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By Dieuwe de Boer A few weeks ago I wrote about how I supported the treaty principles being put forward by ACT because the treaty is a liberal document. The abstraction of the treaty into universal liberal rights was inevitable and a [...]

Assistant Producer - Breakfast Remote or Queenstown-based 15 - 30 hours + per week The Opportunity: Want to work with a team making a real difference in New Zealand? At Reality Check Radio, we cover the issues the mainstream [...]

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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 [...]