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JD Labour’s gone, so the leftie press is now excited about the performance of the Greens and Te Pati Maori. But how does this compare to previous elections? How much support comes from voters embracing their socialist ideologies, and how much from people voting for other reasons? Looking first
Danyl McLauchlan democracyproject.nz Danyl McLauchlan writes about politics, economics, science and philosophy – mostly for the Listener. He is also the author of two novels and a recent essay collection, Tranquillity and Ruin. Two of the most significant policy disputes in the run-up to New Zealand’s 2023 election
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. He now writes regularly for the Democracy Project, producing his column “From the Left”. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz DISINFORMATION has been part and parcel of
Over the weekend I was sent a video from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It outlined in two short, yet horrifying minutes some of the appalling war crimes and atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on innocent civilians of Israel in the border areas around the Gaza Strip. I was also
The defeat of the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, if nothing else, showed just what a grassroots, low-budget campaign can achieve against the assembled might of the elite. The Yes campaign had the backing of the government, most of the minor parties, and even prominent members of the opposition. Every single
With the referendum done and dusted, the activist groups behind it have dropped their masks of “unity” and “love”, and revealed their true, ugly face. Australians can heave a sigh of relief that we dodged the bullet of this lot. After spending a week throwing an epic sulking fit, an
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
As Lewis Carroll’s Humpty-Dumpty famously said, “When, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less”. The whole point, he elaborated, is “which is to be master”. As history has regularly shown, authoritarian ideologies regularly twist the plain meanings of words in order to
Jim Cable To most Kiwis, “fairness” is a concept deeply rooted in our psyches. But as an ideal it’s been long abused by exploitative individuals who’ve relentlessly perverted it. Consider how often we, as a nation, have uniformly upheld or endorsed all manner of palpable nonsense from the
Prof. Eitan Shamir BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,223, October 22, 2023 (Ph.D. Kings College) Former head of the National Security Doctrine Department in the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Expert on insurgencies and combat doctrine. besacenter.org A decade ago, in 2013, I published an article with
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change Albert Einstein Change is what the country wanted, and change it did, leaving a shell-shocked Labour Party wondering just what had happened. A bolt from the blue – literally. But they knew it was coming, they just couldn’t bring themselves
Before the election, you will recall that I told you, repeatedly, that National was not an agent of change. That they were the party of the status quo, preferring to manage what Labour has done, but more efficiently. They were asking you to vote for change but it is now
Maryanne Demasi Maryanne Demasi, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an investigative medical reporter with a PhD in rheumatology, who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade, she produced TV documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has worked as a speechwriter and political advisor
Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. libertynation.com
Joe Schaeffer Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. Striving to be a natural health nut, he considers staring at
