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Boy, there’s all sorts of stuff going on in Australia, right now. If only we were allowed to know about it. First, there were the charges against She Who Cannot Be Named of They Who Must Remain Secret, for kidnapping and torturing a man for Reasons We Cannot Discuss.
It’s only taken him, what? Five years to figure it out. ASIO chief Mike Burgess has finally clued in to the literally bleeding obvious: Islamic extremism is our greatest terrorist threat. Next on Magic Mike’s to-do list: figuring out that, holy shit, did you guys know that
Elizabeth Pearson Programme Lead MSc Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies, Royal Holloway University of London Shamima Begum is not coming home. The Islamic State (IS) poster girl lost her latest appeal against the British government’s 2019 decision to strip her of her citizenship on grounds of national security. The
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Local thief and former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has allegedly been asked by police to cooperate in a time saving exercise, as an attempt to clear up this whole mess she’s gotten herself into. ‘The Ponsonby Pincher’, who now has a fourth charge of shoplifting
C. S. Lewis had a number of things to say about “humanitarian” theories of crime and punishment, as they stood in his day. His remarks stand the test of time admirably. After all, who couldn’t read the opening words of The Silver Chair, with its description of “modern” school,
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com This Thursday, on the anniversary of our protest to parliament, we need to meet again. To call for the cessation of COVID injections and a full unbiased investigation. See Event Details. In the heart of democracy, beneath the looming edifice of
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. NEWZEALANDDOC Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. I read with mild interest in Dr. Peter McCullough’s substack
Chris Trotter democracyproject.substack.com THE INTENSIFYING POLITICAL CONTROVERSY over the Coalition Government’s policy on gangs promises to be one of those sheep-from-goats moments. While the Left will veer instinctively towards the sociological, the Right will opt to (paraphrasing one of the best lines from Pulp Fiction)
Jan Dewar Head of Nursing Denise Wilson Associate Dean Maori Advancement | Professor Maori Health Gail Pacheco Professor of Economics, Director of the NZ Work Research Institute Lisa Meehan Deputy Director, NZ Work Research Institute Auckland University of Technology During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy was being made
Political journalists and commentators are often prone to examples of exaggeration. Tova O’Brien is one of the worst, but it is understandable when you work for a niche publication that is so close to failing that its staff resort to calamitous exaggerated headlines to attract readers to their dross.
Hon David Seymour Associate Minister of Health Pharmac is changing its process so it can assess a funding application at the same time Medsafe is assessing the application for regulatory approval. This means that medicines will be able to be considered for funding sooner in New Zealand. Access to medicines
Well, I’ll give this to Anthony Albanese: he’s got more guts than I’d have credited him for. As I speculated recently, it would be telling to see if the PM personally campaigned for the critical Dunkley by-election this week. After all, it’s fast getting to
There are political leaders who make their valedictory addresses a fitting sign-off for greatness. Eisenhower’s prophetic warning of a “scientific-technological elite”, for instance. Others make an apparent valedictory address as the keystone of a mere interregnum in a long and storied career, such as John Howard’s
Jas Kalra Associate Professor of Operations & Project Management Manchester Metropolitan University British people are known around the world for their love of tea. This is borne out by the statistics: a staggering 50 billion cups of tea are consumed on average in the UK every year. Most of this
Yet again, Margaret Thatcher’s pointed condemnation of socialism, “eventually you run out of other people’s money”, is being proved true. Even when it’s “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. I’ve always taken breathless media reports of China’s “economic miracle” with a grain of salt. Every time some
