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For more than five decades, New Zealand has been trapped in a quiet, grinding decline. Productivity has flat-lined. Living standards have slipped down the OECD rankings. Wealth has concentrated upward while poverty has spread downward. Our young and capable leave in record numbers, chasing wages and opportunity elsewhere. Those who remain are told this is normal, inevitable, and global. It isn’t. And it doesn’t have to be this way. At Davos…

President Trump told the World Economic Forum in Davos that the United States has staged a rapid economic turnaround since his return to office, claiming falling inflation, accelerating growth, surging investment, and a sharply tightened border. He credited tariffs, deregulation, tax cuts, and expanded domestic energy production for the shift, while criticising Europe’s energy and migration policies. He also raised Greenland, NATO…

The starting gun has been fired on the 2026 general election. There are now 277 days until voting starts in the New Zealand general election. And it’s 290 days of campaigning to endure, until voting closes. Then there’s the weeks of waiting for official results after polling day, and probably weeks more of coalition negotiations. It’s going to be a long year of politics. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed yesterday that the election…

“New Zealand should learn from the problems emerging in Australia's new anti-hate legislation, not seek to replicate them, says the Free Speech Union. *"Australia's Parliament passed sweeping new laws in an emergency late-night session with barely three days of public consultation,"* said Jillaine Heather, Chief Executive of the Free Speech Union. The Bondi tragedy was horrific and antisemitism is a genuine problem. But when legal experts,…

Newly published research papers demonstrate that gain of function research designed to investigate the effects of deadly pathogens is still continuing. In the course of research, live mice are being exposed to deadly doses of lab-built recombinant synthetic H5N1 viruses with codon optimisation which boosts expression in human cells and cleavage site enhancement linked to viral virulence. Lethal doses of synthetic viral material containing…

That is the day New Zealanders will decide whether this country stays on the course of common sense, stability, and national interest or whether it risks sliding back into the chaos, ideological excess, and economic recklessness we are still recovering from after the last Labour government. New Zealand First entered government to restore balance. And, after just two years, we are delivering. Michael, we have stood for common sense when it was…

If the first step is exposing neo-piracy, the second is asking a harder question: what replaces it? Critics of the current monetary order are routinely dismissed with the same lazy retort — “fine, but what’s the alternative?” The implication is that debt-based, privately issued money is the only system possible, and any deviation would mean chaos. That is simply false. *In Part One of this series, Neo-Piracy, we traced how modern financial…

In my last column, I laid out the sorry state of the Green Party as 2026 kicks off. Scandals piled up, staff jumped ship, polls slid south, and the leadership clung to excuses about algorithms and the Coalition Government being responsible for turning people off the Greens. All this despite a coalition in chaos and a Labour Party that’s barely visible. The symptoms are clear, but what’s the disease? Today, I’m digging into the deeper mess: a…

The most revealing moments in Christopher Luxon’s “State of the Nation” address were not the confident passages on growth, exports, or geopolitics. They were the subjects never mentioned at all. Across more than forty minutes, the Prime Minister offered a fluent defence of fiscal restraint, export-led recovery, global engagement, and security alignment. But on two foundational questions facing New Zealand—money creation and energy…

The release of the United States’ 2025 National Security Strategy under President Trump is more than a geopolitical reset — it is a brutal mirror held up to countries that dismantled their own economic sovereignty while assuming globalisation would protect them. *View the U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy here* For New Zealand, that mirror is unforgiving. Once ranked **#3 in the OECD in the 1960s**, New Zealand now hovers closer to…

In my previous article I discussed at length how the Treaty of Waitangi has been weaponised by a small group of radicals and used to cast the blame onto early settlors for all of the so-called harm suffered by Maori as a result of colonisation. I also discussed how this process seems to have accelerated over recent years particularly since the passing into law of the Treaty of Waitangi Act in 1975. The Treaty which the Maori chiefs signed…

Who says getting older means slowing down? At Acacia Cove Retirement Village, retirement is about rediscovering freedom, connection, and enjoyment. With everyday tasks like maintenance and gardening taken care of, your time is truly your own — giving you the space to focus on what matters most to you. Whether it’s joining a social group, enjoying a swim, or simply unwinding in tranquil surroundings, life here is relaxed, fulfilling, and…

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Tuesday that he rejected a “ridiculous” proposal from the Clintons to conduct an unofficial, off-the-record meeting as Congress begins contempt proceedings against the former first couple in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. In a post on X, the Kentucky Republican said lawyers for Bill and Hillary Clinton offered an arrangement that would have required him to travel to New York for a…

Trump might claim that building “Golden Dome” infrastructure there, possibly with the partial purpose of serving as a cover for deploying new offensive weapons systems in the Arctic for targeting Russia and China, is required for plugging the gap between the world’s largest island and Alaska. *Andrew Korybko* Trump framed his desired acquisition of Greenland as indispensable to his “Golden Dome” missile defense megaproject and hinted at the…

The contribution would come from the Russian assets frozen in the US Moscow is ready to contribute to US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ initiative, President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Security Council on Wednesday. He suggested donating $1 billion to the body out of the Russian assets frozen in the US to support the recovery of the Palestinian enclave. The initiative envisages an international…

Countries that long participated in the system knew it was “partially false,” Mark Carney told the Davos forum *RT: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. © Getty Images / Harun Ozalp;  Anadolu* Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has admitted that the *“rules-based international order”* was always a partially false narrative that countries knowingly upheld for…

Business as usual is ‘impossible’ while the US is attempting to seize Greenland, the European Parliament has said *RT: Ursula von der Leyen meets with Donald Trump at Trump Turnberry golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, July 27, 2025 © Getty Images / Andrew Harnik* The European Parliament has halted approval of the EU’s landmark trade and tariff deal with the US, citing US President Donald Trump’s *“continued and…

The globalist world order ‘left American workers behind’, Howard Lutnick has said *RT: Howard Lutnick speaks during an event at the White House in Washington DC, December 19, 2025 © Getty Images / Alex Wong* Globalization is a *“failed policy”* that has *“left America behind,”* US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declared in Davos on Tuesday, accusing the World Economic Forum (WEF) of pushing a globalist agenda that…

The US president has said he would meet Vladimir Zelensky and send envoys to Moscow later this week *RT: US President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2026. ©  Global Look Press / Lian Yi* Moscow and Kiev are close to reaching an agreement on ending the Ukraine conflict, US President Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on…

The US president has called Britain’s deal to lease back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius an act of “total weakness” *US President Donald Trump. ©  Alex Wong/Getty Images* US President Donald Trump has criticized the UK’s decision to hand over control of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it a *“great stupidity”* and a threat to US national security. The Chagos Archipelago,…