Several cases of potentially defamatory comments, breaches of privacy and unsupported assertions were found in Youth MPs’ draft speeches by officials tasked with reviewing them before delivery during ...

Human progress continues, with some backsliding. Since publishing two books on human progress (The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011, and Enlightenment Now, 2018), every year I update my graphs on the ...

Bold ambition and fearless execution – that’s what it has taken to get intense bilateral negotiations between India and New Zealand finalised so a trade deal could be announced just before the country ...

Forgot to mention on Day 2, that the Tuhoe hut warden at Waiopaoa Hut was superb. She told us some of the history of the area, the legends about Lake Waikaremona, and also opened it up to general ...

Day 2 was a downhill day. Started off high up in typical NZ bush. There were around 250 steps going down. I was glad we had them down, not up. I much prefer a sloping track to steps. Even when there ...

The Taxpayers’ Union today mourns the passing of Garrick Tremain, widely regarded as New Zealand’s finest and most influential political cartoonist of the contemporary era. Garrick Tremain and Tom ...

Last night I had the beautiful privilege of going to a remarkable concert at Vector Arena in Auckland. My beautiful wife and I drove in from Dairy Flat with only minor delays, near the port, due to ...

January 17, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 17 January 2026 ...

A recent report from the Buckley Institute found that there are no Republican faculty members across 27 departments at Yale University. ... It found that nearly 83% of faculty are registered Democrats ...

Independent investigative reporters Penny Marie and Rachel Scott have released a new video and accompanying Substack articles revealing NZ Defence Force (NZDF) training materials that depict ...

There are around 200 countries in the world. Not all rankings are of all 200 though.

It is reported that Iran has massacred 12,000 pro-freedom protesters in less than a fortnight: Where is everyone who has been protesting Israel’s actions weekly over the past two years? The Palestine ...