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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
David James ronpaulinstitute.org Laws to ban disinformation and misinformation are being introduced across the West, with the partial exception being the US, which has the First Amendment so the techniques to censor have had to be more clandestine. In Europe, the UK, and Australia, where free speech is not
The Chinese economy is on the skids. Then again, it’s always been on the skids. Country Garden’s dollar debt payments on Monday and Beijing’s new efforts to help China’s beleaguered real estate sector appear to have spurred some newfound hope in the country’s financial markets.
Gilbert Berdine, MD Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. mises.org Healthcare providers have known for years that contact between patients and family members are essential for good outcomes
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’
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 There’s something very sinister going on at the Ministry for the Environment. Quite possibly with encouragement from Minister David
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura The crime wave in New Zealand is out of control, ranging from youths stealing cars and ram-raiding businesses to street violence, and we have had enough. Gangs are running rampant, emboldened by Labour’s soft-on-crime approach. Since Labour took office in 2017,
No, let’s (not) talk about sex, baby (as sung by Salt-N-Pepa). Let’s talk about cosy three-party coalition deals after the 14 October election. And Mr Luxon better take heed of what the polls are revealing. I was not surprised by one, largely overlooked, aspect of
Chih-Ling Liu Lancaster University theconversation.com China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015. Though
One major reason that the Republic referendum sunk ignominiously in 1999 was the overriding perception that it was all by and for the elite. The sight of a clique of hand-picked politicians and activists whooping it up in Canberra, at the aptly named “Con-con”, was just the start.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com It has become an ‘extreme view’ to question whether some of the ‘water-related’ deaths (many were not called ‘drownings’) that have occurred in the past two years might have been medical events occurring in the water. Medical events such as
A mother in Atlanta complaining that her daughter’s school segregates classes into black and white. Surely a headline from the Jim Crow days, pre-Brown versus Board of Education? No, it’s modern America, under the spell of “Critical Race Theory”. And segregation is back in a big way.
Claire Trevett, if her article in the Weekend Herald is anything to go by, seems to think Labour are still in the game. I hate to give her the bad news re Chippie, but the chips are down and the man and his party are gone-burgers. She says the
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 One of my favourite political quotes comes from the great American writer and satirist Henry Louis Mencken. H.L. Mencken
The 8-point personal pledge card released by Christopher Luxon reads like a Captain’s Call. We have had enough of ill-thought-out and ignorant ‘Captain’s Calls’ from the regime of the “be kind” patronising leader of the Labour Government and we surely do not want to go
A Halfling’s View djhdcj.substack.com Introduction A commentator who has adopted the name Thomas Cranmer has been causing something of a stir with his articles which have appeared on Substack and Twitter. I follow Cranmer on Substack and enjoy his writing. He is thoughtful and thorough and bases
