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Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants I know I promised to hold off until the 10th but things are happening fast. Within the schools staffing/establishment: * We are signing with a Mt Hobson Academy Associate Principal who will have full oversight of the Connected (Online) nationwide programme. She is a brilliant
The Prime Minister had the gall to offer up on Christmas day, what can only be described as a limp and pathetic, even desperate attempt to persuade and convince us that she’s “one of us”, by deciding to prostrate herself on the altar of domestic and kitchen realism, with
BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2021. All we want for 2022 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely
Richard Hume The premise behind the vaccine mandates (and indeed all Covid restrictions) is that they are temporary risk-based measures to protect public safety. Yet when I look around New Zealand, I see very little correlation between the measures imposed by entities, relative to the level of risk presented
Guy Hatchard thebuzz.nz Guy Hatchard PhD has a background in statistical analysis and was a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global safety testing and certification company. **This article has been republished. It is one of the most popular articles from 2021. A document released by Pfizer, apparently as
The PM’s pavlova was reviewed by David Seymour on his social media platforms. Seymour slams PM’s pavlova tactics “Seymour didn’t miss a beat, taking the opportunity to have his own crack at the Government’s response this year, resharing the post to his social media platforms with
First of all, I must apologise for a very belated season’s greetings. I have spent the last ten days in splendid isolation with my family but without internet connection, TV and rather questionable radio reception. It was bliss. On the odd occasion when we ventured into town we found
Margaret Menge thecentersquare.com The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people. “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at
BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2021. All we want for 2022 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely
In another decade, 2021 will be remembered as a momentous year for reasons other than covid, namely the biggest change to councils in a generation. Incredibly, I am not talking about the race relations divide of the Three Waters reform, which will have massive consequences. There was an even bigger
**This article has been republished. It is one of the most popular articles from 2021. Watch as a Police Officer assaults a man in his car for the ‘crime’ of shopping with his partner: This is just insane. This Police officer stopped these people because they went into a supermarket
Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom When the Prime Minister claimed in her first term that her government was going to be “transformational”
John Rofe “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell Dear Politicians, I wish you and your family and friends each a Happy New Year. On the 23rd of December 2021, I sent you a warning
