Browsing: Opinion
OPINION: Melanie Phillips. Most people in America are against the war with Iran, as they are in Britain, too. Very…
OPINION: Rodney Hide. Christianity didn’t just arrive in New Zealand—it built the place. Missionaries planted the first permanent settlement in…
OPINION: By Teasi Cannon, Would you board a cruise ship if you knew the captain and crew were hired not for…
OPINION: Rodney Hide. In March 2023, Green co-leader and then-Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, Marama Davidson,…
Opinion: Rodney Hide On Tuesday 21 April 2026, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called for a formal confidence vote in his…
OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell Speaking after his cabinet meeting yesterday, affirming his continuing leadership of the National Party, Prime Minister Chris…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien. Today must end it. After a weeks and months of constant cycles of breathless speculation, anonymous briefings,…
Opinion: Graham Adams The path to election glory has traps. NZ First’s prospects at the election after a run of…
OPINION: Oliver Hartwich. With energy prices spiking, an old idea has gathered fresh momentum: break up the big electricity companies.…
Opinion: Bryce McKenzie. Bryce Mckenzie, co-founder of Groundswell NZ explains clearly what is happening in Gore and why it is…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien. How Liam Hehir convinced me I was wrong Last week, in my weekly political wrap up I…
By Russell Moore. In the past few weeks, the president has posted an Easter message that used profanity and threatened civilizational genocide,…
Opinion: Ani O’Brien. Note: I was a vegetarian for 10 years and previously worked at the SPCA. I am a…
OPINION: Roger Partridge. Critics of judicial overreach face an odd challenge. The most sophisticated response is not to defend the…
By Al Perrotta/Daily Signal. Of the many activities planned in conjunction with America’s 250th birthday, none can be expected to…
By Chris Trotter – OPINION Power, if it is to have any lasting legacy, must be seized. Not inherited, not…
OPINION: Karl du Fresne “I’m not going to play that game,” Christopher Luxon said – rather lamely – when Tova…
Opinion: Peter Mortlock Don’t you love the lying, biased media? On Good Friday, they show some “dying” church with a…
By Melanie Phillips. As the clock ticks away toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest “negotiate or I unleash hell” deadline,…
OPINION: Mark Creech, After watching an episode of “House of David,” (Amazon Prime) I found myself drawn back into one of…
by Rev, Dr, Stuart Lange. Easter is an excellent time to prayerfully read again the powerful New Testament narratives(1) of…
by Annie Mcbrydie I am writing as an ordinary New Zealander who, like many others, is feeling the growing pressure…
OPINION: Kerre Woodham. The former Prime Minister, the former Health Minister, the leader of the Labour Party has to go.…
OPINION: Caitlin Brown. I have a proposal: what if we collectively stopped going to work, refused to pay taxes, and…
OPINION: Billy Brown After 15 years building infrastructure across the South Pacific and Australia, I came home to New Zealand…
OPINION: Peter Williams The following was written in Peter’s capacity as Taxpayers’ Union board member In 2022, I joined the…
OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell I am not a supporter of government hand-outs. That’s because I am not a supporter of the…
Opinion: Aaron Spencer. New Zealanders, in general, have had very little interest in the apparently baffling complexities of geopolitics, economics,…
By John Stonestreet and Timothy D Padgett In February, James Talarico, a U.S. Senate candidate from Texas, claimed that the biblical story…
OPINION: Ashley Church There is something about Israel that feels bigger than politics and bigger than the events of the…
OPINION: ROGER PARTRIDGE When a story recently emerged about the government getting advice on carless days under the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act, older New Zealanders will have felt a…
Opinion: Jonathan S. Tobin Critics assert that the price America is paying to force the Islamic Republic to give up…
OPINION: Ashley Church. For a long time, after October 7, I tried to respond to the claims that Israel was…
Across much of the modern church landscape, a curious silence has settled over the pulpit. It is not the silence…
Image featured was created by AI. OPINION: Ashley Church If the recent Newstalk ZB claim that “there is no bias…
OPINION: Wanda Alger As charismatic churches face an ongoing reckoning over the abuse of prophetic ministry, there is an enormous…
OPINION by Omar Suleiman In a small town in southern Iran on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks (Feb. 28), more…
OPINION: Two venerable and time honoured social service providers of New Zealand seem to have decided that the way forward…
OPINION by Dr Bryce Edwards The resignation on Friday of NZ First donor and transport businessman Scott O’Donnell from the…
OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell. Here’s a policy for National. Or ACT. Get rid of the sole parent benefit. Known for decades…