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July 4th, 2021. In Taunton, Somerset, in a spirit of inclusivity and in acknowledgement of LGBT etc, the local council laid a multi-coloured 62-metre riverside path. A local arts movement said that “The rainbow footpath will signal to both visitors and the community that Taunton is making considerable
The most constant feature of the Chinese virus pandemic, aside from the lies and power-grubbing hysteria, is the utter hypocrisy of the elite. David Clark breaking lockdown to get in a run on the beach. Prof. Neil Ferguson breaking lockdown to get into someone else’s wife. Bureaucrats shutting
John Redwood johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non executive chairman of a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Green Party’s Environment spokesperson Eugenie Sage entertained readers enormously with a guest-piece in the New Zealand Herald. Here’s a sample. “In a Maori world view, the relationships between all living things are the basis of a profound respect for and connection
Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson The ACT Party will today turn off the lights in solidarity with the Restaurant Association who are suffering from a dire skills shortage. The Hospitality Industry has been hit harder than most by COVID-19. Restaurants were forced to close or restrict numbers as
Taxpayers Union Louis Houlbrooke The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s proposal to remove local democratic control over water assets and says that regional cross subsidisation is a recipe for gold plating and higher costs. The claim this will save ratepayer money is laughable. It will
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Taxpayers Union Louis Houlbrooke When Porirua City Council announced it was adopting a “Living Wage” policy, it sold the idea to ratepayers as a way to help workers on the bottom rung, just enough for them ‘to live a life of dignity’. But we have now revealed that for every
The Government’s sheer incompetence on rolling out saliva testing is staggering, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “In September last year the Government’s expert advisors told it to introduce saliva testing as soon as possible. Saliva testing is still a form of PCR testing, but
Simon Court ACT Transport spokesperson The Transport Minister has admitted that more than 100,000 New Zealanders could be hit with his car tax next year. In answer to questions from the ACT Party, Michael Wood said between 74,600 and 107,400 vehicles would face the tax next year.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is clearly itching to sign New Zealand up to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. Ardern witters that the notorious scheme “has really evolved”, while Trade Minister David Parker urges New Zealand to “get on board”. All those billions of glittering yuan from Beijing are apparently
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The Prime Minister has seriously miscalculated the popularity of her
A deeply cynical, secretive, dishonest and treacherous bunch of fellow travellers are this mob in power, epitomised by Jacinda Ardern. She leads the most deceitful New Zealand government in the last fifty years. It’s a travelling caravan of the craven with nobody prepared to talk outside the tent and
I have taken to reading The Spectator Australia and The Telegraph in the UK recently, as they produce decent journalism that is well researched, well written and thought-provoking without being inherently biased. The Telegraph attacks members on both sides of the political divide roughly equally, while The Spectator attacks
Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party was elected in 2017, and again in 2020, ostensibly because they promised to fix the housing market. They claimed that Kiwibuild was a policy which would build 100,000 homes, or 10,000 each year for ten years. They also claimed that their policies would
