Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Congratulations to Immigration Minister Michael Wood for refusing to ban British anti-trans activist Posie Parker speaking in New Zealand. The utterly fraudulent argument proffered by diverse sexually confused groups for the ban was that Parker’s presence would cause riots. And the reason they would
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The costly furore over amalgamating TVNZ and Radio NZ is specially amusing for me. That’s because over 3 decades ago they were one entity, Broadcasting NZ and I was one of the government appointed small committee formed to consider their splitting into separate entities.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com House prices are collapsing dramatically across the nation. As there’s approximately twice as many home-owners as renters, this is unwelcome news for most folk. Exactly two years ago on this blog I predicted this would occur as a direct result of some mind-blowingly stupid
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuart Nash is one of the more affable Government MPs. God knows what he’s doing in the Labour Party. A forestry expert with two forestry degrees and needless to say, like seemingly every typist, taxi driver, road worker etc, etc, the possessor of a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, a heading on a lengthy Stuff article filled with ridiculous gender stereotype assertions quoting some of our virtually aircraft-less air force personnel and diverse aviation figures. There’s another explanation which wasn’t considered, namely that being a commercial pilot is arguably the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Dr Melissa Derby is a no-nonsense part-Maori university academic mate of mine. Melissa shares my anathema to fashionable nonsensical group think, a specialty of Auckland university. The Roald Dahl saga has had lots of coverage but below are Melissa’s observations on it anyway. She’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back in the late 1980s the then Local Government Minister Michael Bassett instituted a major local government restructuring which with a couple of exceptions, gained justified public support. Specifically, he amalgamated the numerous small Councils which had evolved over the years, into larger and hopefully
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com As regular readers of this Blog will know I love newspapers and hugely regret their collapse in readership. By newspapers I mean in their physical form, a great deal of which content doesn’t appear on their website. In particular, I refer to the classified
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The press reported a drowning death, presumably a Maori, off Mana Island lying just south of Kapiti Island. Local unnamed Maoris then declared a 7 days Rahui, this a superstitious practise prohibiting the catching of fish in the area for a week. The police appealed
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Stuff site heading yesterday. “WOMEN OF INFLUENCE: DION NASH ON STEPPING AWAY AND HAVING TO COME BACK” I wondered why Dion disappeared from our cricket commentary teams. Now it transpires it was because he came out as a woman, according to Stuff. I was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Why do the media label former television host Liz Gunn a conspiracy theorist for opposing Covid vaccines? To be a conspiracy theorist one must believe there’s a sinister motive behind something. I gather that’s not Gunn’s position, rather she believes the vaccines
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Dominion-Post correspondent, John Argue of Greytown, recently had a letter published urging the removal of trout from our waters. Why? Because they compete for food with native eels, Argue asserted, adding that because the eels were here first, only they should have access to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The constant silly use of the word “Window” to convey a limited time period reached its peak absurdity last week in The Guardian. This was in an article about a missing woman which has gripped the British media, primarily with attacks on the police because
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff’s Political Editor Luke Malpass interviewed Christopher Luxon last week. He quoted Luxon saying to him, “the crime and looting in cyclone-hit areas is a pretty low-life, scumbag thing to do. The reality is YOU are taking advantage of Kiwis at their most vulnerable”
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com If I was a current Opposition Party Leader, below are some of the policies I’d initially announce to get the ball rolling. 1. Hold a referendum asking New Zealanders whether they want a name change for the nation. If more than half vote yes,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Kenya’s President William Ruto has called for a National Day of Prayer to end the drought. “We have seeds, fertiliser and water harvesting strategies. We now need God to send us rain”, Ruto said. Given these skybayers believe God is perfect in every sense
