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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 [...]

Karl du Fresne 27 March, 2023 So. We now know the person who tipped a litre of tomato juice over Posie Parker is a refugee from Colombia. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Eliana Rubashkyn, who describes [...]

Kellie-Jay Keen's Assault by Transgender Activists in New Zealand Sparks Global Outrage Cranmer 27 March, 2023 An unruly mob in Albert Park has catapulted New Zealand into the global headlines with ugly images that may become iconic in the [...]

Katrina Biggs 25 March, 2023 Let Women Speak rally in New Zealand Today in Auckland, New Zealand, we experienced mob violence that was New York level. I never thought I’d see that here in New Zealand, but today I [...]

Alia Bland - VFF 26 March, 2023 Yesterday I attended the Let Women Speak event. A day and a half later, I am still reeling from the actions of a small but incessantly celebrated section of society and their so-called 'allies'. [...]

A Retrospective Analysis Cranmer 18 March, 2023 The government's enthusiastic promotion of the Pfizer vaccine approval in New Zealand overstated the strength of the clinical assessment despite significant gaps in the data.The Pfizer vaccine was approved for use by New [...]

Dr. Muriel Newman 18 March, 2023 New Zealand is now well and truly in the grip of ‘woke’ madness. And it’s destroying the unity of our nation. What is “woke”? With origins in cultural Marxism, the general view is [...]

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Thomas Cranmer March 17, 2023 Like it or not, the culture wars have entered New Zealand politics and look set to broaden and intensify. The culture wars are often viewed as an exclusively [...]

Dr. Muriel Newman 28 February 2023 On June 22, 1633, at a time when heretics were being burnt at the stake, Galileo, the Astronomer, Physicist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa, was charged by the Inquisition [...]