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Ardern Still in Training

Ardern Still in Training

By John Two good articles have appeared this week: Fran O’Sullivan in the Weekend Herald criticising the leader of the Labour party and Matthew Hooton doing the same to the leader of the National party. Neither could be termed complimentary. Far from it. Let’s look at Fran’s.

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The Next Election Will Be a Nailbiter

The Next Election Will Be a Nailbiter

I used to be a fan of Peter Dunne. I even voted for him in 2002. But when he was in coalition with the last government, his preening and posturing (not to mention his hypocritical privacy claims over emails with a female journalist), left me wanting to vomit. I was

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It’s Okay to Be Racist If You’re Coloured

It’s Okay to Be Racist If You’re Coloured

It’s okay to be racist if you’re coloured because people are victimised by aggressors who are apparently usually white people. Representative for Minnesota, Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, should be regretting a 2018 interview that recently resurfaced. “She said: ‘I would say our country should be more fearful of

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The KKK Love Ilhan Omar

The KKK Love Ilhan Omar

It’s common knowledge that the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats, and their unholy alliance continued for over a century. But just to show how deep continuing Klan-Democrat ties ran, Bill Clinton launched his inaugural Presidential campaign at Stone Mountain – the founding-place and “the sacred site”

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Hooton’s Burning Bridges

Hooton’s Burning Bridges

Matthew Hooton seems to have finally run out of patience with Simon Bridges. At least he gave him a fair chance, unlike Tova O’Brien, who appears to have a personal grudge against Bridges. The thing is, as the weeks go by and we get closer to next year’s

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Jacinda Is on Another Jaunt

Jacinda Is on Another Jaunt

Jacinda is off to Tokelau this weekend. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will visit Tokelau this weekend. It’s the first trip to the territory by a prime minister since Helen Clark in 2004 and comes as part of the government’s Pacific Reset strategy. Announcing details of

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Boris Johnson’s Greatest Hits

Boris Johnson’s Greatest Hits

When Donald Trump was elected president, the political-cultural elite clutched their pearls and gasped, shocked that anyone could have voted for that awful – so “un-presidential”! – man. But what the fainting maiden aunts of contemporary left-wing orthodoxy utterly failed to comprehend was that Trump’s rough-hewn genuineness

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