On Tuesday night, Donald Trump stood in the House of Representatives and introduced DJ Daniel, a thirteen-year-old boy battling brain cancer who desperately wants to be a police officer. His local ...

Health New Zealand had been tracking its finances through a single Excel spreadsheet, a financial review of the public agency has revealed. An independent report by Deloitte, published on Health NZ’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David, Saw that doco there was propaganda from both sides but many of the assertions around Putin were simply wrong. Last night I saw a podcast where a CNN news item from 2014 was shown. Guess what, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...