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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Stephen Berry. Support Racial Division? You Are Just What They Are Looking For. The poison of identity politics is
Why Would Anyone Choose to Be Part of This Circus?
Information Opinion Hands up if you have done something stupid in your teenage years, something that in later years you’ve lived to regret. If that question was put to a live audience who replied honestly, there would be very few hands that wouldn’t go up. We’ve all
The Last Line Is a Killer
There is a great deal of chatter at the moment about bullying and bullying culture. Most of it is focused on the school boy actions of Sam Uffindell. But a lone voice has written a column in the NZ Herald talking about the bullying inside Parliament, and especially inside the
Govt Works with Foundation but Ignores NZDSOS
Media NZDSOS The Burnett Foundation (formerly the New Zealand AIDS Foundation) has written an almost hysterical letter to the government about a supposed new infectious threat. MONKEYPOX (MPX) And the government seems to be taking it very seriously. If you listened to Dr Nick Chamberlain on Thursday 4 Aug @21.
A Clear Case of Highly Organised Lying
Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. Perhaps no phrase has been used
Dems Plumb New Depths of Skullduggery
It’s all starting to sound like something out of an old-fashioned banana republic dictatorship. Spying on political opponents, ginning up fake dossiers, weaponising the state bureaucracy to pursue vendettas, dubious elections, show trials and secret police raids. Such is the state of what was once the world’s
Hubris Will Be His Downfall
Pride, as they say, cometh before a fall. And in democracies, governments with absolute power almost inevitably do an Icarus act: overreaching and plummeting into the sea of electoral wipeout. In 2004, the Howard government reached the zenith of its power, winning control of both houses of parliament. It used
This Is What You Get for China’s Money
The ink has barely dried and the pockets barely greased on China’s gibsmedat deal with the Solomon Islands and Beijing’s malign influence is already being felt. Around the world, the Xi regime has been using debt-trap diplomacy and the folly of greedy tinpot panjandrums to buy influence
It’s All Too Much for Little Albo
So, what’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese up to, right now? Well, no one’s really sure. In fact, even his whereabouts are more closely guarded than Clarke Gayford’s, or which local school Jacinda Ardern will be slipping in and out of, for her next photo-op. You see,
Why Medical Mandates Are Still in Place
JL Want to visit your preferred dentist or physiotherapist but, because they remain – after 10 months – mandated, you can’t? You might find this more astonishing when you realise you can, however, still have a sports massage, visit a beautician and hairdresser, partake in aqua aerobics with Gran after picking
Empathy Is Not a Quality of Leadership
Hello, it’s All things Political with John Porter on Bay FM. Empathy is not leadership, but still so many voters believe it is, especially when referring to Jacinda Ardern. There is a certain demographic that still firmly believe that “Jacinda saved us from Covid.” We all know well the
Here We Go Again
democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. If National causes yet another by-election to be held in Tauranga, not only will it cost the taxpayers another unnecessary $1m for the taxpayers after Simon