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Rob Slane theblogmire.com Rob Slane dwells in the Country Formerly Known as Great Britain, now known as The Quagmire. He is married to the very best wife imaginable and so far they have been entrusted with the upbringing of 6 free-range little Slanes. I spent an inordinate amount
I wish I could stop writing posts reporting what the left are doing to normalise paedophilia today. I will when they stop doing it. Until then, I would be derelict in my journalistic duty – shirking from reporting the truth. Because the truth is that, every day, a significant segment of
In recent days, PM Scott Morrison has firmed his stance on opening Australia up and “learning to live with Covid”. Clearly, there is a sense in Canberra, at least, that the Australian public is well and truly ready to move on. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has been forced into an
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First One of the common themes of our recent Forum on the Family is the need to push back on some of the social engineering that is coming at us with increasing regularity. An example happened just in the last couple of days. Many of
Information Satire Sheriff Ardern tied her horse ‘Marx’ to the rail outside the Karangahape Saloon and made her way through the dim light up to the bar. “Barperson, I’ll have a RED-EYE (whisky). Evangelical Morrison has really stuck his didgeridoo in this time. He said I live in
We live in an age which is simultaneously fatuously silly and deadly totalitarian. Aldous Huxley couldn’t have satirised our age, although George Orwell warned where we were headed. There’s perhaps no better avatar of our silly, totalitarian age than a “rainbow police car”. Police are replacing patrol cars
The lengths Labour will go to in order to avoid scrutiny and accountability are quite extraordinary. The National Party will not stand for any more of their antics; the Epidemic Response Committee must be reinstated as soon as possible, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “When Prime Minister Ardern
New Zealand must urgently step up plans to evacuate our Afghan allies from Afghanistan following the deadly terror attack at Kabul’s international airport, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “The Defence Force has ended efforts to evacuate New Zealanders and their families from Afghanistan but there are still
Information Satire I’m not sure which was the tipping point. It might have been this: “Unfortunately there is a very small but very vocal minority of people in New Zealand who are prepared to communicate information that is patently ridiculous,” says Professor Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at Otago University.
The Government should be making it as easy as possible for our pharmacies to become authorised to administer the Covid-19 vaccine, especially while the country is locked down due to a Delta outbreak, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Only 3 per cent of pharmacies in Auckland,
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The pressure and uncertainly placed on small businesses this lockdown has been enormous and the Government needs to do more to offer certainty. Restaurant and cafe owners will be beside themselves wondering whether to order food or not. If the level changes at 3
The Australian PM has hit back at New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern over her continued pursuit of Covid elimination, rather than opening up and “learning to live with” what will become just another seasonal virus. Scott Morrison’s rare attack on his trans-Tasman counterpart (in contrast to the continual
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 The good news is that the government has sought independent advice on Covid Policy. The bad news is that the advice is abysmal. Back in June Associate Minister
Jim Cable Dear Peter Goodfellow I write to you as a longstanding National member who is now completely unhappy with both the state of, and lack of direction of, the Party and its organisation. I’ve been seriously involved with National since Roy Maclennan’s campaign for Nelson in 1969
