opinion, emphasising that the issue of opinion, and the slant of such, was a major, very major, concern to news-consumers and a huge factor in the
While the Government moves to honour an election promise by introducing legislation to bring back the Three Strikes laws, Labour is hell-bent on proving that they are the party for the criminal classes in New Zealand. The opposition has laid into the government’s plan to reintroduce a “three strikes”
Dear Editor It is another Hipkins disaster. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350246034/how-did-cost-moving-two-schools-blow-out-more-400m I have been in the building industry for over twenty years and I have done a lot of schools. I find them a low margin business for several reasons. I obviously am moving in the
Life can take unexpected turns, as Krusty the Clown once reminded Bart Simpson. “One day you’re the most important guy that ever lived, the next day you’re some shmoe working in a box factory.” And, as Brittany Higgins is finding, one minute you’re tongue-lashing your old boss
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org Despite
Tim Graham Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. newsbusters.org Charlotte Klein at Vanity Fair was upset that the
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, “Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science” (Pen & Sword/Frontline) is available now, and exposes how
