Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When the public learnt Jacinda was (wisely) pulling stumps, I suspect few if any New Zealanders would have picked Chris Hipkins as her successor. Chris subsequently claimed how thick he was with Jacinda to explain his shock elevation. It’s nonsense. No one was closer
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com “The Warehouse starts selling fresh fruit, veges” The above, a recent Stuff site heading, reflecting the financially pressed Stuff’s inability to afford competent sub-editors. There are two possible interpretations from that heading for it to be justified as news. One is that hitherto the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When I suggested recently that the media ask Chris Hipkins, why given our current record covid infection numbers and deaths, if it was a good idea to throw the country into a ludicrously punitive lockdown in 2020, 2021 and 2022, it’s not now? Some
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last year I issued a warning about an investment proposition being advertised aimed at the unsophisticated. I say that as anyone with a scintilla of investment knowledge would laugh at it. This is by an Auckland outfit calling themselves MATES INVEST which enquiry revealed was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Currently, debate is occurring in Auckland re the location of a cruise ship terminal. Newspaper correspondents and commentators all talk of the economic benefit from a suitable facility, stemming from the tourists retail spending. The reality is very different. Wellington currently cops circa 130 cruise
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Prime Minister Hipkins is currently getting a free ride with the bored media trying to promote him as an appealing fresh new broom. He’s anything but that. Take the invention of a hitherto unheard nick-name “Chippy”, this to induce a likeable character, “one
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week I reported on a Lower Hutt funeral parlour’s ludicrous advertising message in its weekly half page advertisement. This it will be recalled, was, “IS DEALING WITH A LOCALLY OWNED FUNERAL HOME IMPORTANT TO YOU?” We constantly read of incidents involving assumed corpses
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com To date over 40% of our population have now been infected with covid and circa 1500 currently cop it each new week. Some die, some suffer a nasty flu-like reaction, others are virtually unaffected. Mask-wearing is now almost unknown. As with the rest of the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In December a news report from Auckland claimed the city was experiencing a massive increase in insects, this attributed to the record 2022 rainfall. That may be so but it’s certainly not the case in Wellington. As elsewhere the capital also notched up a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In my local newspaper a funeral director runs a half page advertisement with a single large type message. That is, “IS DEALING WITH A LOCALLY OWNED FUNERAL HOME IMPORTANT TO YOU?” Now I’m reasonably imaginative but for the life of me, try as I
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com If Waitangi Day truly carried the significance for New Zealanders as the media presents it, instead of its reality, namely another paid holiday off work, then it would manifest itself accordingly with celebrations across the land. It does not. Instead a bunch of victims who
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com As I’ve frequently written before, ignore political polls. Their format simply no longer works, not just here but everywhere. They’ve been wrong for a decade now in 70% of elections and often dramatically astray. In my view, the only things which will save
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Tuesday week a non-descript politics lecturer Chris Wilson joined in the nonsense being written about the pressure on Jacinda through social media abuse and death threats. Specifically, he claimed in the Herald it was massively higher than other prominent political figures copped. That’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Chris Hipkins is copping the standard new PM honeymoon treatment from the media, albeit somewhat muted. It won’t last and the government will be thrashed in October. The only thing which can save it is World War 3 breaking out. Chris massively fails an
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In over six decades involving billions of dollars of commercial property investment in over 50 cities and many countries, I’ve sometimes encountered some pretty dumb propositions. But never ever have I seen a commercial property investment proposition more disgracefully ignorant than one currently being
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above conference as always, will attract much media attention. It’s all fairly predictable. Some show-pony rich attendees will call for wealth taxes solely to get publicity as to their goodness, but safe in the knowledge that no one present will agree. Various predictable
