Study Finds BBC ‘Flunks Journalism 101’
BBC management must either take back control of the ship or the British people should demand a refund.
Politics
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How Much Should We Pay Our Pollies?
Most people serving in parliament earn more than they would get elsewhere. That is a powerful influence on their behavior.
Alexis de Tocqueville on Enlightened Self Interest
Tocqueville was generous, both with his biting criticisms and his reverent praises, whereby as a matter of necessity due to one social system springing out of the other – like Athena from the head of Zeus – the democratic experiment was compared most obviously with its aristocratic parent.
NZ Politics Daily: 25 September 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, ENVIRONMENT Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Gas industry boasts about killing proposed ban with lobbying Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Greens vow to revoke new oil and gas permits, but Labour doesn’t appear on board Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Oil and gas exploration ban
No More Shirking from Home
The Government orders people shirking from home back to the office. The wailing and howling from the unions and Labour is hilarious.
The CEO of WWF Is Paid up to a Million Dollars to Save ‘Nature’
Environmental non-profits are corporate conglomerates and political lobby groups masquerading as a charity.
Consider Investing in Government Bonds
Government bonds are designed to be ‘safe’, not complicated, but stick to places run by people like us.
NZ Politics Daily: 24 September 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PUBLIC SERVICE David Farrar: The role of the public service is not to create shoppers Luke Malpass (Post): The WFH public sector party is over (paywalled) RNZ: Government's anti-working from home move a 'total distraction' - union Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff)
The Fall of Constantinople and the Folly of the West
The battle for freedom is here, and it’s now, and we must do what we can. That means we seriously need to look at our immigration policies. We need to wake the hell up, because we are letting the enemy of our hard-won freedoms literally walk in through the front door.
NZ Politics Daily: 23 September 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Derek Cheng (Herald): In the pocket of the gun lobby? Firearms Minister's messages revealed (paywalled) Janet Wilson (Post): Ministers can claim the political win, but democracy is the loser (paywalled) Vernon Small (SST): Luxon’s venting over ‘frickin’ targets’ is a
Tory, Dear, Your Trousers Are Alight
Thick as a brick, stupid to boot and now a proven liar.
Why the Gun Register Will Fail – Part Two
Here is yet another example of why the much-vaunted gun register will fail.
