Everything about politics
February 6th 2023. On the Politics Live BBC TV programme at lunchtime today, Emily Thornberry Labour’s shadow attorney general let slip a comment that shocked me. She either meant something different or didn’t realise what she was saying. She said that the same corporate tax rate should apply
For some time now activists, probably incited by this Labour Government’s skewed ideology that social justice and equality for Maori can only be achieved by overriding the principles of democracy, have been, with increasing regularity and intensity, demanding that “Pakeha accept decolonisation”! To investigate decolonisation, we must first understand
Phil Green * UPDATED I write this the day before Waitangi day, when the nation waits with bated breath to see how the newly minted Prime Minister engages with Maori on the most controversial and divisive manicured lawns in New Zealand. By the time you read this, it’ll be a
Stuart Nash used to be a capable politician but somewhere along the line he became neutered and illogical. Last week he suggested, as the new Police Minister, that the way to stop ram raids was to ban the sale of a legal product from stores: Returning Police Minister Stuart Nash
What is a PM to do when he is trying to distract the public from a stinking turd? He rolls it in sprinkles of course and calls it a dessert. Co-governance could be in for a re-branding from the new Prime Minister. Chris Hipkins met with the Iwi
Michael Keane Michael Keane is adjunct associate professor, Swinburne University, adjunct senior lecturer, Monash University and a specialist anaesthetist. Kara Thomas Kara Thomas is the secretary of the Australian Medical Professionals Society brownstone.org We genuinely urge doctors involved with medical regulation not to go down with the sinking ship
Nick Judin Mississippi Free Press ProPublica JACKSON, Miss. – The freeze of early 2021 wasn’t the origin of Jackson, Mississippi’s water system collapse. But the winter storm introduced the country to Jackson’s aging and improperly maintained pipes and water plants, which failed and left residents without clean water
Dr Rainer Zitelmann Dr Rainer Zitelmann is a historian and sociologist. He is also a world-renowned author, successful businessman and real estate investor. Zitelmann has written more than 20 books. His books are successful all around the world, especially in China, India and South Korea. His most recent books
Alex Christy newsbusters.org Alex Christy majored in political science from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA and has previously written for The College Conservative and previously interned for The Daily Caller News Foundation. Alex is originally from Everett, WA. New York Times columnist Bret Stephens reacted to a Leonard
Molly Kingsley brownstone.org Molly Kingsley is a co-founder at UsForThem, the parent campaign group formed in May 2020 to advocate against school closures. They have since been joined by tens of thousands of parents, grandparents and professionals across the UK and beyond, advocating for children to be prioritized
Umberto Eco’s infamous essay on “ur-fascism” is one of the dumbest things he ever wrote – naturally, it’s a great favourite of the left-media. If we’re to take Eco’s nonsense seriously, just about everything is a sign of imminent fascism. The saddest part about such
Antonio Cambria cfact.org The Biden administration signed a deal with countries rife with child labor nearly a week before blocking a major Minnesota mining project as part of its “green” push. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would prohibit mining in more than 200,000 acres of land
Nanaia Mahuta’s demotion and removal as Local Government Minister was clearly meant to send a message that things will be different under Prime Minister Hipkins. But will they…? Labour’s slide in the polls was closely linked to the declining popularity of Jacinda Ardern as the public grew tired
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Believe it or not, America took a baby step toward energy sanity with federal approval of the first small modular nuclear reactor design. With efficient hydrocarbon energy under siege, and intermittent wind
Former Covid minister Chris Hipkins’s prolonged public argument with, and humiliation of, pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis, stranded in Afghanistan, the land of the Taliban, is one of my most ghastly memories of the debacle which was the Covid response. (Of course ‘trustworthy’ then Covid minister Hipkins had a laundry
