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Listen to the audio HERE Well, now, I was saying, before being so rudely interrupted, that Humza Yousaf should step down as Scotland's First Minister, in the wake of his odious Hate Crime legislation coming into law. [...]

Latest immigration stats are staggering In case you hadn’t noticed, the makeup of the New Zealand population is changing significantly every day, every month, and every year. The most recent numbers from Stats NZ are simply mind boggling. In [...]

A large part of the success of Western civilisation was that our European ancestors saw fit to mount an enormous civil war during the Reformation and Counter Reformation to defang Catholic theocracy during the pernicious times of the Inquisition.  [...]

Enough is enough Here’s a name that isn’t published or broadcast much these days — Julian Assange. Fourteen years ago he was one of the most famous people in the world. That was after the online publisher he founded, [...]

All votes must be of equal value Some politicians just don’t get the concept of democracy. That every New Zealander, citizen and resident, gets to cast a vote of equal value in central and local government elections has to [...]

The declining fortunes of the mainstream media has been dominating the news over recent weeks. The industry is waning, and the weaker players are facing closure. While this is grim for those who face job loss and financial uncertainty, [...]

What was that judge thinking? That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There [...]

Why can't he show strength against the media onslaught? Our media just do not like Christopher Luxon. But of all the issues they could and should be attacking him on, the nonsense over his accommodation allowance is about as [...]

Economics 101 explains why Newshub Bankrupted — it was the fault of its own journalists who should recognise they were the architects of their own demise. A thousand books and papers in economics and business strategy are about the [...]

Could anything have saved it? The real surprise is not that Newshub is going under but that it’s lasted this long. TV3 started broadcasting in November 1989, almost 35 years ago. It was a different era. There was no [...]

Unless you were present to hear the Prime Minister deliver his State of the Nation speech on 18 February it was difficult to get the full speech. Chris Luxon mailed out only a few bullet points. TV One promised [...]

Thirty billion dollars ($30,000,000,000) is a mind-boggling amount of money. That sum could buy dozens of new kindergartens or police stations or whole hospitals with medical schools. It could eliminate poverty or overhaul our decrepit education system. It could [...]

Three years ago a friend of mine who’s a District Court Judge asked me if I would be guest speaker at the annual DCJ shindig, scheduled that year for the Hilton in Taupo. Despite a feeling of significant intellectual [...]