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How Scotsmen influenced the world Is there a nation on earth whose sons have contributed more to a modern world than Scotland? I ask this after a two week road trip clockwise from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye [...]

Prime Minister Chris Luxon during the election campaign: "You are on another planet if you want to have a conversation about bathrooms and make that an election issue.” That’s me. On another planet.  I want my daughters safe.  And [...]

Very rarely do you get the chance to witness a truly great teacher at work in the classroom. Dr Paul Crowhurst has worked in education for over twenty years — almost as long as I’ve known him — and [...]

Four months ago, I described a speech by Chris Bishop in his capacity as Minister of Housing as perhaps the most important speech given by any Government minister since the election last year. He’s just given another, arguably even [...]

The attempted assassination of Trump should be a moment when the Earth should stop spinning. For America to get back to work as usual in the midst of this type of cynical political malevolence is just utterly obscene.  My [...]

Anyone watching and trying to understand last Sunday’s Q&A where Jack Tame interviewed Debbie Ngarewa-Packer will realise that she seems to be beyond reason. Tame tried to examine bits of her blather and her obvious misuse of words, but [...]

A Call for Unity In the Herald for 7 June 2024 Bruce Cotterill expressed concern at what seemed to be loss of purpose on the part of New Zealand, especially given the fact that when governments change, a lot [...]

Listen to the audio HERE “[I]f angels fight,/ Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.”  -Shakespeare’s Richard the II, spoken just before the King realises that his kingdom has been lost.  Well I’ve never seen a [...]

Listen to the audio HERE At about 10 past 10 on Sunday morning I was in front of the television having my first or maybe second Jed of the day. Hot, strong and black, the way I like my [...]

Listen to the audio HERE It has long been my contention that, well before Wuhan, there was a pandemic occurring that in the end will be more lethal than the Communist Chinese one. A pandemic of infantilism. Arrested development. [...]

The Brits are happy to pay for quality Whatever cost of living crisis Britain is currently undergoing and is predicted to encounter more of under the new and higher-taxing Labour government, it appears the All England Lawn Tennis Club [...]

Ever wondered who or what is constantly trying to block the new Government’s policies? Why is it that announcements by ministers about the economy, educational changes, new health proposals, reducing the runaway numbers of public servants and combating juvenile [...]

Is Labour's spectacular win what it seems? It’s intriguing to arrive in a foreign land on the eve of their General Election. Just why the United Kingdom votes on a Thursday has always been a bit of a mystery [...]

What makes a country great? It’s a timely question to ask, because over the last few weeks, with ferries running aground, air force planes breaking down, and electricity pylons falling over, we’ve all had cause to question whether New [...]

My 13-year-old daughter is a year 9 student at Wakatipu High School.  The School’s Head of Health and Physical Education emailed me explaining an upcoming course on Relationship and Sexuality Education.   The email read as follows: Kia ora Parents/Caregivers, [...]

Listen to the audio HERE I am so old I can remember the televised Kennedy/Nixon presidential debates. I didn't actually see them at the time, but I remember reading about them and being a sufficiently nerdy child to be [...]

The Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Revived Child as he was he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand said: somewhat alarmed at [...]

Senior IT Professional Location: New Zealand About Reality Check Radio Reality Check Radio (RCR) is a media organisation dedicated to delivering balanced news, objective analysis, and fostering rational debate. We aim to influence public opinion, hold politicians and decision-makers [...]

Listen to the audio HERE One would wish Rishi Sunak and his ilk would learn the lesson that pussy-footing, weak-kneed, soft-penised, gutless, lily-livered, spineless, brainless cowardice has no electoral appeal. The world is divided into two types of politician: [...]

An Obituary for Safer Online Services InternetNZ (officially Internet New Zealand Inc., formerly the Internet Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit open membership organisation and the designated manager for the .nz country code top-level Internet domain. It also [...]

Why is a Council flush with funds putting up rates so much? If a business turned over nearly 87 million dollars in annual revenue, returned a 21 million dollar end of year surplus, owned assets worth more than a [...]

