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Chris Penk First published by The BFD 7th July 2020 The BFD has serialised National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Today is the final extract. “Instead we can dismiss” Let us finish as we began, observing that it was only supposed
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Christian Toto newsbusters.org The team behind 2014’s Exodus: Gods and Kings had a funny way of promoting the Biblical epic. Director Ridley Scott compared Moses, played in the movie by Christian Bale, to terrorists. “In today’s world, he’d be pursued by missiles and jets and creamed.
You’re a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech … Well, you’ll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day The Dead Kennedys, “Holiday in Cambodia” As Orwell wrote, “All left-wing parties in the highly industrialised countries are at bottom
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT has been saying for weeks that the Government has given up on elimination, this morning on the AM Show Jacinda Ardern finally admitted that is the case. The Prime Minister admitted the Government’s latest plan has only just gone before Cabinet. We wonder if
Dr. Tsilla Hershco besacenter.org Dr. Tsilla Hershco is a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and an expert on French-Israeli relations. She is the author of several books, including Those Who Walk in Darkness Will See the Light: The Jewish Resistance in France, Holocaust
In his novel Night Watch, one of Terry Pratchett’s characters pauses to reflect on the delicate instrument that is even a moderately complex society. “When the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down,”: the life that every citizen takes for
Ted Johnson New Conservative Justice Spokesman New Conservative states that the NZ Labour government’s plans to require vaccinations for employment and access to public and private facilities and amenities is an injust and unnecessary attack on our freedoms. It robs us of our freedom of choice. We have a
Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic. Expo 2020 is a chance to reconsider
Bruce Moon hobsonspledge.nz Bruce Moon is a former member of the staff of the University of Canterbury. He was a member of the Professorial Board with the same status (reader) as an associate professor. Information Opinion “No historian, however detached, works without an ideological framework.” Charles Freeman, “Egypt. Greece
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Three polls in a row, all saying roughly the same thing. The public is tiring of this Labour
The only people who think level 3 is being observed in Auckland must be the Labour Government and its health advisors. The number of hospitalisations and deaths predicted if we loosen up were about the same as the cars that passed me on my 45-minute walk in rural east
