John Minto

It’s a mixed blessing to see ACT leader David Seymour agreeing with me but he is right to oppose mandatory vaccination for people who are able to show they are free of covid 19.

The death of former South African President F W de Klerk marks the passing of an era.

It’s worrying, but probably inevitable, that yesterday’s protest at parliament should have ended as a fizzer. It was a mishmash of people and organisations focused on a wide variety of concerns re Covid 19 and government decisions.

To all organisations which signed the State House Building Coalition letter to Housing Minister Megan Woods: Kia ora koutou, Yesterday…

COP26 was a failure long before the first invitation was sent out and each day the charade goes on the clearer this becomes.

I am strongly opposed to the government making vaccination mandatory for workers in any setting.

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has written to the Minister of Foreign Affairs this afternoon urging Nanaia Mahuta to speak out and condemn outright Israel’s declaration of six Palestinian Human Rights organisations as “terrorist organisations”.

Political co-operation across New Zealand politics is usually in short supply. Labour and National usually reserve bi-partisan support for what they call “national security” – like voting together to increase the powers of our spy agencies, the Security Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Security Bureau.

Jonas Salk led a team for six years at the University of Pittsburg to come up with a vaccine for…