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Labour Plays the Politics of Aspersion
This is where the Politics of Aspersion have led us. No wonder Winston Peters held his head in his hands as Brooke van Velden read out Vance’s words on the floor of the House.
Pay Equity: Polls up or Balls Up?
With one week to go until the next budget, the coalition appears to have gained some momentum while their polling numbers improve. The challenge for Nicola Willis is to ensure the numbers in the books do the same next week.
Who Controls Your Mind?
The lesson is straightforward: if you cannot break your conditioning about forbidden words, then you aren’t really free. You belong to power.
Yes, Border Control Is Absolutely Moral
Border control is not only moral, it’s absolutely imperative.
Red Pill, Blue Pills and the Matrix That Is Capitalism
So many right-wingers continue to make the same, fundamental, category error. They truly believe that the people winning all the battles are communists. Even when they’re capitalists.
Why Does the Left Keep Winning?
The first vision that accepts humans for what they are – and allows them to be happy as they are – will win the future.
The Trump Blame Game
To prepare you for such an eventuality and smooth your path to social success, I have set out the rules to the game. Drink should be taken of the alcoholic sort: the better to enable participants to vent their anti-Trump animus free of sober restraint.
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Is This the End of the ‘Moderates’? [Updated]
The lesson for the coalition should be obvious – but will they listen?
We Need Adults in the Room
NZ will not move towards a new economic dispensation unless it is convinced the politicians offering it are serious, responsible and competent individuals. Men and women who know what men and women are and refuse to divide their fellow citizens along ethnic lines.
How To Destroy Wokeness Forever
Everyone has an ‘I am’. It’s time to figure out what that is for you – and defeat wokeness forever.
Hopes for a New Pope
There are 1.4 billion of us Catholics and unlike the world’s Muslims, our doctrines, religious practices and moral priorities are theoretically decided by one man.
Is It All Just Your Fevered Imagination?
Or is the left really trying to normalise paedophilia – again?
Why Winston’s Right and Corin’s Wrong
More interviews of the sort broadcast by RNZ on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, and it’s a pretty safe bet that JMAD’s 2026 survey will be delivering even worse news.
NZ First Is Distracted
I’d prefer the government spend the next 18 months getting its books in order, reducing spending and borrowing and slashing bloody regulations!
Why Do Catholics Ignore the Internet?
It’s also never been easier for the Vatican to control politics using the internet.