Shanah Tovah Rosh Hashanah is a two day celebration of the start of the Jewish New Year. We are in Year 5786 Anno Mundi, since the biblical belief in the creation of the world. It is also held to be ...
David Seymour says changes to warning labels for tobacco, nicotine and alcohol products are on the table in a labelling review by his Ministry for Regulation. Public health groups have written to ...
Environmental groups have seen increased support since the 2023 election, though this hasn’t always translated into more donations. As part of what their leaders have called a “war on nature”, the ...
Around 100,000 Americans from all 50 states gathered for the memorial service of Charlie Kirk. He is the only private citizen in American history to have the President and Vice-President speak at his ...
Nicola Willis is calling Labour's willingness to discuss increasing the Reserve Bank's inflation target "insane economic illiteracy". Labour says that's a "massive misrepresentation" of their stance.
Labour MP Ingrid Leary is complaining that no New Zealand Ministers flew over to the UK to attend the Black Ferns game in Bristol!! No doubt if they were in attendance, she would complain about that ...
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Kill the NTS

The $1.4 billion national ticketing solution (NTS) has been delayed by a year with a review finding NZTA's original timings for the plan were "overly ambitious". The nationwide ticketing solution ...
C.S. Lewis is truly one of the most remarkable and influential intellects of the 20th Century - as was George MacDonald in the Century before him. Lewis regarded MacDonald as his "master" - high ...
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Bad parents

When police arrested a 13-year-old boy in Washington state last week accused of making threats to kill, they found he had “everything ready to go to commit a mass shooting” – including a trove of more ...
The writer of TV’s Father Ted has been arrested at Heathrow over three social media posts on transgender issues. Graham Linehan, who also created the IT Crowd and, with Dylan Moran, Black Books, said ...
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Not intractable

When the White House added “irregular migration” to her policy portfolio, Harris wrote that she helped secure billions in private investment for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as part of an ...