The New Zealand Herald
An inflation crisis of the Government’s making
What if the same politicians now trying to save us from high prices caused our current situation?
Year: 2022
Newsroom
Self-absorbed West needs reality check on actual existential threats
It may be a good time for a reality check, especially in Western industrialised countries. Perhaps they worry and feel helpless about things that, though bad, may not pose the most existential threats.
Insights
Transparency, please
Now, New Zealand is not a developing country. But we do not want to become one, either.
Insights
Central planning through the backdoor
If you thought central planning was buried with the fall of communism, you should look at the European Union.
Newsroom
Taxonomic vandalism, EU-style
When the EU embarked on developing its own taxonomy, maybe it should have consulted with a few biologists. That may have prevented it from creating a monster.
Insights
Intentionally blank
The world needs more courage to draw a blank. Intentionally.
Newsroom
Boris Johnson flies close to the sun as Icarus in Downing Street
Johnson was respected, even loved, for being Boris, the clown-like persona he had created. But that ‘Boris’ character had little in common with the real Johnson.
Insights
Our final Groundhog Day?
Unlike Groundhog Day, there is nothing funny about Covid. But just as in Groundhog Day, it will all eventually be over. Hopefully, this year.
Newsroom
Russia has won the war without firing a single shot
Putin may have just built up the threat of an invasion as a bluff. And why would he now want to risk economic sanctions following a war when he has already achieved his major objectives without one?