'Sir' Ashley Bloomfield, formerly Director General of Health and the public face of COVID-19 in New Zealand, has taken to the media to warn us that another pandemic will be flying our way courtesy of Bird Flu.  Listen to Guy's audio version here. An article in Stuff newspaper reports that Bloomfield wants us to 'prepare for the worst in the not too distant future'. Apparently, Bloomfield thinks that the main lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic five years on amounts to being ready for the next virus to jump from animals to humans. The interviewer, TFN host Paddy Gower, inexplicably forgot to remind Bloomfield that we now know that COVID-19 escaped from...

After fifty years of broken biotech promises, we need a dose of reality.  I was working in the garden yesterday and cleared a few noxious weeds. Tiny stumps of would be trees like wooly nightshade which we cut down to the ground a month ago had sprouted anew and I wondered at the persistence of nature. Those tiny stumps of returning life illustrated one of the great marvels of natural law—the whole is contained in every part. Look at any seed, it contains the whole tree but you can't see the WHOLE in the seed, it is not just too tiny, it is too abstract. Simultaneously, the whole is...

New Zealand Constitutional Reform—The Need of Our Times Sometimes in life, we find ourselves at a moral crossroads. On the path of our development as...

After fifty years of broken biotech promises, we need a dose of reality.  I was working in the garden yesterday and cleared a few noxious...