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Tani Newton Some time before the 2023 election, I noticed a cartoon that showed Winston Peters on a surfboard, riding a wave marked “Freedom Movement”. Surely not, thought I. The freedom movement had stalled at two per cent of the population. It was not a demographic significant enough to be
My previous article was headlined Is Labour a Spent Force? The headline for this article asks a similar question with a different emphasis, implying it most probably is, based on its performance in opposition to date. Bryce Edwards, in a recent article on the Democracy Project, gives numerous examples of
Paul Holmes once said the main quality for being a journalist was ‘to have lived’. By this he meant that you should have been around the block a couple of times, experienced highs and lows in life and struggled at something and come through the other side in one piece:
The media are pretty much all cuddling up to the corpse of Newshub. It is unedifying and and as predictable as it is pathetic. There are some exceptions to that, however, and one is Heather du Plessis-Allan. She says it’s dead: let it go. We need to let
As we head into the final week of our Coalition Government’s first 100 days, I’d like to update you on an issue raised repeatedly with me in last year’s election campaign: law and order. The previous Government’s soft-on-crime approach left many Kiwis feeling unsafe
A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com Ron Johnson has gradually become one of my favorite senators in American history. In 2020, he repeatedly advocated for early Covid-19 treatments to be made available to Americans (which had they been made available would have ended the pandemic). Throughout 2021, he spoke out
I’ve noticed two things recently. The first is you want to get pseudoephedrine back on the shelves and, secondly, your opposition to the previous government’s plans to ban tobacco. This to me demonstrates one thing – that you get that prohibition and the war on drugs has been an
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Russian President Vladimir Putin sponsored an outreach to Palestinian terrorists. Does Russia really need Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and 14 other Palestinian Liberation Organization members as pals? Apparently, the Russian president believes he does. On February 29, representatives from these terrorist factions met in Moscow
Kelli Ballard libertynation.com As waves of illegal immigrants continue to cross the US southern border, cities, states, and towns across the nation are buckling under the fiscal weight of providing services in the form of legal protections, food, housing, clothing, and medical care. Some lawmakers are going even further
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett is a Brownstone Institute fellow, independent journalist and advocate for Australians injured by the Covid vaccines. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia, and writes for her Substack, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org Covid vaccine mandates enforced on Queensland police and
Harry Palmer With all the talk of a ‘Great Reset’ being needed and the obvious change that has taken place in society over the last decade or so, you know that something way bigger, way more monstrous, is coming. It’s still over the horizon but you can hear it
Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government. democracyproject.substack.com Democracy is the loser whenever a major media company disappears. We’ve seen a total consensus about
Mark Freeman Deputy prime minister and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has reiterated his commitment to replace the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid. On Thursday, around 100 people turned out for a rally on the steps of parliament organised by NZDSOS to commemorate the start of the Covid
Two obviously completely unrelated things happened yesterday. First, the head of Australia’s spy agency, ASIO, dropped a bombshell: that ASIO had busted a spy-ring in Australia, including an ex-MP-turned-spy who had tried to recruit others, including a prime minister’s family member. ASIO boss Mike
Oh no! Another wet LINO has been shot down, and the establishment shills aren’t happy. A LINO is the Australian equivalent of the American RINO. New Zealanders might call them NINOs. They’re the dripping-wet, wannabe Greens who’ve infested supposedly conservative parties in the West, posing as
