[...] If Collins is serious about winning this year’s election - and I have no doubt she is - then I hope that she gives profound consideration to the foundational values of her Party, for they matter more now than ever. It’s not a case of National voters keeping faith with the Party, it’s a case of National keeping faith with its own core principles to deserve those core voters, and swing voters who are at odds with the progressive left (because they own a business, or did).

[...] Even someone of reality TV levels of stupid can see it’s the economy that’s going to dominate this election. I have my own handcrafted metric to gauge the economic health of the nation. Let’s call it Black’s First Law of Economic Doom. It states:

[...] As Thomas Sowell observes, in Intellectuals and Race, the first response of the “progressive” intelligentsia is to blame every disparity between racial groups on “racism” – usually in the complete absence of any evidence whatsoever. Indeed, often in defiance of the evidence.

[...] Dismissed by most of the mainstream media as yet another symptom of the Trump presidency’s political malaise, most journalists have no interest in answering the question: Who and/or what is “Q”?

Boag's demise and what it means for the National Party, Nikki Kaye and the Greens. Also a look at scientific fraud busting expert Dr John Ioannidis on the COVID data models. Was NZ's sacrifice for nothing?