Everything about politics
So, the NZ government says it’s finally taking strong action on youth crime, following a wave of ram-raids, assaults, and other serious crimes. What is it doing? Zero tolerance? Harsh punishment? Increased police presence? Oh, please. You already know the answer: more cuddles and koha. The Government says
Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
I’m not sure you would find a more gripping saga than the movement through the House of the divisive Three Waters bill. PM Jacinda Ardern demonstrated adept political manoeuvring this week using a nifty little technique for avoiding questions she has no intention of answering. Ardern is very, very
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The pressure on Jacinda Ardern to sack Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta is building. But Mahuta is too powerful within the Labour Party to get
“Informed consent is vital and is the cornerstone of the Code”, said Morag McDowell, Health and Disability Commissioner in her report following her investigation into the GP who emailed patients about his concerns about the Covid-19 vaccine and on behalf of New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science. It
Despite massive public opposition to Three Waters, Labour rammed the legislation through Parliament yesterday, even losing the Green Party and Maori Party support for the legislation. The Government has passed its major Three Waters reform bill into law, with Labour the only party supporting the controversial legislation. Labour voted the
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” The U.N. COP27 conference was held in Egypt and attracted the global elites and more than four hundred private jets.
The UK is facing a food crisis of a like not seen since the Second World War — and the culprit isn’t the great, big bogey, “climate change”. Quite the reverse: the culprit is mostly climate change alarmism. As happened with the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the Chicken Littles are
The Greens, as I have often said, are a toxic party full of toxic people. They’ve been doing little, lately, to disabuse me of that notion. Of course, when the party’s CV of scandals — mostly covered up as assiduously as possible, the Greens, despite their pious rhetoric, being
Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com. Elon Musk’s announced “general amnesty” week has come and gone and there has been no
righttolife.org.uk Over 20,000 people marched through Malta’s capital, Valletta, on Sunday afternoon, protesting the Maltese Government’s decision to table a bill that would introduce abortion to Malta. The demonstration was one of the largest protests in recent Maltese history, showing that the deeply pro-life
Impeachment ain’t what it used to be. Like most of the great Republic founded by the extraordinary genius of the Founding Fathers, the process of impeachment has been bastardised and demeaned by grubby politics. What was once the ultimate and most extraordinary function allowed to the legislature has degenerated
Richard Prebble bassettbrashandhide.com The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. Winston Peters, aged 77,
The media are flailing around searching for other missiles to chuck at Luxon over the Hamilton West byelection, as their ‘not another pale, stale, male’ line has become redundant with National’s selection of high calibre candidate Tama Potaka. I must admit I had my doubts when he was announced
