Articles by Ryan Bridge
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Opinion
Ryan Bridge: Is the patch ban going to solve the underlaying causes of gang crime?
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 9:09amEveryone hates gangs. Unless you're in them, you hate them because they intimidate, they cause misery, they beat their wives,...
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Ryan Bridge: The hīkoi was a good example of democracy working
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 10:13amDemocracy is a delicate and fragile thing, and yesterday's protest was a good example of it working. People oppose something,...
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Ryan Bridge: The price we must pay for living in a democracy
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 7:34amCommuter chaos. It's one of the prices we must pay for living in a democracy. I know this won't be popular with Aucklanders...
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Ryan Bridge: The Kiwi trying to stop the Trump tariffs
Friday, 8 November 2024, 7:41amRosemary Banks – remember that name. She now has one of the most important jobs for New Zealand – a potentially $2 billion...
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Ryan Bridge: The Government is stuck between a rock and a hard place
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 8:12amTrying to control kid criminals – you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. This week, a document from children's...
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Ryan Bridge: Is the Mike King situation really a big deal?
Friday, 1 November 2024, 7:48amYou can't say you care about and want to hear from people with so-called 'lived experience' and then dismiss them when you...
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Ryan Bridge: The stories about violence in New Zealand are infuriating
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 7:32amI'm getting really angry reading these stories about violence in New Zealand, and I don't think that harsher sentences are...
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Ryan Bridge: Confused advice from the Ministry for Social Development
Monday, 21 October 2024, 8:42amCouple of stories in the news today, one of them and I'll just read you the first line from this story. "Ministry of Social...
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Ryan Bridge: Name me one Prime Minister who is in touch
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 7:34amSo Luxon is out of touch apparently. Name me one politician, one Prime Minister, one President in the world who's in touch,...
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Ryan Bridge: Chris Hipkins - Is his heart still in it?
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 8:45amThe latest 1News-Verian poll was out last night. There wasn't a lot of change, other than a dip in the personal popularity...
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Ryan Bridge: We're all living much longer - but at what cost?
Monday, 14 October 2024, 8:53amWe're all living much longer, aren't we? At what cost? That's my question for you this morning. A report out over the weekend...
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Ryan Bridge: We're not too poor to buy property, we're too fussy
Friday, 11 October 2024, 8:22amIf these new TradeMe numbers are to be believed, and I have no reason not to believe them, then the biggest problem that...
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Ryan Bridge: What's the harm in the public knowing what went wrong on HMNZS Manawanui?
Monday, 7 October 2024, 8:16amWhy? It's the question we all want answered this morning. But what we'll get is a bunch of speculation. The first most important...
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Ryan Bridge: The hysteria over Casey Costello's handling of smoking
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 7:43amThe real proof will be in the pudding – if smoking rates come down, does it matter how she did it? If it was a non-tobacco...
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Ryan Bridge: Businesses are the forgotten victims of the capital gains debate
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 7:28amSo Luxon is back in the news. Bryce Edwards written a piece saying our members of parliament own 2.3 homes per MP - more...
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Ryan Bridge: Why have we designated Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist entity, but not the political wing?
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 11:08amThe Government's refusing to say if it will designate Hezbollah's political wing as a terrorist entity. In a statement to...
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Ryan Bridge: Nothing solves global conflict like a good UNGA session
Friday, 27 September 2024, 10:01amThank God the UN General Assembly is underway in New York. Nothing solves global conflict like a good UNGA session. I've...
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Ryan Bridge: Greenpeace protest - Just hang your banner and piss off
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 8:16amIt's time I reckon we started sending bills to those protesters for wasting police time and resources. I watched yesterday...
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Ryan Bridge: Cycle bridges to nowhere and consultant money scrambles don't feel like love to me
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 7:31amTory Whanau's admission she sold her car to help keep on top of the bills is ironic, given she's the mayor of a city now...
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Ryan Bridge: Why you should care about a U.S. delegation heading to China
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 8:02amHere's why we should care about what sounds like a bit of an obscure trip from some U.S. officials to Beijing this week. They...
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Ryan Bridge: Christopher Luxon has reason to smile this morning
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 7:37amChristopher Luxon has reason to smile this morning – there are two sets of data to cheer about. First, the poll. He's shaking...
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Ryan Bridge: I'm not against publicly funding our politicians' wardrobes
Monday, 16 September 2024, 8:57amOver in the UK, Labour's leader was using private donations to pay for his wife's wardrobe. She had personal shoppers, clothes...
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Ryan Bridge: The real fool from the debate was New Zealand
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 8:17amPeople seem to think Kamala Harris made a fool of Trump in the debate, but real fool was us, New Zealand. Within 24 hours...
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Ryan Bridge: Another MP struggling to grasp the realities of running a small business
Wednesday, 11 September 2024, 8:14amA wild, bizarre, and highly entertaining media scrum took pace in Wellington yesterday, culminating with an MP saying he...
