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By Kit Knightly A few days ago we published an article discussing how the Great Reset agenda is still moving forward behind the scenes, while the headlines are full of Israel-Palestine. But it’s also true that, in its thirteen [...]

Prime Minister or Chief Restructuring Officer — only time will tell. By Thomas Cranmer, a.k.a. Philip Crump On Saturday New Zealand elected its 42nd Prime Minister, or did it?  Only time will tell, but quite possibly the country has, [...]

By Cam Slater In New Zealand politics, some alliances may seem unlikely at first glance. A case in point is the dilemma National faces right now. There has been plenty of animus between National and Winston Peters, with 30 [...]

In the lead-up to the 2023 General Election, RCR has conducted over 200 political interviews. RCR has conducted over 200 interviews relating to local, national and international politics, including over 150 concerning our 2023 general election. In keeping with [...]

By Ananish Chaudhuri In a recent article in the New Zealand Medical Journal, Michael  Baker and his co-authors claim that New Zealand saved at least 20,000 lives from Covid death. This article has received a fair amount of media [...]

By Chris Trotter GUYON ESPINER AND ANDREA VANCE kept casting glances towards Ruth Richardson, much as they would towards a batty old aunt. Indisputably, there was something deeply eccentric about Richardson’s performance on Saturday’s Newshub Nation. But, there was [...]

Alex Holland 27 Sept 2023 In 2017 when Labour came to power, crown spending was $76 billion per year. Now in 2023 it is $139 billion per year, which equates to a $63 billion annual increase (over $1 billion [...]

Voting Green would be a disaster for them and the country By Peter Williams This post comes from the other side of the world, the country which — as a hotel receptionist reminded us a couple of days ago [...]

Random thoughts after a week away By Peter Williams London in the autumn is decidedly pleasant. Despite almost annual trips to the British capital from the late nineties till the onset of Covid, I don’t think I’ve been here [...]

Alex Holland 15 Sept 2023 Race based special treatment rather than treatment based on need (for any ethnicity) is becoming a real issue. Two out of every three voters believe NZ has become more divided. Here are some of [...]

This article is posted in memory of Chloe Wright who worked tirelessly to help new mothers and their babies have a better start in this big old world.  Sadly, Chloe died over this past weekend and will be considerably [...]

If he says he's not indigenous how can we disagree with him? By Peter Williams Winston Peters just won himself at least a couple more percentage points in the election race after his speech in Nelson yesterday. The ultimate [...]

Alex Holland 5 Sept, 2023 Labour is attacking the person rather than playing the ball, maybe to distract from their achievements over the past 6 years: Multiple recessions under Labour in this term of government (2020 & 2023) and [...]

You could at least say sorry By Peter Williams The Prime Minister has a cheek doesn’t he. He said on Monday that there was no compulsory Covid-19 vaccination. People, he said, made their own choices. Yesterday he doubled [...]

By Dr Muriel Newman “There is this huge fraction of the population that has been brainwashed into thinking climate change is an existential threat to the planet… They are being deceived.”  – Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Physics William [...]

By Chris Trotter What are we to make of Chris Hipkins speech “Working With Others”? Ostensibly about unity, the Prime Minister’s address homes in on the two issues which, for the last three years, have divided New Zealanders the [...]

COME IN CRANMER Blogger's identity revealed By Peter Williams Thomas Cranmer’s real identity has been blown. The lawyer and blogger and tweeter who has exposed many a scandal in the last year or so had one of his [...]

By Marty Gibson As New Zealand inches uninspiringly nearer to the October 14th general election, many of us are still reeling from the collapse of medical and political ethics that politicians and mainstream media refuse to discuss. I have [...]

By Olivia Pierson From the time that Donald J. Trump announced his serious intention to run for president in 2015 the world watched America's legacy media slide into the most vehemently mocking hate campaign toward one man that I've [...]

