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Chris Trotter democracyproject.nz Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with thirty years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. BY THE END of this week, or the next, New Zealand will have a government. It is unlikely to be a pleasant one. The three
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The last six years of inept management by the Hipkins-Ardern Labour Government has exposed a multitude of problems facing the country that need to be addressed. Since poor outcomes have become the norm in most public policy areas, the lack of resilience of many New
I have a rule in modern politics: never, ever say sorry, especially if there are hordes of woke wombles on social media clamouring for an apology. It’s what they want and after they get the apology, they start trying to pressure you some more to resign or be ‘more
One of the universal attributes of left-wingers is they are scared of everything. They are terrified of anything which constitutes ‘day-to-day life’ and try to either ban it, regulate it, or scold it. This is why they jumped into the March 2020 lockdowns with enthusiasm; they could be terrified of
Newly elected Argentinian President Javier Milei, last month said: “I don’t go to Church, I go to Synagogue. I don’t follow a priest, I follow a Rabbi. I learn Torah. I’m known internationally as a friend of Israel. In addition to aligning with the US and Israel,
In news that surprises absolutely no-one, Optus’ chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has quit. The spectacular resignation follows an even more spectacular outage recently, which cut off more than 10 million Australians from phone and internet services. The outage affected everything from banking to emergency communications. The Melbourne suburban train
November 19th 2023 I’m thinking of renaming my letters “Ripley’s believe it or not”. Recent events in the UK are verging on the unbelievable. Not satisfied with both main political parties becoming a complete parody of political parties and displaying signs of being a complete shambles the whole
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history
New Zealand’s latest immigration figures tell a story being heard right across the West. Child-rearing age New Zealanders are fleeing their country in droves: now more so than ever. And they’re being more than replaced by child-bearing age migrants from the Global South. But that’s all just
Willie Jackson, once again, has made the mistake of opening his mouth. Willie is something of an arsonist in the sense that his comments are designed to be inflammatory and have an incendiary feel about them. He aims to light a fire under the topic he is speaking on. Willie’
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 The Maori proverb goes “he tangata, he tangata, he tangata – it is the people, it is the people, it is
Yesterday morning (as I wrote this) David Seymour was on TV 3’s AM show, where he said there was going to be a three-party coalition; instead of ACT being only in coalition with National, and Winston only being in coalition with National, ACT and Winston would be in coalition
The woke wombles at Stuff are all enraged that the incoming Government may axe all the Maori names and use of Maori in communications. Chance’d be a fine thing, given how woke Christopher Luxon is. But if there are changes they are likely being driven by David Seymour and
It’s my own fault. Watch one cat video and they’re in your feed for life. I don’t mind too much; everyone loves a bit of fun at a cat’s expense. One that popped up last night is a little piece of evil genius, a tech take
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer of political philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. mercatornet.com Last Wednesday, Thierry Breton, EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, proudly announced on Twitter/X that he had struck a deal with MEPs to create a European “digital identity
