Uncomfortable Comparisons: If Labour’s Harking Back To 2017, Then It’s Not Looking For A Win.
THERE IS LITTLE to be learned from most of the analyses of the Tauranga By-Election results. Those on the Right…
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Protecting Freedom/Preventing Harm. Can New Zealand’s New Chief Censor Do Both?
IT IS TO BE HOPED that the new Chief Censor, Caroline Flora, will waste no time explaining herself. It…
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Mistrusting The Majority
I BLAME IT on student politics. This strange, behind-the-scenes revolution, currently unfolding with minimal media coverage, but making undeniable progress,…
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The Recession New Zealand Has To Have?
CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC WISDOM insists that the only effective cure for rising inflationary expectations is a short, sharp recession. Easy to…
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MUST READ: Macho chest-beating won’t tame the gangs, but Poto Williams’ “softly, softly” approach just might
THE GROWING CHORUS calling for Poto Williams to be sacked as Police Minister bespeaks a fundamental misreading of her performance….
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Summer Is Coming
THE AMERICANS are doubling down on their commitment to keep the Ukrainian armed forces in the field against the Russians….
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Intriguing Last Words. Remembering Stan Rodger (1940-2022)
STAN RODGER, Minister of Labour, and Minister of State Services in the Fourth Labour Government, died on Sunday, 29 May…
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Let’s Keep New Zealand A Boofhead-Free-Zone.
RICHARD PREBBLE reckons the Aussie election should be read as a harbinger of doom for the Labour Government. It will…
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Kissinger Argues For Peace
WHEN HENRY KISSINGER, at the age of 98, feels impelled to weigh-in on the Russo-Ukrainian War, we should probably listen….
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An Exercise In Basic Accountancy
WHY HAS MAKING such a ridiculously big deal out of the whole Budget exercise persisted? The very notion that the…