In the context of yesterday’s teachers strike, Judith Collins claimed that teachers with ten years of experience “can” (not “do”) earn $147,000 a year. In reality though, teachers have to pay their ...

Dugin grew in relative fame after the Ukraine conflict began [in 2014], as this was his most efficacious recommendation. As he explained, “Ukraine, as an independent state with some territorial ...

The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “ Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic attempt to erase an entire people from history ...

Meaning: once the public begins to take a hard look at the options before them, some of Labour’s preceding soft support will ebb away, since it is largely based on an anything-but -this attitude ...

In the shadow of the Holocaust at the end of WWII, the world passed a raft of United Nations/Geneva conventions to ensure that states could “never again” inflict such horrors on a racially defined ...

Want Donald Trump to lower the tariffs on your exports to US markets? Easy. Offer him money. Lots of it. As the New York Times explained yesterday (in a story headlined “Trump’s Demand to Trading ...

Luxon did protest too much on the weekend. Sure, the credulous party faithful were willing to believe him as he continued to lay the blame for the state of the economy on what Labour did, or didn’t do ...

Other countries are expanding the ability of their citizens to vote. In Britain (from which New Zealand has long taken its constitutional cues) the franchise is being extended to 16-year-olds. In this ...

One of the whoppers told regularly by Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon is that National inherited a terrible, no good economy from Labour, with rampant inflation and sky high interest rates that ...