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Breaking! Trump Is Running in 2024!
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Official Secrets Act: Home Secretary’s Planned Reform Will Make Criminals Out of Journalists
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Cardiff University Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is the author of three books, Disasters and the Media (Peter Lang, 2012; co-authored with Mervi Pantti and Simon Cottle), Journalists and the Public (Hampton Press, 2007) and Citizens or Consumers? (Open University Press, 2005; co-authored with Justin Lewis and
China’s Move to Curfew Young Gamers
In Orwell’s 1984, the telescreen is a device which not only blasts non-stop propaganda, it allows the Party to monitor its members, all day, every day. For instance, when Winston Smith fails to join in the prescribed exercises properly, the instructor’s voice blares from the screen: “6079
Universities: A Closed Shop for Closed Minds
More than any other prime minister, Robert Menzies was responsible for putting Australia on the higher education map. Under Menzies, Australia’s universities tripled, and enrolments skyrocketed. True to Menzies’ word that “a university education is not, and certainly should not be, the perquisite of a privileged few,” and “finance
Knowingly Promoting a Serious Fraud
John Rofe Information Opinion Dear politicians, law enforcement agencies and members of the media, In my advice of 17 July 2021 I attached a 2018 letter from the Minister for Climate Change which reads like a draft mens rea defence against my then supposed allegations of fraud. My letter of
How Did Ardern Determine the Success of Mob Pilot?
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern needs to clarify just how she measured the success of her Government’s Kahukura Mongrel Mob rehab pilot, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Labour have been quick to claim that the pilot programme of the Mongrel Mob meth rehab programme had a ‘100 per
Danger for the Labour Government
Bryce Edwards Political Roundup Writing in Stuff newspapers yesterday, centre-right political commentator Ben Thomas asks how much impact the protests will have on the Labour Government: “The demonstrations, in themselves, will not cause the Beehive undue worry. The makeup of the protests (however well attended) suggested few disgruntled Labour
White Privilege Training Should Be Rejected
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party is calling on teachers and Ministry of Education staff who feel uncomfortable being forced into Critical Race Theory training to reject it. ACT revealed yesterday that more than half of Education Ministry staff have been through a course called ‘Courageous Conversations about
Government Inaction Putting Children at Risk
The Ministry of Social Development has only just begun ‘scoping’ an information-sharing arrangement with Police to improve outcomes for Kiwis in emergency housing, despite already having the information it needs, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “For months we’ve heard police report incidents of
More Horrors of COVID
22nd July 2021 Following on from previous pieces on Covid in Myanmar, we see how the people of Myanmar have to be creative in transporting and disposing of bodies. It really is getting beyond surreal in Myanmar. All this is happening in the monsoon, which makes everything difficult and uncomfortable.
A Double Case of Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Both the Police Minister and the Commissioner appear either to have lost touch with reality or to be in denial. In fact this accusation could be made across the whole of government. They have lost touch because of their inability to deal with reality. Both the Minister and the Commissioner
The Seriousness of the Rural Revolt
Bryce Edwards Political Roundup It’s nearly a week since the “Howl of a Protest” took place throughout the country, and we’re still talking about the rural revolt. What are the farmers’ concerns? Are they legitimate? Has the rural-urban divide become too deep, and will any of this
Crazy Taxes
When we were talking about Capital Gains Tax a few years ago, I was told by a tax specialist that there would never be enough tax revenue from the sale of only non-owner-occupied property, and that, at some point, after CGT had been introduced, it would be extended