Many expected fireworks at Waitangi this year. In an election year, with the Government’s record on Treaty issues still fresh and raw, the annual commemorations looked set to be a battleground. Instead, the week turned out to be remarkably calm on the surface. And deeply fractured underneath. The real story of Waitangi 2026 wasn’t about Māori versus the Crown. It was about Māori versus Māori, and an opposition that seems incapable of getting…

The New Zealand Government has quietly initiated a surprise review into the Reserve Bank’s controversial decision to underwrite approximately $55 billion in pandemic-era money-creation programmes during COVID-19. *Caption: Finance Minister Nicola Willis has announced an inquiry into RBNZ actions. Photo / Mark Mitchell* The inquiry is aimed at assessing the impact of the central bank’s Large-Scale Asset Purchasing (LSAP) and other measures on…

The US Justice Department’s release of more than three million Epstein files (including 180,000 images and 2,000 videos) has blown the doors off the most protected social network of the late twentieth century. What these documents reveal is not just a catalogue of one man’s depravity. It is, as Helen Rumbelow wrote in The Times, like “taking the back off the world clock”, exposing how power actually works at the top of the Western world. And…

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Russia’s top diplomat said the late US financier’s crimes are “beyond comprehension” *A protester holds a picture of Jeffrey Epstein outside a New York courthouse. July 8, 2019. ©  Stephanie Keith / Getty Images* [RT] The decadent lifestyle of disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his entourage is a testament to the moral decay of Western elites, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Last …

RT contributor and ex-US senatorial aide said the deletion of the Epstein files would be an obstruction of justice The US Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted to shield former President Joe Biden by deleting an email referencing him from the Epstein files, former US Senate staffer and RT contributor Tara Reade has said. Reade worked as a Senate aide for Biden in the early 1990s and has accused him of sexual assault. In 2023, she moved…

*Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,* **Graham Linehan, the Irish comedy writer, testified before the US House Judiciary Committee, detailing how Britain’s authorities hounded him over online posts challenging trans ideology—exposing the chilling grip of censorship under Keir Starmer’s government.** His appearance underscores America’s growing scrutiny of Europe’s speech-stifling laws, with Linehan urging lawmakers to push back…

Member states should work on economic matters in small groups in the absence of unanimity, the European Commission president has said *European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. ©  Philipp von Ditfurth / picture alliance via Getty Images* [RT] European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a mechanism that would further water down the European Union unanimity requirement – a key pillar…

Czech PM Andrej Babis is the latest official to accuse British ex-PM Boris Johnson of insisting that Kiev shouldn’t seek peace Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has become the latest addition to a growing chorus of Western officials who are prepared to acknowledge the role Britain and the West played in sabotaging a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, the terms of which were far better for Kiev than those being discussed in…

*Alex Krainer* On Friday, 6 February 2025, President Trump’s envoy **Steve Witkoff**, son-in-law **Jared Kushner** and the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) **Admiral Brad Cooper** held negotiations with Iran’s delegation in Oman. The talks didn’t go well for the U.S. side as the Iranians apparently rejected all of their demands. The only positive outcome of the talks was that the two sides agreed to continue their discussions…