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When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pontificated to the world that, “Canada will… stand against authoritarianism”, it was astonishing that he managed to keep a straight face. After all, this was the same PM who, barely a week earlier, was not just arresting and detaining hundreds of Canadian citizens without
Kevin Bird NZ’s democratic system is built around party politics. Historically each party was formed because of a weakness or problem in society. A new party would be formed or voted into power because the public felt that a change was necessary. This worked for a long time but
The armchair historians and pundits who pullulate the comments sections of the legacy media love to prattle that we are re-living the opening moves of WWII. But, then, they always do. Everybody is You-Know-Who and everything is the curtain-raiser to WWIII. Change the record, people: we’
Capitalist Many moons ago, when but a stripling of 18, I first moved to Auckland and found a flat in Glendowie; a week later Sir Robert Muldoon retired and the Tamaki by-election ensued. This caused me and 35,000 other Tamaki electorate residents no end of annoyance. I was
We recently travelled from the West Coast (Westport) to Christchurch for a friend’s wedding. It is a few years since I had been to Christchurch, and the bride and groom had a lot of guests coming from out-of-town, so they approached a local hotel and provisionally reserved
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 New Zealand has unravelled. The values and knowledge that underpin a free and prosperous society have been turned inside out, upside down and trashed. It has happened overnight
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Labour’s poll fortunes have taken a dramatic and precipitous fall in recent polls, the latest being the Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll. Labour has slumped 6.1 points and is now essentially neck and neck with National, who also slumped a little in this poll. PartySupportChange from last monthLabour36.2%
A tale of the motorcyclists’ revolt against a by-law of the then Auckland City Traffic Department that proved that civil disobedience can be a powerful tool. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would
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Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.” Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is over. Even the green cheer squad in the bureaucracy and the media can sense the change. The sudden end was signalled by rolling columns of Russian tanks,
In case it wasn’t clear enough already, Big Tech isn’t even bothering to pretend any more: it has never been about “hate speech”, only censorship. What I’m talking about is the ever-tightening noose of “Community Standards”. Far from “protecting” anyone from “hate speech”, the rules are
With Auckland past the peak of Omicron and the rest of New Zealand approaching that point, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon and Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop say the Government should take immediate steps to get New Zealand back to normality. “Life has been tough for Kiwis these past couple
I often suspect that the reason so many feminists think all men are “toxic” and “rapists” is that they judge all men by the odious creeps they associate with. And the reason the left think all politicians are bullies is because they similarly judge everyone by their own low standard.
