[...] Speaking of the opposition, this brings me to the Act party and MP David Seymour. In this parliamentary term, he has been a stronger opposition than National with 55 MPs. The record of parliamentary votes in Hansard is irrefutable evidence that the Opposition to the Labour-led Government is just one MP, the Act member for Epsom.

[...] If Europe continues on its “no-death penalty for any crime” trajectory, enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, they will one day have to admit that in order to hold this legal principle as some sort of “civilised ideal,” they are fully prepared to sacrifice many innocents within their civilian populations [...]

THE POSTCARD says it all. There stands Auckland’s Mt Albert/Owairaka, circa 1910, gloriously naked. Not a single tree in evidence. None. If the Tupuna Maunga Authority (TMA) truly wishes to restore Owairaka to its original condition, then it will not limit itself to cutting down 345 trees, it will cut down every last tree on the mountain!

[...] If the free to air model is broken then yes, the participants should fail and they should fail only because the concept is unsustainable, not because the competitor is guaranteed taxpayer funded survival.

[...] two recent polls - Rasmussen and Emerson - are now showing that a whopping 34.5% of Black Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing. This represents a potential disaster for Democrats, who have always relied on winning the votes of this minority demographic. There are several significant factors in play which are creating this change: