Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com This totally redundant treaty, applying to circumstances nearly two centuries ago, has spawned a truly astonishing “industry” in claims as to what it meant, despite never actually saying as much. The latest and most absurd comes from something called the Health Coalition Aotearoa, specifically, (lie
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Grant Dalton is a true patriot. He’s under attack for taking the next Americas Cup offshore. I accept there are more boring so-called sporting spectacles, such as people in pajamas tugging at one anothers garments, otherwise known as judo, and certainly rifle-shooting, but by
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a bloke in Christchurch called Phil Mauger who wants to be mayor. I don’t like his chances. I say that as recently he made the news for spending $150,000 on a hydrogen-powered vehicle only to discover there’s no facility that
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Some time ago I predicted more books would be written about Trump than any other President. With circa 5,000 published to date, he’s currently in second place, although well behind Lincoln with 15,000. However, astonishing though it may seem, the production of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, an unbelievable Stuff headline yesterday with an underlying account how our Defence Minister, Peeni Henare, is “monitoring” the massive Russian troops build-up on Ukraine’s border. One can picture the scene in the Kremlin. A lackey bursts in to Putin’s office. “Terrifying
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A month before it began I wrote slamming the Glasgow climate conference as a show-ponies’ parade of parasites, epitomised by the NZ Green Party’s leader, Shaw, taking 10 no less delegates at readers expense. There is no way that can be explained other than
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In the recent National Party leadership scramble, some journalists promoted the case for Shane Reti. I was puzzled after all he’s been in Parliament for seven years without making any notable mark. Even more surprising was to read Reti’s credentials, raising the question
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The last decent Wellington mayor, Kerry Prendergast, writing of the city’s transport plans, said of light rail among other criticisms of it, “The proposal is driven by a small group of rail enthusiasts with nostalgic boyhood memories of trains”. By God, never a truer
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Whether the centralisation of water supply has merit, I cannot comment. However, announcement of the “working committee” to investigate the management of this is yet another nail in the government’s coffin. Why? Because it comprises three Labour mayors and nine Maori “representatives”, Maoris as
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com UPDATE: The NZ Herald debunked the premise of the below article. “A gang member in Hawke’s Bay does not have Covid-19. Or tattoos that Labour paid $150,000 to have removed. Not last week, anyway”. Taxpayers will be delighted to learn that Cabinet has
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Inflation is now with global warming, the big international news story to worry about post Covid. Most commentators see it as a one-off burst which I believe will be the situation in America, Asia and Western Europe. But in the developed world no country will
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A fascinating Listener article by Michael Cooper revealed a huge social change in New Zealand, specifically that our wine consumption has dropped by almost 40% over the last decade. If it was a 1% fall I’d put my hand up as the culprit. For
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The inside word is that Wellington’s Dominion-Post has surpassed its annual leading the field standard 12% circulation drop and last year lost an extraordinary 19% of subscribers. No surprise there after its ludicrous Maori wonderfulness nonsense every day. This once terrific newspaper is now
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com One of Wellington’s delights/horrors, depending on your mood, is reading the Dominion-Post, copies of which are sprayed about and thus free. Consider this week’s Monday issue. It contains a short interview with a local cricketer, Luke Georgeson, who is asked what he
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Go back a decade, or even only five years and newspaper story after story assured us we’d all be in driverless cars by 2020. As my company receives about $25million annually from car-parks in our office buildings I grilled my CEO on ideas for
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Justice Minister Kris Faafoi, announcing the government’s intention to abolish the three strikes law, demonstrated the all too common human failing of disrespect for logic. First, he cited two cases where the law was excessive to support the repeal. They don’t. They would
