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It’s time for truth telling in Glasgow. The coming northern winter will confirm the first energy truth – that wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles will not keep people warm and well fed. The soaring demand for hydrocarbon fuels, the coming electricity blackouts and rationing, and bare grocery shelves will
For two years, Australians have been lectured, brow-beaten, and finger-wagged by “experts”. Most significantly, they’ve had their most basic freedoms rudely stripped away on the advice of the same experts. Before that, it was years of “expert” foghorning on everything from climate change to sugar. Now the
Dr Peter Ridd has lost his High Court challenge to his sacking by James Cook University. But the scientist has every justification for stating that he has “lost the battle but will continue the war”. It might even be said that he has ensured his final victory. On the other
The Red Queen featured in worldwide news last Monday when The New York Times reported that Ardern had finally ‘Given up the Ghost’ on her ‘Elimination Strategy’ for Covid 19. Similar reports appeared in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The ‘Fairy Princess’ had to leave the ball early or
As Australian student Drew Pavlou found out the hard way, the Chinese Communist Party’s reach on university campuses is deep and disturbing. Pavlou came to prominence when, in retaliation for his organising pro-Hong Kong protests at the University of Queensland, the university tried to suspend him – apparently at
Chris Hipkins If you haven’t yet made plans for Super Saturday, there’s still time to get involved (even if you’ve had your two shots!) and help New Zealand get vaccinated. If you missed the news, tomorrow’s Super Saturday event is taking place right around the country
Authoritarian states are alarmingly easy to slip into, much harder to dig out of. Freedom is a fragile thing. As Wendell Phillips said, Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. One of the tried-and-tested methods of stealing power
Intensive care unit occupancy rates in district health board areas with large Maori populations were at capacity even before Covid and the current Delta outbreak, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. This is yet more evidence of very slim ICU margins that we have at the moment and
Simon Watts Spokesperson for National’s Auckland MPs We, the National Party MPs for Auckland electorates, are calling on the Government to accept National’s offer of our comprehensive strategy to get New Zealand through these unprecedented times. We like to believe that every MP enters Parliament with an earnest
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand’s biggest party pooper, it’s time for her to cut the events industry some slack before they give up and stop organising things. • Christmas in the Park = Cancelled • Bay Dreams = Cancelled • Wellington Marathon = Cancelled • Canterbury A&P Show = Cancelled
Dear Editor So the Maori activists want to lock us all up at Level 4 again – and are using the NZ Herald to achieve it! The front page in today’s (Oct 15) Herald features a photo of Rawiri Taonui. It refers to him as a “health analyst.” “We’ve
