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In a classic case of a tone-deaf civil servant who thinks she knows best, Solicitor-General Una Jagose issued and then retracted a sentencing guidance document that gave Māori a literal get-out-of-jail-free card based entirely on ethnicity.
Winston is on fire as he raises the ire of Te Pāti Māori by highlighting their appalling behaviour.
Tedros has discussed trust and how to get it back – by killing free speech, of course.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see where the debacle called Wellington City Council is headed: they are being lined up for a Commissioner.
1News released their Verian Poll over Monday and Tuesday this week, and it echoes what I have been saying for quite sometime.
Sometimes the speaker connives for his adversaries to be censored. It is like when a business gets the government to shut down competing businesses. It is a form of protectionism or what economists call ‘rent-seeking.’
The move is on. Will Ayesha Verrall make the cut to become the next Labour leader?
Basically because they are bent, biased and no longer relevant. But the academics think it’s because right wingers hate the news.
State coercion never resolves the problems it sets out to address but only gives rise to new and worse problems.
