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It looks like I was right, just a few years ahead of myself. It was four years ago that I predicted that Jacinda Ardern’s career would follow a similar path to Kevin Rudd’s: a skyrocket burst of sky-high opinion polls, followed by ignominious collapse amid a concatenation
Information Opinion There is a very stark contrast between the fortunes of Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern at the moment. Both are prime ministers who started well but ended up being caught out by lies and deception of which they were both guilty. Boris has had a fairly rough year
As Jacinda Ardern continues to try and dance along a barbed-wire fence with a leg in each paddock, the rip in her undies is getting harder to hide. Ardern and her Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta have spent the last few years playing an increasingly threadbare game of bowing first
July 7th, 2022. I started work this morning, went to get a coffee and when I came back at 9 am Boris Johnson had gone! Or had he? It was reported that he was to resign today but (and there’s always a but where Johnson is concerned) “to ensure
Originally published at The Facts and republished with permission. Two key Questions: 1. Is the 5% party vote threshold set at the right level? 2. Should we introduce STV (Single Transferable Voting) so that if your first choice doesn’t get in, your second or third choice still counts? Explanation
Who knew that Maori astrology, horoscopes and quackery could solve your mental health issues? I certainly didn’t until Newshub ran a deadly serious article explaining that such mumbo-jumbo and hocus-pocus can indeed solve a multitude of health problems. Maori are well known for using the stars and
New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Existing government measures won’t stop one of our fastest-growing sectors moving to Australia.“Existing government policies won’t stop New Zealand gaming and interactive media companies from choosing to expand in Australia instead of New Zealand,” New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA)
A senior Australian politician has urged Anthony Albanese’s government not to “capitulate to the demands of Jacinda Ardern” over 501 deportations, foreshadowing the domestic political battle Labor may face if it makes tweaks to the controversial policy. Newshub Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would
British politics is a brutal business at times. In this respect it differs somewhat from New Zealand where most politicians are amateurish and ‘small potatoes’. Attempts by NZ politicians to appear ‘big time’ are simply embarrassing. Examples include Bill Rowling’s regular falsetto declarations of “I’m in charge”, or
WWII hero, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, astutely observed that the worst calamities of the 20th century — Communism, Fascism and Nazism — were all made in Europe. And they were all defeated from outside Europe. But if he thought that Europe was done inflicting ideologically-driven calamity on the rest of the
My, my, how the tables turn… was it really only just a few months ago that opposition leader Anthony Albanese was sitting smugly on the sidelines, sniping at Prime Minister Scott Morrison for being overseas during a disaster, and only returning to stage photo opportunities in the disaster area? Remember
Michal Pruski mercatornet.com Dr Michal Pruski is a Clinical Scientist at the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and a DClinSci candidate in Health Informatics at the University of Manchester (UK). He is academically trained in both basic and clinical physiology as well as in bioethics. After the US
July 6th, 2022. I was going to write this letter yesterday as more facts came out about Boris Johnson and his lack of integrity. Then came the resignations of the Chancellor, Richi Sunak and the Health minister Sajid Javid. Members of his party and even retired senior civil servants appeared
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments When I was Minister of Health in the 1980s I warmed to a suggestion from a Maori colleague
