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Remember when you were a kid, and your mum asked: if your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? The green-left would already be hurtling down the precipice before they stopped to say “Yes!” Germany jumped off the “renewable” cliff, long ago, with Britain at their
It’s an old joke that “If the left didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any” — but it’s also a truism. One that too many conservative leaders have refused to learn to their peril. And serves them right. Just ask Boris Johnson. Does anyone really think
The story of patients waiting hours outside in a leaking tent in the middle of winter is appalling and shows a sector in crisis, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Sick or injured New Zealanders deserve to wait inside an emergency department, not in a makeshift campground in
Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org Hong Kong Free Press is an English language news source seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs. Free of charge and completely independent, HKFP arrived amid rising concerns over declining press freedom in Hong Kong and during an important time in
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s decision not to use the red setting of the traffic light system confirms what ACT has been saying for months about the traffic light system, it is redundant and should be dumped. The traffic light system started out as a matrix of masking,
Kainga Ora has never applied to cancel a tenancy on the grounds of bad behaviour despite promising to do so earlier this year, National’s Housing spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Kainga Ora has continued its entirely apathetic approach regarding the neighbours of their unruly and antisocial tenants. “My inbox is
I’m pretty sure Thomas Sowell doesn’t know everything — but what he doesn’t know about certain topics probably isn’t worth knowing. Especially economics. Sowell’s Basic Economics is foundational reading. In it, he devotes an entire chapter to examining the fallacies of government interference in the housing
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Truancy is so out of control and our education culture is so poor principals are admitting to literally watching kids skateboard past school on their way to bunk off, we need real change to keep Kiwi kids in school. Today RNZ reported a principal talking
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science What is in the pipeline? Yet another scary variant by the looks. XE (does it rhyme with sexy?) is making ripples in the mainstream media. There’s an XD and XF as well, but they don’t sound as good. It’s a
In 1996 I arrived in Hong Kong. There I worked in various capacities including factory inspections within a territory ranging from Japan across to India and down to New Zealand. Over a decade I probably performed over 300 factory inspections: checking all sorts of things – health, safety, employee age, remuneration,
July 13th, 2022. In the 2014 referendum, there were 3.6 million registered voters in Scotland including 100,000 16- and 17-year-olds. 71% of these voted for independence. All residents of Scotland who were registered voters (which included foreign nationals) were allowed to vote. Excluded were 795,000
July 12th, 2022. The fight is on, not just for the election of the leader of the Conservative party, but for the heart and soul of the party. Will they promote a small government country, with low taxes and low public expenditure albeit it with a social conscience? Or will
Information Opinion There are very few occasions in history when you can pinpoint a precise moment when significant changes took place. For well over a century New Zealand had been an affluent, rather pleasant nation at the edge of the British empire. Our standard of living had always been quite
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Government, panicking at the huge volume of cash reportedly flowing into the National Party’s coffers, have proposed dropping the amount at which individual donors must be named to a ridiculous $5,000. Presumably they believe this will deter some donors and they may
