The Herald has another story with the usual suspects complaining that Judith Collins cut off the woke research gravy train by requiring funding to go on actual scientific research rather than how to ...

Today China sent its navy into the waters between Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia and commenced military drills. Commercial airliners were redirected mid-flight to avoid the live ammunition being ...

The future of a proposed law that would force Facebook and Google to help fund the New Zealand journalism that contributes to their megabillion-dollar empires appears uncertain, in the wake of Donald ...

More in Common have done some fascinating research on "progressive activists" (what we might call woke activists) in the UK. They are only 8% to 10% of the UK population but dominate the media, the ...

An important speech by Chris Bishop to the Committee for Auckland. Key aspects are: Congestion stifles economic growth in Auckland, with studies showing that it costs between $900 million to $1.3 ...

Rodney Hide has a tale that should be in a Monty Python comedy, but sadly is the reality in too many schools. He wanted to address the school board over his concerns that the relationship and sexual ...

A new submission to the Committee from banking experts Andrew Body and Simon Jensen provides fresh evidence of these costs. Their analysis shows the Reserve Bank’s capital rules add between 0.25 and 0 ...

Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford has written to the charities regulator asking for Destiny Church to be struck off. Around 30 adults and young children had to be barricaded into a room in a library in West Au ...

A post by reader, commenter and sometime poster PaulL. I read many recent comments on the situation and negotiation in Ukraine, including one this morning from our host. I share the concerns about ...

It’s been interesting to read all the repetitive columns predicting Luxon’s demise – either imminently as my friend Matthew Hooton reckons or at the endpoint of a long, slow march to oblivion as my ...

Newsroom has a summary of taxpayer money spent on Mt Ruapehu: 2018 – $10m towards financing the Sky Waka (pre-insolvency) 2020 – $5m for operating expenses (pre-insolvency) November 2022 – $2m loan to ...