New Zealand

How New Zealand's zero Covid strategy fell apart

2 April 2022 6:00 pm

The biggest thing in the political rock world returns to the international stage this spring with a one-off appearance at…

Land of the long white lie

2 April 2022 9:00 am

New Zealand’s ‘new kind of leader’ is destroying her country

Jacinda Ardern – on the way out, but crowing?

26 March 2022 9:00 am

The socialists have done untold damage to New Zealand, sorry, Aotearoa

'Jacinda mania' is over

23 March 2022 2:38 am

Jacinda Ardern, once the golden girl of New Zealand politics, is in trouble. The country’s main opposition party, National, is edging…

Could New Zealand's property bubble bring down Jacinda Ardern?

13 March 2022 5:30 pm

The news this week that the price of an average UK home has hit £260,000 came as a bit of…

Is Jacinda Ardern megalomanic?

12 March 2022 9:00 am

Just asking...

New Zealand High Court overturns police and defence forces vaccine mandate

28 February 2022 4:00 am

A New Zealand High Court challenge questioning the legality of Covid vaccination mandates for Police and Defence Force employees has…

Can New Zealand move on from Covid mandates?

21 February 2022 9:00 am

Omicron has arrived in New Zealand. A ‘freedom convoy’ has plonked itself on parliament lawns. As the police struggle to…

Ardern’s Great Kiwi Reset

12 February 2022 9:00 am

Is Jacinda’s ‘well-being’ mantra basically sabotage?

In Fortress New Zealand, faith in Saint Jacinda is starting to fade

29 January 2022 9:00 am

Faith in ‘Saint Jacinda’ is starting to fade

Dear New Zealand, it’s time to end Covid discrimination

3 January 2022 4:00 am

Dear New Zealand, It’s a shame that we as a country have decided to follow a policy of discrimination. Supporting…

Heading towards dystopia – what happened to New Zealand?

16 December 2021 4:00 am

In the clash between authoritarianism and democracy, we know what is winning hands down. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, far-left on…

Let’s not copy New Zealand’s mistake with ciggies

14 December 2021 12:00 pm

New Zealand this week banned smoking for the next generation. Those under 14 will never be allowed to legally smoke…

New Zealand embraces gender ghosts as the national religion

13 December 2021 2:04 pm

From where I sit from across the ditch it appears ‘the land of the long white cloud’ is encased in…

Decline and fall of New Zealand

11 December 2021 9:00 am

Where mythology now is science

Saint Jacinda's war on fags

10 December 2021 1:20 am

It is a curious irony that the West’s leading progressive icon is probably the most authoritarian leader in the free world…

Kiwi Life

13 November 2021 9:00 am

A government in jackboots A recent headline echoes the current mood of this now fed-up country, with Sir Russell Coutts,…

He Puapua?

9 November 2021 5:41 pm

Now why on earth why would the New Zealand government, dominated by the far-left Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, produce a…

Kiwi notes

6 November 2021 9:00 am

Our tired democracy teeters When is enough? When Aucklanders recently heard the seemingly interminable lockdown which the Prime Minister Jacinda…

Kiwi Life

30 October 2021 9:00 am

Lorde vs Lana People who live in glass houses really shouldn’t get changed with the lights on. Doubly so, one…

Saint Jacinda backs a two-tier society

25 October 2021 10:50 pm

For many so-called liberals, Jacinda Ardern seemed to be the perfect premier. Warm, empathetic, progressive, above all – moderate –…

Vaping: one policy the Kiwis have got right

21 October 2021 12:01 pm

The Asia Pacific region has been split in two as to how to best deal with vaping. No bigger is…

Insufficient intent

16 October 2021 9:00 am

The players prepare for the Glasgow Grand Final

Kiwi Life

2 October 2021 9:00 am

A crisis by design It is increasingly sad, so many New Zealanders saying they would leave – if they could…

Kiwi Language

2 October 2021 9:00 am

A tech company claims that anti-vax and anti-lockdown rallies have been ‘astroturfed’. Which means? Well, ‘AstroTurf’ was the world’s first…