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Like all politicians and similar hucksters, the truth comes out, not during the campaign or the hard sell, but once the vote is in and the deal is done. Politicians and used-car salesmen will grease you with all manner of snake oil: it’s only when they’ve got
Will Jones Will Jones is editor of the Daily Sceptic. brownstone.org In one of the more bizarre moments at the Covid Inquiry so far, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain’s lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order – in the latest instance
It’s disgusting and nauseating, but not exactly surprising, to see the hateful extremists of the Greens proudly marching alongside Muslims chanting “Gas the Jews!” and salivating over the murder of thousands of Israelis. They’re the Greens, after all. Extremism, from Stalinism to Islamic fanaticism, is in their bitter
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 I’m sharing this message on behalf
In a few days, hopefully on Friday when the special votes and the final election result are declared, National and Chris Luxon will take office. This will usher in a new era in New Zealand: an era of common sense and prosperity, and rejecting a lot of the socialist wickedness
Have a wee thought for Chris Hipkins, who seems to be shedding a few tears as he comes to grip with being the feather duster after six years of thinking he was the rooster. Apparently, it’s ‘pretty tough’ to lose their cushy jobs after the voters caned them in
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Brian Tamaki This is yet another history-defining moment we are living in. Will you be on the right side of history? I strongly believe New Zealand has not gone far enough in condemning the actions of Hamas. Hamas supporters and sympathisers should not be tolerated in New Zealand. I
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org New government data emerged this week showing that food prices in Canada continue to climb. Though year-over-year inflation of consumer prices overall cooled to 3.8% in September,
In what would surely stand as the worst agreement since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Australian Greens are agitating for a formal coalition with Labor. Anthony Albanese should enter into a formal coalition with the Greens, sign a public power-sharing deal with Adam Bandt and promote Greens MPs to
As Hemingway’s character Mike Campbell observes, in The Sun Also Rises, he went bankrupt “Two ways… Gradually and then suddenly.” The world has slid into a poisonous eruption of naked anti-Semitism in similar fashion: gradually and then suddenly. Anti-Semitism, fashionably disguised as “pro-Palestinian”, has been gradually
Daniel Lacalle Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat? (2015), and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). mises.org According to the US Treasury, year-end data
Tom Harper University of East London theconversation.com The Taliban’s presence at the massive October jamboree in Beijing to celebrate the 10th year of China’s ambitious trade plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is part of Beijing’s regional strategy. This was one of only a handful
Simon Angelo WealthMorning.com This article is editorial content. It is the author’s personal opinion and commentary. It is general in nature and should not be construed as any financial or investment advice. ‘A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.’ Edward R. Murrow Two documentary films
Bryce Edwards I am a 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 In recent decades the New Zealand Parliament has become more representative of some of the historically
I came to New Zealand in the 1980s, and it was a very decent place to live back then. At a time when Britain was starting to deal with race riots due to immigration, New Zealand was a broad contrast. The people were great, the culture was familiar and, above
