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Letter from the North

December 11th, 2023 As the year draws to a close, various conflicts around the world are getting more active and even my little bit of rural England has seen a couple of Palestinian flags on display in the high street. I had an interesting conversation in London last week about

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A Not So Merry Baldmas for Klouse

A Not So Merry Baldmas for Klouse

“Fritz!” bellowed Klouse (the K is silent) Swab, leader of the Wicked Eugenicist Fascists (WEF) and would-be dictator of the world. “Schnell, schnell, Fritz. A lame snail could on ze razor blades faster than you move.” Fritz rushed to stand before his master, knowing full well that were he one-millionth

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Time to Put up the Littlewood Treaty?

Time to Put up the Littlewood Treaty?

Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com While staff at Te Papa museum in Wellington ponder what to do with the treaty display that was defaced by protesters on Monday, I suggest that the Busby February 4 document, which is also known

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No Media Honeymoon for New Govt

No Media Honeymoon for New Govt

Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com A neighbour last week

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Shane Jones Says ‘Goodbye, Freddy’
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Shane Jones Says ‘Goodbye, Freddy’

Almost every day I am finding more and more reasons to like this Government. Shane Jones has spoken with complete sense as the Government moves to mine, drill and sell our natural resources. Resources Minister Shane Jones has gone “full Trump” and declared “war on nature” with comments he made

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We Must Save Ourselves from the Public Health Professionals

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

John & Nisha Whitehead Constitutional attorney and author John W Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction

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Principals’ ‘Treat Yourself’ Grants a Red Flag for Waste in Education
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Principals’ ‘Treat Yourself’ Grants a Red Flag for Waste in Education

“The Auditor General’s annual report on school spending is an eye-opening look at wasteful spending in school administration,” says ACT Education spokesperson Laura Trask. “Taxpayers forking out $6 million a year on wellbeing grants for highly-paid school administrators is concerning enough. Then we learn that the Ministry of Education

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Milestone Reached on Repeal of Fair Pay Agreements Legislation

Milestone Reached on Repeal of Fair Pay Agreements Legislation

Hon Brooke van Velden Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Legislation to repeal Fair Pay Agreements passed its third reading in Parliament today, achieving an early milestone in the Government’s 100-day plan. We have moved quickly, as the public expects us to do, to implement one of our 100-day

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Similar Journeys Reflect the Time We’re In

Similar Journeys Reflect the Time We’re In

The left-wing media will have you believe the current National Government in New Zealand and Republican party in the US have recently made major radical moves to the right. That they are taking us back to the ’70s or even the ’50s. That is rubbish and is a deliberate narrative

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NZDSOS Check the ‘Expert’ on the Platform

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Helen Petousis-Harris wrote a pandemic opinion piece It’s not the apocalypse, but yes, you should care, published on 20 February 2020. At this time, China – where around 30,000 deaths occur each day – had reported 2,121 Covid-related deaths across

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Another Day and Another Labour Landmine
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Another Day and Another Labour Landmine

Now that someone sensible is looking over our country’s books, we are starting to discover just how large the economic problem that Labour has left us actually is. It’s large and getting larger. At some point the blame needs to be sheeted home to Grant Robertson; he’s

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