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What do Henry Jackson and Sam Uffindell have in common? On the surface, not a lot, but Sam Uffindell may well break Henry Jackson’s ignominious record as New Zealand’s shortest serving MP. According to Wikipedia: Henry Arthur Franklin Jackson (1830 – 29 October 1906) was a 19th-century Member
Paul Whiteley University of Essex After studying economics as an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield Paul Whiteley obtained Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of Essex. His first academic post was as lectureship in Politics and Statistics at Kingston Polytechnic in West London before moving to the University
If there’s one thing the bourgeois chattering classes know, it’s that they know better than anyone else. On any given topic, no matter how removed from their experience, the middle-class left’s ruling conceit is that they’re more knowledgeable and wise than anyone else. Hence, we
There’s a lexicon of words that the bought-and-paid-for NZ legacy media have approved for use in relation to Jacinda Ardern and her government. At times, it’s almost as if PIJF funding comes with a literal list of approved adjectives. Suffice to say that “immoral”, “incoherent”
Deborah Cunliffe NFFNZ nursesforfreedomnz.weebly.com/events.html nursesforfreedomnz@gmail.com Dear Colleagues, Supporters and Friends, Historically, nurses are not great at asking for help. Like many Kiwis, we just get on and do what needs to be done. On this occasion, however, we need the support of EVERY concerned
I rather suspect that most BFD readers would be inclined to smile at anything that makes a Guardian journalist weep. But, when the Grauniad is getting worried about Jacinda Ardern’s future, it might not be exactly time to pop the champagne corks — especially not when the likeliest alternative is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Labour insider zealot Shane Te Pou writes regular Labour wonderfulness stories in the NZ Herald. I’m astonished the paper runs them as they’re so nonsensical and predictable. Then again, given the government is a source of so much mug taxpayer revenue in ridiculous
You know you’ve reached a saturation-point of Wokery when even the intersectional voodoo dolls start pulling the pins. Senator Pauline Hanson’s furious reaction to the fatuous “Acknowledgment of Country” at the opening of the most recent Senate might have set heads wagging and brows furrowing on the
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Joe Spencer The topic of co-governance and one person one vote has been in the headlines. A lot of folks seem worried that their future votes will no longer be as potent as their votes once were. Democracy, as they knew it, is beginning to dissolve. There most definitely
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Back in the 1990s, Tony Blair rebranded The British Labour Party as “New Labour”, to try and draw
National’s policy of Welfare That Works announced by Christopher Luxon at the Party Conference has all the hallmarks of a well-thought-out approach. The initial reaction is mainly positive. It is certainly preferable to the current policy of doing nothing. Doing nothing is something which has manifested itself
In a week when the Government is on the ropes in the polls, and every promise they ever made is either an abject failure on delivery or has disastrously produced the opposite of what was intended, the National Party has still managed to show voters that they have tits for
Honestly, the National Party is led by a clown. He seriously instructed an MP under attack by the media not only to do a stand-up but also to talk with all the media he can! Talk about trying to put out a fire with petrol! There are only two
