Real Good Oil

On Sending Them Home

Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.

I Expect Hanson’s Bubble To Burst

While the rapidly changing and unprecedented fortunes of One Nation make for exciting politics, there are still plenty of opportunities for this support to dissipate.

Now for the (Other) Epstein Files

There is a conspiracy operating here, but it’s not a new one: it’s the attempt by powerful men to hide from their wives, and the world, what they like doing with powerless young women.

On the Right Side

By announcing an inquiry into the Reserve Bank’s handling of monetary policy in the time of Covid, Nicola Willis has come up with potentially highly effective solution to National’s electoral problems.

Willis’ Idea for a Reserve Bank Review

Willis is desperately clueless. If she cannot predict the effect of the Reserve Bank freezing OCR while dumping tens of billions of dollars into the economy, without holding a review, then she doesn’t deserve a second term as finance minister.

Epstein and the Currency of the Overworld

Proof of Power

Power requires victims. Without victims there is no proof of power.

But Wait, There’s More

The threat of virtue-legislating.

Routes or Roots? Housing Market Truths From a 10-Year-Old

She could see the insanity of the juxtaposition in which we are promised property ownership, but we are treated like nomads.

A Sober Analysis of the Indian Free Trade Deal

I reckon Luxon was hustled by some New Delhi sharpies. Turning on the same oily charm my local dairy owner uses to try and sell me two-year-old chicken soup.

This Is a Diabolical Manifesto

That’s the problem with the Devil’s great ideas – they’re the Devil’s great ideas.

It Is Time To Leave the Simulation

The basic human infrastructure required to do anything – discipline – has been quietly but purposefully removed over the last 100 years. Your enemies knew exactly what they were doing.