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Over the last century, the Labour Party has always amounted to nothing more than a huge con game, but now the game is up. One unfortunate aspect of life, in the sense it’s taken about a century, is elections don’t happen very often and nor do Labour Governments.
The smartest move Joe Biden ever made was selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate. After all, who’d impeach even a sleazy, senile con-man, only to see him replaced by President Kamala Harris? But it seems that the magic shield of Kamala is wearing thin. Joe Biden faces
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Staff Writer/Researcher newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021
As I reported for the BFD last week, the UK parliament gave a subtle middle finger to Beijing when it adopted a cross-party report that described Taiwan as “an independent country”. The Sunak government has lent its support to another besieged democracy, with a timely visit to Israel. The
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most futile job in New Zealand right now is that of a political columnist. With four weeks to go to the election, they pretend the outcome is uncertain when they know full well the election is done and dusted. That’s because this is easily
You almost have to feel sorry for Australian republic activists. Almost. Because then you remember that they’re people like Malcolm Turnbull and Pirate Pete FitzSimons, and you just laugh at them instead. Because, for all their decades of hectoring, bullying, finger-wagging, and swearing that this time — this time
Honest News Team As the days tick down to voting day, it’s disheartening to witness the two leading parties, the supposed architects of our political future, already causing ripples of instability in our system. But in the grand scheme of things, this might be the least of our concerns.
The pre-election opening of the books read a bit like a Mills and Boon romantic fiction novel, and, in terms of not being able to confidently make predictions, they are to a degree, fiction. However, what predictions there might be were certainly not romantic. There is no doubt that
Peter Allan Williams peterallanwilliams.substack.com Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week The separatist health system has come to the fore again. A new cervical cancer screening programme has started whereby women
JH National has announced a plan for when they get the power of the purse: pay doctors up to $52m to persuade Kiwis to get vaccinated. The Immunisation Incentive Payments scheme would see GP clinics paid a lump sum for achieving immunisation targets, including full immunisation for two-year-olds,
Richard Shaw Professor of Politics Massey University Christopher Luxon is no slouch on the dance floor, it seems. As his wife Amanda told the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the two prepared for their university ball with a ballroom dancing class. The teacher said he had rhythm and I couldn’
Labour has copped an absolute shellacking in the polls over the past ten days. Newshub/Reid Research was the fifth bad poll for them, and now the Guardian has released a new poll, making it six bad polls for Labour. Neither a Labour nor a National coalition could form a
In May of 2002, US mob boss Joseph Bonanno died at the ripe old age of 97, having spent around seven decades avoiding death within the underworld. One of the things about Bonanno which has always intrigued me is how treacherous he was. His first major example of this was
Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins says he takes responsibility for his party’s poor result in the latest poll. The Reid Research Newshub poll puts Labour support at 26.8 per cent, its worst result in six years, with National on 40.9. This poll shows Labour’s support plummeting
Groucho Marx famously didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. For Australia’s political elites, it’s more a case of desperately wanting the perks of a club they publicly profess to loathe. Forget the Melbourne Club, the Atheneum, or the Tattersall’