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Listen to the audio HERE Last week I played some audio from a pro-freedom demonstration in London attended by tens of thousands of patriots, organised by Tommy Robinson. You heard the patriots jeering some of the most evil enemies [...]

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David Seymour’s pushback against the efficiency and value of the school lunch scheme has aroused the ire of tech entrepreneur and self-confessed Labour sympathiser Sir Ian Taylor. Seymour, after originally wanting to dispense with them completely, now wants school [...]

Historical revisionism has always been an indispensable tool of the cultural-Marxists which they developed into an entire ideology with Critical Theory in the humanities. The goal was to destroy objective truths and objective value judgments, especially the latter. If [...]

“As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.” Those were the words of Albert Einstein, who fled [...]

There was a rather revealing headline in the Herald on Sunday today (12 May).  It read: “One in 8 Auckland homes on [the] market were bought during boom, may now sell for loss”. The first line of text noted [...]

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Web of Chaos revisited In November 2022 I published on my blog an article entitled ‘There’s Something Happening Here’. Among the matters discussed were two documentaries that screen on television. One was the agitprop piece ‘Fire and Fury’. The [...]

Listen to the audio HERE I begin today with a disgusting announcement. It's by Winston Peters, and was called disgusting by Cam Slater, ordinarily a fan of Winston Peters. Here's the announcement: New Zealand will be making its annual [...]

I can’t remember who exactly wrote this salient metaphor about literature, it may well have been Jane Austen:  “Literature is to the heart what ships are to the sea; a means to traverse it, a way to plumb its [...]

The Future of News Media The title for this article is something of a paraphrase of the title of a book by Gabriel Sherman which later became a TV show starring Russell Crowe. The book was entitled ‘The Loudest [...]

The name I supplied above is false, because I still feel very unsafe sharing this information for fear of professional repercussions. (New Zealand Medical Council). With over two decades of medical practice as a vocationally registered general practitioner in New [...]

Professionally employed as a doctor since 1985. Last held a practising certificate in 2011. Have not practised clinical medicine since. Founded and ran a doctor's home visit service from 1998 to 2010, covering the wider Auckland area. Experience includes: Managing [...]

As soon as the borders opened in 2021 my wife and I travelled to Australia to see our daughter and first grandchild. We booked a 3 month return trip back to NZ. During this time the NZ borders were closed [...]

I would like the inquiry to know that I suffered absolute devastation! My sister, Cass (was a teacher), is dead because of the Governments mandates. Cass and her three colleagues and friends, Tracey, Richard and Joep were all killed in [...]

Throughout my story I will share some of the consequences of New Zealand's pandemic response, how I felt at the time and still feel in many cases and my personal cost. Summary 1. In summary this was a time of [...]

My 87 year-old mother died alone during the second big lockdown in a Rest Home in Tauranga. She had spent the last 18 months in full-time care and was 100% reliant on others for everything. Every single day she looked [...]

Senior Registered Nurse & Anaesthetic Technician - terminated from Air Ambulance and Specialist Theatre Anaesthetic support role despite having indicated I would accept Novavax (due in just 2 months' time). Local DHB acknowledged this and were required to enforce mandatory [...]

I lost my job due to mandates enforced by the government, I wouldn't get a vaccine due to my health condition, which I am still waiting to be diagnosed for, I have serious food allergies and I do now have [...]

There was enough evidence in 2020 to show that the NZ covid response was excessive and unwarranted. Reasons detailed in my submission (1) to repeal the Covid19 Act in August 2020 remain valid today. Effectively, there was no pandemic, and [...]

The previous government's covid measures have completely changed my life. I am no longer the person I was before 2020. I no longer enjoy life as before, I merely survive from day to day. I have far less hope for [...]

My wife and I live in Featherston. I have five children all vaccinated my wife has two both vaccinated. My wife's eldest son is non-verbal and severely physically, and mentally handicapped, my wife is his Legal Guardian and I support [...]

The COVID-19 enquiry - where do I start on this? The negative effects of the lockdowns over the 2020 to 2022 will be long lasting for many people in this country. None of the rules of lockdowns or mandates made [...]