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New Zealand politics just got personal. On Sunday evening, Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ ex-wife Jade Paul posted a series of claims about him on her private Facebook page. The post was deleted. Hipkins issued a five-word denial: “I reject the allegations entirely.” He’s seeking legal advice. And just like that, we’re having a national conversation about the oldest and most uncomfortable question in political life: when does a politician’s…

Part I... Part 2... · If Part 2 described the repositioning of New Zealand inside global financial architecture, Part 3 shows what that repositioning produced. · The hollowing out becomes visible here. · Not in theory. In productivity. In industry. In money flow. · From High Productivity to Stagnation · In the 1950s and early 1960s, New Zealand ranked among the highest-income nations in the developed world. Its productivity performance…

Ursula von der Leyen suddenly says the EU can no longer count on the old reliable unwritten rules for me, but not for thee By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rachel-marsden/rachelmarsden.com · ©  Omar Havana/Getty Images · When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had to come up with a …

The PM’s statement followed a presidential veto that blocked Warsaw from tapping billions in defense loans from the bloc  · Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, February 26, 2026, Warsaw, Poland ©  Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images · [RT] There is “a real threat” that Poland could leave the EU, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said, after the country’s president vetoed a bill that would have allowed Warsaw to tap…

Hungarian PM has accused the EU of taking “the war upon itself” · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters in Budapest, Hungary, March 15, 2026. ©  Janos Kummer / Getty Images · [RT] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Brussels of dragging the EU into a direct war with Russia through potential troop deployments to Ukraine. · Speaking at the ‘Peace March’ in Budapest on Sunday, which drew…

The rebuke has followed the European Commission’s proposal of a fact-finding mission to inspect damage to the Druzhba pipeline · ©  Thierry Monasse/Getty Images · [RT] Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ridiculed an initiative launched by Kiev’s EU backers to restart Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, calling it “blackmail.” · The accusations came after the European Commission last week proposed a fact-finding…

The Middle East escalation has cut off a number of American allies from the vital Strait of Hormuz · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / MAGNIFIER · Oil producers in the Gulf region have lost an estimated $15.1 billion in energy revenues since the launch of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing estimates by analytics firm Kpler. · The US and Israel conducted coordinated strikes on the…

The LIABLE Act would trigger a historic legal reckoning — unleashing a tsunami of lawsuits from millions of vaccine-injured Americans against Pfizer and Moderna. · by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH · Representative Chip Roy has introduced the Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered (LIABLE) Act, a bill that would strip COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers of the federal legal immunity granted during the pandemic and allow millions of injured …

Kiev has intensified attacks on Russian civilian sites recently, backed by Western arms supplies · RT- FILE PHOTO. ©  Mikhail Voskresensky/RIA Novosti · European leaders are not interested in a diplomatic settlement to the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He stressed that the only recent diplomatic outreach by EU states – a visit by a French presidential envoy last month – did not bring “any…

Analyzing Bret Weinstein's intuition that Netanyahu's gift of a golden pager to President Trump has an ambiguous and ominous quality. · John Leake · The following clip piqued my curiosity. · The video prompted me to find an image of the gift. · Weinstein points out that the pager is an allusion to the September 2024 Israeli operation in Lebanon, in which pagers rigged with explosives killed or injured thousands of Hezbollah…