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Jacinda Ardern poses with incoming Harvard President Claudine Gay and outgoing President Lawrence Bacow. Ms Gay was forced to resign today after admitting to plagiarism, and also because she was under pressure for her tacit approval of violent anti-semitism at the University. Claudine Gay is the first person of color and the second woman to Read more

Just a few points to catch up with readers as we head into 2024. First I would like to apologise to subscribers who might have received emails about various non-existent posts recently. I was experimenting with a different authoring system and at first could not work out how to preview trial posts without publishing them. Read more

From September this year, one of the most fiery debates of the election campaign. Check out the manic facial expressions on triggered and shouty Chloe Swarbrick (Green Party) as she is confronted with some simple home truths by NZ First candidate Lee Donaghue. This is a part of the TVNZ “Young Voter’s Debate” where the Read more

2023 gave us a plethora of reasons to despise the legacy media, and Tory Whanau was one of them. Tory was the Green Party’s Chief of Staff before she unexpectedly won the Wellington Mayoralty in October 2022. Many allege she won because the legacy media acted as her cheer squad. Despite media’s glee at her Read more

If Winston Peters does make it back into parliament he can thank the utterly inept campaign run by the National party for a large part of this success. If you’re a Conservative you probably still find it hard to vote for a man who betrayed you so badly in 2017. Still, whatever contempt or feelings Read more

Yesterday Mr Luxon launched National’s “electrification” climate change policy. The media presented a 24 minute video wherein he described his plans to legislate to make resource consents for renewable energy projects easier to get. He also signaled his intention to go full tilt if elected encouraging wind and solar generators and the electrification of New Read more