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March 27th, 2022. Well, the Chancellor had his spring economic statement last week, which was a complete waste of time. He confirmed the rise in National Insurance from 11% to 12.5% which is portrayed as a 1.5% rise. In actual fact, it is a 10% increase in the
“At all times the Party is in possession of absolute truth […] Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth” — George Orwell, “1984” What is truth? That’s something that philosophers have argued over for millennia — and we’re still no further to settling it. But, apart from some
Einstein mused that stupidity was the most plentiful thing in the universe, but I’d suggest that hypocrisy is not far behind. Case in point: the tub-thumping, chest-beating outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Judging by the cacophony of outraged screeching that greeted Russian ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky’
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The Government has taken a major step backwards by re-introducing 1890s style compulsory unionism. The Government’s so-called ‘Fair Pay Agreements’ Bill amounts to unionism by stealth and will simply make it tougher for business who are already doing it tough. Labour
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The ACT Party welcomes National Leader Christopher Luxon saying he wants a conversation about co-governance. We put it to him that a referendum is a conversation where ordinary people get a say. You can’t solve problems by ignoring them. Luxon says he shares
NZDSOS NZ Doctors Speaking Out with Science We are currently at the peak of the biggest outbreak of COVID-19 since the pandemic began two years ago. As can be seen by the Ministry of Health image below. Over the weekend, mainstream media reported New Zealand’s deadliest day with
Capitalist Yesterday would have been the 100th birthday of a former Australian Senator called Neville Bonner who represented Queensland in the Senate for around 12 years. He was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Parliament, replacing the first woman to represent Queensland in Parliament. He was a conservative representing
Racism — is there anything it can’t explain? As Theodore Dalrymple has written, so-called “anti-racists” are obsessed with race. “Every event or social phenomenon” is “a manifestation of racism”, even when alternative explanations are obvious. If whites flee suburbs and pull their children from schools with a high
Volodymyr Zelensky with his pithy one-liners seems to be more Bruce Willis than Bruce Willis from the Die Hard films. When asked by Biden if he wanted to escape from Ukraine, his comment was, “I don’t need a lift, I need some weapons.” Bruce Willis played the part
Patriotism might once have been the last refuge of a scoundrel, but these days, “victimhood” is the first refuge of the ugly, the vile, and the depraved. Get caught waving your wang at little girls at the spa? Cry that you’re a victim of “transphobia”. Rape a boy at
Rachel Pistol mercatornet.com Rachel Pistol is a historian and digital humanist on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, based at King’s College London, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include 20th century British and American history, with a particular focus on Second
On the 23rd of March 2022, New Zealand’s Tyrant Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed the nation via her usual ‘Podium of Truth’: a propaganda vessel that she has been happy to captain since she announced the initial responses to the unfolding Covid ‘pandemic‘ back in early 2020. At this
During my travels around the world working in countries with various systems of government, it became apparent that in countries with conflict zones there has been a rise in “Ethnic Entrepreneurs” (EE). Contrary to logic, these aren’t people from an ethnic minority who have become business people and entrepreneurs
In itself, the pandemic did not cause inflation, but the corresponding supply chain problems certainly contributed. Remember the Ever Given, the ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal for 6 days, wedged across the waterway like a giant log one year ago? This is generally seen as the start
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Warning Long read. 2087 words. My local supermarket plays a recorded announcement every 10 minutes or so which literally begins with “Our number one priority is keeping the community safe” (or very similar words to that effect). Call me old-fashioned but I thought the
