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Origin Shortly after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election in which Democratic challenger Joe Biden prevailed over incumbent Donald Trump, social media users circulated a block of text — purportedly originating with a Prague newspaper — that termed the U.S. a ‘confederacy of fools’ for electing Biden: But this item was just another piece of repurposed political misinformation, one that had previously featured Donald Trump as its subject, and Barack Obama before him. It was origi...

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Andrew Dickens: Wellingtons problems the result of the ratepayer model (Photo / 123RF) I spent the weekend in Wellington and it was fabulous.  I went for my son’s 22 nd birthday using the tickets I bought for his 21 st birthday that I couldn’t use because some sort of virus was floating around.  I arrived on Friday and had a good shop and a great dinner at Havana where the octopus and the gnocchi are to die for.  Saturday was a blinder of a day.  The clearest blue with a steady Norther...

What’s gone wrong for the capital city? How much time do you have? Danyl McLauchlan goes hunting for solutions to the city’s lengthening list of problems. “The reality is even Wellington is dying and we don’t know how to turn it around.” – John Key in 2013. “I should have said ‘under sustained pressure’, which would have been a better terminology. I’m not suggesting that it’s dying in the slightest.” – John Key a few days later. Wellington is not quite dead. In fact, t...

The offensive illustration from On Beyond Zebra, one of the six Dr Seuss books that will no longer be published Photo: Dr Seuss illustration “The problem with the culture wars / Is everything becomes a fight / And if Dr Seuss were alive today / He’d say this issue isn’t black and white."   But not everyone here was brushing off those books being eased out of the catalogue.   Last week Newshub reported National Party Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger took aim at would-be censor...

"Shes running for the hills," he said. "She no longer wants to be on this programme each week. The somewhat tragic conclusion that is drawn is that the questions she gets - the demand for a level of accountability - is a little bit tough." Ardern had actually decided to leave the regular slot four weeks earlier, opting to instead appear on Newstalk ZB only - in her words - “as and when issues arise”. No-one had noticed earlier because issues had obviously arisen, and she’d been interviewe...

Decades earlier a very different leader with a very real snarl raised visions of a Communist ambush and dangerous political overreach. An infamous advertising campaign featuring dancing Cossacks helped National’s Robert Muldoon take the Beehive, but even he could not resist the strong arm of political might, responding to crises with carless days, wage and price freezes, and Think Big. Tom Scott Tom Scott cartoon depicting Helengrad. Cartoons depicting Helengrad and the National Party’s d...

EDITORIAL: The review into National's disastrous election raises more questions than answers.

STUFF The review will look at how Pharmac performs against its current objectives and whether it could do a better job for New Zealanders if the Government set new objectives. OPINION: Peter Davis’ observations regarding Pharmac funding new drugs every time there is a change of government highlight everything that is wrong with the agency. Former health minister Annette King, who in 1999 instructed Pharmac to fund Interferon for multiple sclerosis patients, then stated “New Zealand was on...

Watch: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern rejects shes picking favourable media after cancelling slot with Mike Hosking 8 Mar, 2021 10:01 PM 3 minutes to read Barry Soper vs PM Jacinda Ardern over her radio slots. Video / Mark Mitchell NZ Herald The Prime Minister has rejected a suggestion shes picking and choosing favourable media and topics after cancelling her regular slot with Newstalk ZBs Mike Hosking. It was announced this week Jacinda Ardern had pulled the plug on regular appearances and she ...