Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s long overdue for the Dominion-Post to take on competent sub-editors. A blaring headline last week, spread over two pages boldly claimed, “Nitrates In Water Kill 40 Kiwis A Year: Study”. The accompanying story by the paper’s Science Writer Amber Allott, made no
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The problem with democracy is its participation is most attractive to people who cannot attain any meaningful level of achievement in the outside world. This hard reality is constantly exhibited, most recently by an Auckland City Councillor Cathy Casey, aided and abetted by two other
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A ragtag parade of several thousand hit the capital yesterday, led by an intellectual wing, namely the nation’s greatest losers; maori gang motor-cyclists with their collective bravery in numbers to provide reassurance that they’re tough buggers. Tough buggers stand on their own feet
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A 22 year old Glasgow based daughter called me last week to recount an amusing incident. To escape the horrors of the 30,000 blowhards despoiling the city she’d popped over to my Parisian apartment and had gone downstairs that evening to a very
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff, always good for a laugh, report that in three decades of owning a travel agency, a Wellington woman Petra Otte has dealt with “financial crises, terrorist attacks, volcano eruptions and to top it all off, the Covid 19 pandemic”. This is a huge shift
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In my view the stand-out successor to P.G. Wodehouse in writing timeless comical stories is undoubtably Garrison Keillor. Timeless, because of their underlying basic innocence in which the worst villains are likely to be a fat school-boy or bossy aunt in Wodehouse’s case
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Cath has gone and you’ve read the obits so no need for me to remind readers of her many accomplishments. But I can add a couple of tales. A few days after the announcement of her becoming our first female Governor General, I spoke
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Gisborne function centre owner is claiming $5,000 from the Prime Minister and her partner for cancelling holding their wedding there. This followed a disagreement over the catering arrangements. It’s time this buffoon grew up and the media stopped giving him coverage. Every
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Somali born Moslem fanatic who recently murdered a highly respected British MP will doubtless receive a life imprisonment sentence. Compare that to the recent case here of a low-life convicted for threatening to murder a National MP. He was “sentenced” to six months home
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Chinese migrant couple have been denied New Zealand residency, allegedly as “an enduring national security risk”, and because “they may seek to assist the PRCIS (People’s Republic of China Intelligence Service) again”, this according to the idiotic Immigration Department. With their two children
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Well done to Murray Bolton for challenging the Government’s ludicrous refusal to allow incoming vaccinated Kiwis to isolate at home, and congratulations to Justice Geoffrey Venning for directing MBIE to reconsider this. In fact as public servants MBIE are simply following the government’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The death of Colin Powell through Covid, but compounded by increasing dementia, reminded us of what a fine example he was to the world. He never let his early life living in Philadelphian slums as the son of Jamaican migrant parents hold him back from
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Pandora Papers beat-up revealed, not the terrible scandal the international group of newspapers behind the loudly proclaimed “revelation”, but rather the desperate state of the print media fighting for its survival. So Putin’s a crook with massive assets hidden behind a trust. For
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The giant Merck pharmaceutical company has announced production of its covid “booster pill” which it has successfully tested. It’s abundantly clear that boosters are critical, our Pfizer vaccines losing strength within six months. While no doubt Covid Minister Hipkins will trot out our “head
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Glasgow Climate Change Conference is about to begin as 30,000 spongers descend on the city. My Glasgow office tells me Glaswegians are not well pleased at the inconvenience to them on a number of counts. A daughter living in my Glasgow home tells
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m told my name and photo has popped up once again on a website endorsing crypto-currency speculation. The fact that promoters resort to fraudulent puffery says everything about the absence of merit of this non-commodity. The underlying value of crypto-currencies is nil. History is