Labour wants to take away its greatest strength. By Peter Williams If you want to know how stupid the Labour Party policy of removing  GST from fresh and frozen fruit vegetables is, and how complicated it will be to [...]

NEW IPCC CHAIRMAN A REALIST The world won't end, he says. By Peter Williams Here’s a piece of news that has been given scant coverage in the mainstream New Zealand media. The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, [...]

By Olivia Pierson As women all over the Western world take hits from trans-activists to their natural biological status as women, two controversial, yet formidable battle-axes, Camille Paglia and Ayn Rand, serve to remind us how valuable sensible female [...]

As NZ’s Internal Affairs Department takes steps to regulate content of our online media and social platforms it is worth remembering how important freedom of expression is to human existence. It acts as a natural check and balance over [...]

By Chris Trotter SWEET MODERATION The problem facing every leftist on 14 October is whether any vote they cast will bring anything resembling progressive change. Gaming it out, the radical voter always loses. There is no combination, short of [...]

By Chris Trotter AN EXTRAORDINARY PROMISE The Green Party Manifesto, released on Sunday (9/7/23) contains an extraordinary promise. If it finds itself in a position to do so, the Green Party will “explore” the return of land “wrongfully alienated [...]

By Marty Gibson A quiet and hopefully peaceful counter-revolution is brewing in New Zealand against the efforts of politicians, academics, bureaucrats and corporate media. It seems that hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions -- of Kiwis aren’t keen on [...]

By Marty Gibson For many of us, hearing that one of the few remaining Labour ministers with some promise behaved like a bully is not a shock -- the real shock is the pearl-clutching shock of the media, public [...]

By Marty Gibson Did you celebrate the Winter solstice last month? Celebration of these milestones in the natural world has been a human tradition for tens of thousands of years, but now most people are oblivious even to the [...]

By Marty Gibson When people tell me about how incompetent New Zealand’s politicians and public servants are and what a terrible job they’re doing I tend to respectfully disagree. “Maybe they’re doing a great job but you don’t know [...]

By Chris Trotter ORTHODOXY AND DISSIDENCE AT RADIO NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand has appointed a panel of media experts to diagnose the severity of its present crisis. Willy Akel, Linda Clark and Alan Sunderland have been asked to [...]

By Thomas Cranmer THE STATE OF STUFF: MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND TRANSPARENCY UNDER SCRUTINY Today marks the third anniversary of Sinead Boucher's acquisition of Stuff but questions still remain unanswered about the media group's governance structure and the identity of [...]

The Parliament Protests and the Posie Parker Rally have exposed the extent to which the Police frontline is under-resourced and under-funded. NEW ZEALAND'S THIN BLUE LINE By Thomas Cranmer Soaring levels of crime, high-profile protests at Parliament and the [...]

CHAOTIC DESTINATIONS By Chris Trotter “The coalition of chaos”: that’s how Matthew Hooton and the right-wing commentariat are describing the putative Labour-Green-Te Pāti Māori parliamentary alliance. Which is a contradiction, of sorts, since the notion of New Zealanders voting [...]

The research group had a controversial role in the Covid-19 pandemic and has now entered the transgender debate by making a series of outlandish claims. FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH TO NEWS HEADLINES: THE DISINFORMATION PROJECT'S INFLUENCE ON NEW ZEALAND MEDIA [...]

Dr Muriel Newman 28 March, 2023 Probably the most important court case of recent times was held in Wellington last month, yet it attracted no mention in the media. It was a Court of Appeal hearing seeking to overturn [...]

Frank Newman 25 March, 2023 This morning's press is again full of crime stories, two screaming out with messages of what's so wrong with our justice system and our government's pathetically soft approach to crime that borders on condoning [...]

Karl du Fresne 26 March, 2023 Protesters marching against the Springbok rugby tour in 1981 used to chant, “The whole world’s watching”. I doubt that the world was watching what happened in Auckland this morning (it probably wasn’t watching [...]