Muriel Newman and her organisation NZCPR (New Zealand Centre for Political Research) have a long standing campaign to prevent a tribal takeover of NZ’s foreshore and seabed. With Muriel, we cover the danger to the governance of NZ ie, the Marine & Coastal Area Act, a common electoral role, media, radicalisation and its growth and the danger of a return to the Dark Ages. Share 240 with as many as you can. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a pod...
May 22, 2024•50 min
A sceptical knowledge-seeking society will always welcome controversy, criticism and inquiry, even about ostensibly long-settled ideas. And free expression plays an indispensable role in society, sorting truth from falsehood. Jonathan Rauch is a journalist, and author of a number of books. While a very pleasant interviewee, it will be interesting to see how many of you he will agitate. We make comment on Pope Francis; again, he is wrong. Two Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court issue warnings abou...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 18 min
We have an extensive interview with David Bell, on the expansion of the World Health Organisation’s powers and influence. He has worked for twenty years in biotech and international public health in numerous capacities, with over 120 research publications. David explains why New Zealand, and other countries, should stand their ground and refrain from signing on. It’s a very important discussion. In Podcast 238 we take a look at crime, Modern Monetary Theory and Law School ridiculousness. And vis...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 33 min
"Never before has New Zealand faced a constitutional contest like the one being played out right now.” The opening words to “Guns drawn as Waitangi Tribunal tangle whips up storm.” So began a column from The Australian. We discuss this scenario with retired judge Anthony Willy, and venture that it’s time to ditch the Waitangi Tribunal. But there's more. Also, separate comment on decline of the West, political and editorial bias in shaping climate science, and senility at the highest level! Mrs P...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 16 min
We received a record number of comments and questions after John Alcock’s discussion on Bitcoin in podcast 234. So in Podcast 236 he makes a return for a question and answer session and we remind you that this is not a promotion, but an attempt to inform. After the Wet and Forget sale, we reminisce and discover the benefits of hard work with Rod Jenden. And we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 28 min
In 2007, Documentary maker Martin Durkin produced “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. With 17 more years of predictions, Durkin has released “Climate: The Movie, The Cold Truth”. By utilising facts, statistics and some of the world’s leading scientists, Durkin shows why the science is still not settled. (Judge for yourself by searching the movie title free on line). UN climate official warns only ’two years’ to save the world from environmental crisis... again. Finally, we dip into The Mailroom ...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 33 min
John Alcock has a BSC and MSc from Otago. He also has an LLB from Auckland Uni of Technology. His time is presently devoted to matters crypto. He talks with us about Bitcoin, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s), and the progress by our own Reserve Bank. What he has to say in podcast 234, needs to be heard by all who care about freedom. There’s also comment on the approaching age of Neo Feudalism and the “take away” from the last four years. And finally, The Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File ...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 26 min
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand seems intent on establishing itself as WOKE Central, a centre of "diversity, equity and inclusion". In other parts of the finance industry, there is growing realisation that this DEI is not a good investment. Dr Mike Schmidt argues that DEI is an ideological program, and we see from numerous examples, both local and international, that the results are mixed and in most industries inappropriate. It is an informative and enjoyable discussion, finished off with The M...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Roger L Simon is a writer of books, both fiction and non-fiction. He was the founding CEO of PJ Media, but he is also a screenwriter of standing, a political commentator and columnist with the Epoch Times. We talked about his column, “What it Means That We are Not Reading Books”, but it became a wide ranging discussion. We have commentary on Natan Sharansky and the murder of Alexei Navalny, and Covid: what we should never forget. And finally, The Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your comments an...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 17 min
The Jim Allan commentary on the NZ Supreme Court’s Smith v Fonterra decision (Podcast 229) encouraged considerable reaction from the 'court of the pen’. Foremost was correspondence from Gary Judd KC, who not only communicated to us but published a corresponding article in The Law Association’s LawNews. Gary Judd expands on his views in podcast 231. Even a legal novice will find interest in it. Elsewhere we have commentary on “saving the planet”, and the New York Democrat endorsing Trump. And we ...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 22 min
George Friedman, founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, is in the studio with us this week. And there’s plenty to discuss; wars and rumours of more wars. Possible peace in Ukraine, Star Wars, politics and crises, and the part New Zealand has to play. Also, George’s book “The Storm before the Calm” which predicted the 2020’s would be turmoil for America. Are his predictions on target? And a new analysis of the death of John F Kennedy which, if correct, indicates collusion amongst America’s...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The legal fraternity in this part of the world is delighted at the Supreme Court’s decision on Smith v Fonterra. But not everyone feels that way. In his inevitable style, Professor James Allan critiques the decision and the direction a collection of un-elected ex-lawyers are “usurping power to themselves at the expense of the elected branches of government”. As a specialist in constitutional law, Jim is in his element. We also spend words on SCOTUS and Trump. An important and essential commentar...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 47 min
Canadian Jonathan Roth, founder of Resource Wars, recently recorded an interview with the former Mossad Chief Efraim Halevy. He did not get the answers he was expecting. Roth maintains that "progress and wealth are impossible without resources. All empires rise and fall based upon access to resources. He provides perspectives on investing, global politics, technology and the future. We critique NZTA’s plans to restrict citizen's rights to free movement, while simultaneously hitting us in the poc...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Bitcoin trail blazed the interest and development of digital money. As a result, the drive for a cashless society with fiat currency being replaced with CBDCs is being pursued by an increasing number of countries. Currently, that count is a worrying 130. The ultimate goal is a one world currency. We discuss all of this with Aaron Day, author of “The Final Countdown, the People’s Last Stand Against Tyranny by Central Bank Digital Currencies”. We comment on Grant Robertson and his new home at the ...
