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The picture is firming up, and it’s devastating. Six people are dead at the foot of Mount Maunganui because, over four critical hours on the morning of 22 January, New Zealand’s emergency management system failed. Not just failed, but failed repeatedly, in ways that now look systemic. And what’s becoming clearer with each new revelation is that this wasn’t just bad luck or an unforeseeable tragedy. This was a disaster waiting to happen, built…

The emerging narrative is that Ukraine might have won had he climbed the escalation ladder faster. *Andrew Korybko* Ukraine’s impending defeat, in the sense of failing to reconquer all of its lost territory by the end of the ongoing conflict, has sparked a blame game about who’s responsible for this epic debacle. Senior fellow at the liberal Atlantic Council think tank Adrian Karatnycky published a piece at Foreign Policy in early…

Inflation has moved back above the Reserve Bank’s target range, driven less by discretionary spending than by unavoidable household bills. Council rates and electricity costs are now biting hardest, pushing inflation higher even as families cut back elsewhere. *Summarised by Centrist* Statistics New Zealand figures show the consumer price index rose 0.6 per cent in the December quarter. This has lifted annual inflation to 3.1 per cent. That…

A paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society entitled *“Identifying and quantifying potentially problematic prescribing cascades in clinical practice: A mixed-methods study”* throws a sharp light on mistakes that were made by physicians, GPs, hospital staff and epidemiologists during the pandemic. A prescribing cascade occurs when adverse effects result which are not recognised as caused by the drug; after which another…

Multiple federal agencies remain without funding as Democratic lawmakers are demanding major reforms to immigration enforcement *Law enforcement officers are seen during a protest against ICE on January 18, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. © Global Look Press / Jen Golbeck/Keystone Press Agency/Global Look Press* [RT] The US federal government has entered a partial shutdown, the second such instance since last…