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If there was one left-wing politician I’ve always had a lot of respect for it was Roy Jenkins. He was a UK Labour MP, albeit on the right wing of the party, a cabinet minister in the Wilson Governments; Home Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was then
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com When the new Coalition Government was announced little more than three weeks ago, those of us who believe that a democracy where every citizen has equal political rights
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Labour is in the doldrums in the last poll of the year. It is the Roy Morgan though, but it does show how much Kiwis have fallen out of love with Labour. Today’s Roy Morgan New Zealand Poll for November 2023 shows new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the
Democracy is, above all else, the art of compromise. Short of the sort of hive-mind that the left can only dream of, citizens of a polity are going to have very different and often opposing needs, wants and opinions. You can’t, to paraphrase FDR, please all of the people,
Do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life. That old saying is true even for whores: and there are no more willing whores than the mainstream media. When the NZ media indignantly denied that taking the government’s money influenced them to be favourable
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Steve Kirsch Founder, Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (vacsafety.org) kirschsubstack.com Executive summary Another day, another flawed fact check. This one comes with a bonus about Professor Jeffrey Morris. Morris told the reporter that it is OK to download and analyze the New Zealand data, but not OK to talk
This week the Tauranga Sump met for the final daytime get-together for 2023. At the height of Jacinda Ardern’s reign, John Key called New Zealand a hermit kingdom. Not satisfied with a reclusive isolated country, the Prime Minister worked her powers and incredibly went much further. Kiwis were ordered
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com “Crimes include, murder, racketeering, biological weapons laws
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s the first thing that came to mind after the news that protestors had been abseiling inside Te Papa
We are getting many news stories published where we are told that “officials” have advised the Government that they should keep this, or that, or simply not do something that voters elected the Government to deliver, because they don’t agree with the policy. The latest is “officials” opposing any
Mark Freeman Covid vaccine data whistleblower Barry Young says he can’t wait for his trial. On Monday he pleaded not guilty in the Wellington District Court to a charge of accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes. A former database administrator for Health New Zealand’s (Te Whatu Ora)
Tim Donner libertynation.com For those who accept the well-worn but dubious assertion that liberty is worth compromising for the sake of security, we present, a quarter of a millennium later, the Boston Tea Party. It was December 16, 1773. Restless colonists, patriots willing to go beyond unrest and betrayal
Richard Kelly Richard Kelly is a retired business analyst, married with three adult children and one dog and devastated by the way his home city of Melbourne was laid waste. Convinced justice will be served one day. brownstone.org In their famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ bout, Muhammad Ali and
