Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recent calls from predictable sources to emulate Britain and introduce a one-off “windfall tax” on petrol companies, are massively ill-considered. An important principle of any tax system is consistency. Ad hoc “one-off” taxes are contrary to that principle. Participation in market economies, be it owning
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Iranian born Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, in a newspaper interview, described herself as “a woman of colour.” What colour she did not say. That term usually applies to people of negro, Indian, Polynesian and Melanesian ethnicity. Sometimes it’s said of Orientals although the vast
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A quarter of a century ago I wrote a comic novel “Full Circle.” Last week I re-read it for the first time in at least a decade and came across this passage. The speaker is a young oceanographer. “I’ve decided the global warming hysteria
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently the Guardian Weekly ran a feature on the weird phenomenon of bicycles being tossed into canals, rivers, lakes and so on. It’s literally world-wide behaviour and the article cited examples from everywhere. I’ve certainly noticed this over the years in Sydney’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Scanning the web I read this outrage on the NZ Herald site. Quote: “A respected businessman allegedly pilfered … and spent the money on he and his wife’s …“ and further, “the man is also accused of overpaying he and his wife by …” God help us
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week blood-curdling screaming saw the Police storming the Dominion-Post’s offices, there to find and release a sub-editor being subjected to a brutal flogging. My how he’d sinned. It transpired he’d run an item he should never have allowed to be published,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A problem facing political journalists is finding something fresh to say, the operative word being fresh. For example, a bad policy can only be condemned so many times. Thus, something like the Uffindel nonsense, namely he being booted out of school aged 16, is given
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The global pandemic flushed up a seeming interesting reality. At its height, television newsreaders all wore face-masks. I found that ludicrous as they were obviously well-clear of the camera crew, but perhaps that excessive caution reflected the then pervading fear of covid. I don’t
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Labour insider zealot Shane Te Pou writes regular Labour wonderfulness stories in the NZ Herald. I’m astonished the paper runs them as they’re so nonsensical and predictable. Then again, given the government is a source of so much mug taxpayer revenue in ridiculous
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Few people would disagree that Julian Assange is a deeply unpleasant human being. Writer Andrew O’Hagen, employed by Assange to ghost-write his “autobiography”, spent months with him and has nothing nice to say about him, indeed very much to the contrary. So too many
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent Listener feature article dealt with the attempts to create imitation meat with meaty flavours but composed entirely of vegetables. Mentioned a few times re the advantages which would accrue (global warming, greater productivity etc) was “ending animal exploitation.” That’s shallow thinking. The
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In the recent years clamour over the soaring costs of houses when related to incomes, two salient factors are overlooked. The first is that house-building is a highly labour intensive activity. When I was a child living in a Lower Hutt state house district, for
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com That is the question arising from a recent New Zealand Herald’s lead website story’s heading. First, to explain. Journalists don’t write the headings for their stories the reason being to prevent repetition. This calls on the sub-editors who compose the headings to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com J.K. Rowling is constantly attacked by wokists for supposed trans-phobia. She’s a wordsmith so would be specially sensitive to the correct use of language. In her rightly arguing there are only two sexes and the fact that some people believe they’ve been