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 29 min
If, like me, you love venturing into unknown territory and investigating challenges that are essentially beyond us, then here’s a question.. As we know, time goes forward, but can it go back? Physicist Tom Sheahen explains how to expand human thinking and step up to a higher plane of understanding. It is a challenging but most interesting interview. You may not agree with all he says, but, in the words of Albert Einstein, “I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details”. We ruminate over fr...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 28 min
After six years of being mismanaged on so many fronts, New Zealand requires firm direction. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, opens up on our relationship with the U.S., the Middle East, China and Russia. We discuss the Covid inquiry, the WHO, the state of the world and New Zealand’s place in it. And we visit the first (very full) Mailroom of the year with Mrs Producer. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podca...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. Three NZ academics have recently written that NZ’s Tertiary Education Sector is in deep financial crisis, and that our universities are losing their best people. At the same time a new private institution, the University of Austin, Texas, is prepping for its opening. We speak with Jacob Howland, Director of the Intellectual Foundation Program from the university, on how ideology has poisoned the West. Fil...
Jan 30, 2024•59 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. Ramesh Thakur, Emeritus Professor of the Crawford School of Public Policy. He has held academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand (Otago), Canada and Australia. He has also worked at the U.N. We traverse COVID, the U.S. 2024 election, the W.H.O., climate, and the assault on liberties, freedoms and human rights. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast be...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. Professor James Allan returns to discuss our election, Jordan Peterson, The Voice, and Trumps legal challenges. Jim encourages any so-called conservative parties to “fight the culture wars”. Has any party in New Zealand got the required courage? Is there “weaponised collusion” between The White House and the DOJ? And what are the top universities and law schools teaching? It’s a broad and energetic conver...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. In a world of lies, scepticism is your friend. David Bell is a Public Health Physician and biotech consultant in global health. What he has to say should be heard by every thinking person in this country, and every other “free” state on the planet. As the World Health Organisation meets to convince countries to endorse changes to it’s original purpose, Dr Bell warns that “the WHO has changed and now it is...
Jan 09, 2024•58 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. Stephen Jennings is a Kiwi expat. His first job after university was with Treasury in 1984, a noted time of economic and political change. Jennings life has centred around change ever since. Working in Australia and NZ, followed by London and in 1992, Moscow until 2013. Now he’s building cities in Africa. His critique of New Zealand’s ongoing malaise needs to be heard. File your comments and complaints at...
Jan 02, 2024•56 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. Science is in trouble. Facts have taken a back seat to ideology, and political activism masquerades as scholarship. We live in an age of increasing unreason. Can science be saved? John Staddon, Professor of Biology and Psychology and “battle-scarred” by decades of experience, urges scientists to resist the demands for their unconditional surrender. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb....
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023. AGAINST THE GREAT RESET; 18 THESES CONTRA THE NEW WORLD ORDER… In one of the most informative and enjoyable interviews, we talk with editor and contributor Michael Walsh. He and sixteen eminent writers contributed a total of eighteen chapters on the World Economic Forum. Each author wrote on a different aspect; for example, the socialist history of woke capitalism, big tech and government censorship, and ...
Dec 19, 2023•48 min
The events in Israel on October 7 shocked the world. The differing reactions from various countries, cultures, races and religions should have shocked just as much. The lack of historical knowledge and perspective exposed the thin veneer of civilisation. The similarities and differences of AD 70 to 2023 indicate that while some things change, human nature doesn’t. Via the writing of Josephus, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Douglas Murray, we can improve perspective. File your comments and complaints...
Dec 12, 2023•41 min
Daniel Hannan sat as a Conservative MEP for 21 years. During that period he made countless speeches, usually berating the European Parliament itself. He was arguably one of the best members of the European Parliament. Daniel was keen to discuss matters Covid, the new government in NZ, and the Israeli crisis. And we finish up in The Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Li...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 15 min
'The Treason of the Experts’, by Thomas Harrington, underscores the need to apply intellectual discernment on all pressing questions in a case-by-case manner. Tom suggests that having more educational credentials is no guarantee against the danger of believing in stories that seriously distort our understanding of empirical facts. We visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer, and we conclude with post-election commentary from “a former National MP" File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newsta...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 35 min
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is the brainchild of Dr Jordan Peterson. It had its inaugural conference in London at the end of October. There were 1500 attendees from over 100 countries; including the author of “Unsettled”, Professor Steve Kooning, Viveck Ramaswamy, Michael Shellenberger, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and so many more. Nick Cater was also there, and explains the purpose and ambition of the ARC. We comment on what appears to be the rapid advance of Central Banks Digital Curren...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 20 min
It’s not just national government that should concern us. Local government should concern us too. Auckland has spent an inordinate amount of time and money trying to become a world class city. But still, Auckland's problems seem to grow. From a growing debt issue to expanding bureaucracy and rebellious councillors. Who’s in charge? Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown opens up on Podcast 220. We reference a new NZ authored book on Climate, and we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your comments an...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Three weeks post election, and we are still no nearer to knowing what the final make up of the government will be. We speak with Steven Joyce, in what we thought might be a half hour chat. But even after his barking dog was edited from the interview, we still had fifty minutes of discussion on the incompetence that saw Labour outed, and the rectification that is now sorely needed. We tackle the second segment of Lord Jonathan Sumption; in actual fact, the part that we find the most interesting. ...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 32 min
In July this year we spoke with Jonathan Sumption, and we catch up with him again during his trip to New Zealand. In the interim there has been a lot of change that is worthy of his opinion - the Hamas attack, Israel’s response, and the associated reactions provide a hornet’s nest of issues. We communicate with Patrick Basham in Riyadh, attending the Future Investment Initiative, also known as “Davos of the Desert”. The consensus of the 6000 attendees is that the FII serves the planet far better...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 30 min
