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Warning Long read: 1851 words Information Humour They say that Nobody Ever Expects the Spanish Inquisition, and that may well be so but surely by now our beloved Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern must be starting to realise that You Should ALWAYS Expect the Queenstown Inquisition! Following on from our (jolly
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. “There is a threat posed
On Saturday I wrote about the wrongness of Michael Baker and posited that if this functional idiot pulled his head out of his back passage, he’d see what was happening around the world and how it shouldn’t be a surprise to see what is coming to New Zealand
Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly what is happening. In an interview on CNN’s State of The Union, anchor Dana Bash asked DHS [United States Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro
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 Chris Trotter. The Facts Don’t Matter Explaining the loss of public trust and confidence in the mainstream news
We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are two signed, hardback copies of Nudged into Lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 by BFD author Ananish Chaudhuri. Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on
On his first week back on the campaign trail after catching Covid, Anthony Albanese has stumbled yet again, fluffing questions from journalists. This time, though, it wasn’t a “gotcha” on economic figures, it was a Dorothy Dixer on one of Labor’s signature policies. Trying to capitalise on its
Claire Breen University of Waikato Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. While the recent legal challenges to elements of the government’s COVID-19 response have
Whatever happened to Afghanistan… again? Remember when Afghanistan dominated the headlines, a whole 20 years ago. Then it made its Elvis-like comeback — only to flash and fade again from the Western media consciousness. If Vietnam was the “television war”, Afghanistan was the war television forgot — twice. The Western media
Visiting Wonderland 1967 A “time of famines” is predicted, and by 1975 the world will not have enough food to feed its growing population. 1969 By the year 1989 everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue smoke due to population growth and contamination of the planet. 1970 We are
familyfirst.org.nz It was once a kiwi habit to sit together as a family and watch the evening news. We trusted our news media. But now, in a time when we desperately need a media we can trust, the latest Curia Market Research poll finds the vast majority of
Dave Witherow Dave Witherow, who was a long time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author and script writer, and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Information Opinion About three times a week I turn on
Newshub have been running a story that New Zealand may be over-counting deaths, and their rent-a-mouth, the Chicken Little of the talking head scientists, Michael Baker, thinks that the rest of the world is undercounting. Not yet we don’t, just wait. New Zealand is running six
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
What absolute twaddle! Of course, my net worth is not zero! I have assets such as: A Healthy Bank Account. Well, just make sure that you do not donate any money to a cause the government then decides it does not like. Look what happened to those who legally donated
