The Taxpayers' Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that spending on a National Ticketing System for buses has so far cost $146.4 million (of a $1.338 billion budget over 14 ...

There is room for good impartial fact checking. But too often fact checkers either get it wrong or just nit pick and miss the woods for the trees. Here's a great example from AP which claims seven of ...

A reader inquired if the support lost by the major party of Government since the election is a record. I didn't think so, but have now gone and checked the data. This compares the 1st 1 News poll of ...

Grant Duncan alerted me to a new feature at the LA Times. In a column such as this one on Trump and Ukraine, they use AI to: Tag the column as right, CR, CL left etc Publish an AI generated rebuttal ...

Critiques of Trump often receive a predictable response, regardless of the source. Critics are promptly diagnosed with so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome, a supposedly clinical condition that ...

Never thought I would be cheering on a speech by a French Senator, but in this case I think he nails it. And this is not a raging leftie. The Senator is the leader of a centre-right grouping in the ...

The Government has agreed to progressively lower the age of eligibility for bowel cancer screening tests to align with Australia. “Today, I am pleased to announce that we are taking the first step by ...

These UK poll results from Matt Goodwin are disturbing. The number of adults who would refuse to fight for their country has more than doubled in 20 years from 19% to 41%. In one sense it is no ...

Talking about the school’s previous lunch provider, Poole said: “We had a system that was working for us in our school, and now it’s not.” The school orders 310 lunches a day and about 150 are left ...

Twyford, the Labour MP for Te Atatū, spoke against Destiny Church after the Pride events and called for the church to be removed from the charities register. Twyford said earlier that Police Minister ...

All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and ...