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Chris Penk First published by The BFD 20th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. None of your business Perhaps the most telling remark on either side of the argument about the lockdown’s length came
We all know that Jacinda Ardern is a dissembler. Her favourite tactic, when faced with tough questioning, is to waffle on with meaningless babble, jargon and most importantly focus-grouped slogans to push her agenda. When that fails she turns to ridicule of the questioner or labelling such questioning as
Today’s face of the day shares the suicide statistics that he says have been suppressed. The number of attempted suicides by children will shock you. “Lockdown is killing our kids”.
Jack Elbaum fee.org Jack Elbaum is a Hazlitt Writing Fellow at FEE and an incoming sophomore at George Washington University. His writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Post, and the Washington Examiner. Those who promote government intervention in the economy often have
There is no hard evidence any of the participants in the Mongrel Mob methamphetamine pilot had actually used the drug at all, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. “The Mob-led pilot – ‘Hawke’s Bay Chaindog Community Methamphetamine Rehabilitation Initiative – Kahukura’ – was described by the Prime Minister as
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Cletus Information Satire ‘Twas a gloomy day in Wellington. The sun hidden behind thick clouds while heavy rain blew violently across deserted streets. A silver BMW pulled away from the Labour party headquarters, two passengers obscured from view by darkened windowpanes. In the back of the car the mood was
The polls that were reported this week got Stuff into speculation mode (yet again) about National’s leadership and about how the Greens and Labour appeal to women more than men. This was then followed by an attack on Judith Collins from National’s former media trainer, Janet Wilson. On
Harry Hunt Our politics is fundamentally broken. The left-right divide is blurred. People are politically aggressive, politics has become a personality trait and opinions have become facts. Democracy is fading before our eyes. Over this lockdown I found myself with a plethora of books that I had bought before
In politics to avoid answering a question, a politician will divert, dodge and evade a simple yes or no answer to sidestep the question. Further plunges into alert level 4 are unlikely if New Zealand’s vaccination rate surpasses 90 per cent, says Health Minister Andrew Little. […] “The number of
If you thought the Chinese were miffed at the AUKUS alliance, they’ve got nothing on the French. Nobody throws a hissy-fit quite like the French. Gallic displays of outraged hauteur are almost as legendary as France’s ability to run up the white flag. So, when Australia said
Michael Rectenwald mises.org Michael Rectenwald is the author of eleven books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016), and others. It is neither Red Scare hyperbole nor misplaced attribution to say that the covid regime established in
