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Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. New Zealand is one of the most diverse countries in the world. In virtually every town or city you venture to, every person has a different story, different ancestry and a different take on life. I’m proud to
Russia has blacklisted more Kiwis, including Matthew Hooton and Josie Pagani. David Farrar is pretty annoyed at missing out and so am I. What does one have to do to make it to the Russian black list? Call them Russian Orcs because they are acting like an inhuman horde after
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David Bell brownstone.org David Bell, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician based in the United States. After working in internal medicine and public health in Australia and the UK, he worked in the World Health Organization (WHO), as programme head for malaria and febrile diseases
Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s business division. His work has been featured in the Daily Wire, RealClearPolicy, RealClearEnergy, the Climate Dispatch and the Bongino Report. Wikipedia, a site funded by George Soros, followed the liberal
New Zealand First Media It is said that the “malady of the ignorant is to be ignorant without knowing it”. And so it has emerged in the commentariat of self-appointed experts on the issue of Electoral Law and its requirements in this country. That law of course has been
Nepotism is the practice by those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs. Corruption is dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power. Not a lot of difference between nepotism and corruption, is there? But an article recently published online, if accurate, clearly
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura ESG has been very popular in the corporate world: visit any medium to large business and you can be sure to hear about their ESG credentials. For those unfamiliar with the acronym it stands for Environment, Social and Governance. It is laudable that businesses should
I am going to start with a premise, one most of us here I think can agree upon. The premise is this: the centre-right will win next year’s election because Labour will lose it. I use the premise not just as something we can hopefully agree upon but
Peter C. Earle aier.org Peter C Earle is an economist and writer who joined AIER in 2018. Prior to that he spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area, as well as running
David Farrar has a guest post from Jason Collie, a UK-based Kiwi journalist who has had an interesting, though fruitless, interaction with our Governor-General Cindy Kiro. Grounded Kiwis did a magnificent job winning its court case that the Government breached New Zealanders’ rights by effectively preventing them from
Tom Valovic mercatornet.com Tom Valovic is a journalist and the author of Digital Mythologies (Rutgers University Press), a series of essays that explored emerging social and political issues raised by the advent of the internet. He has served as a consultant to the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Examples of “causal fallacy” are everywhere. One of the earliest examples is of course human sacrifice, of which the War on Drugs is a modern-day variation, that is the belief that sacrificing billions of dollars and countless human lives is somehow preventing a global health crisis (most African Americans
Ethan Aloiai sojournal.co.nz Introduction “The Manly 7” … What a title! How truly fitting, for that is what they are: manly. Courageous men taking a stand on faith and conviction. Holding fast to principles and showing a measure of courage and strength that has sent shock waves around the
Douglas Blair PA Pundits – International Douglas Blair is a news producer for the Daily Signal. He is the co-host of the Daily Signal Podcast at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ Monkeypox seemingly sprung out of nowhere to infect large swathes of the globe, replacing Covid-19 as
