Solid Ground - 18 June 2026

In this episode of Solid Ground, Simon celebrates a pro-life win in South Australia, although notes the next stages will be difficult. He also agrees with the changes to New Zealand’s medical council leadership, noting that professional groups should not be imposing often contentious political and cultural views on members. Keeping in the positive spirit, he thanks Winston Peters for recent directions to MFAT to focus on its core job, and not promoting some causes and not others. He then turns his attention to Erica Stanford’s comment that a U16 social media response is coming in a few weeks and her calling out immigration officials who misled her. Simon agrees with viewers that all involved with this misleading should be sacked. He ends with a quick discussion of why the TV series, Doctor Who, has effectively been cancelled after replacing its popular storytelling with woke narratives, diversity hires, and endless political lectures.