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How Did the UK Get Into This State?
September 5th, 2023 The UK really is becoming depressing, with Rishi Sunak constantly demonstrating that even though he has a brain the size of a planet, he doesn’t understand the planet that we live on. He continuously comes across as aloof and distanced. Last week my little town was
That’s Gaslighting NZ on a Gigantic Scale
Monica Hughes PhD themariachiyears.substack.com For those who don’t know, New Zealand has a New Prime Minister since Jacinda Ardern stepped down in order to work toward more important goals such as global censorship. New Zealand’s PM is Chris Hipkins. Before this he was Minister of Covid-
Getting on with the Job
In my last article I was somewhat critical of National for its strategies and some of its policies not being sufficiently in tune with its core voter base. That was not to detract from the fact that a National/ACT coalition will form the next Government. One thing I think
We Need to Heal Our Broken Country
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com The battlelines have been drawn.
A Week of Polling Disasters for Labour
Last week was a perfect storm of polling disasters for the Labour Party. It started with the Roy Morgan poll, the The Post poll, then Talbot Mills (Labour’s own pollster) and finally the Taxpayers’ Union poll. All saying the same thing: Labour’s support has cratered from the 2020
The Cochrane Mask Review, and Fauci
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
The Global War on Thoughts
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
China Is Going Down the Gurgler
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.
Let Family Members in to ICU
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
New Zealand Changes Tack in the Gulf
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’
What Is MfE up To?
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
National Will Crack Down on Gangs
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,
New Zealand Prefers a Right-Wing Threesome to a Left One
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
‘I Almost Lost My Will to Live’
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
Elite Voice a Big Turn-off
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.