Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I never imagined I would be in favour of arming the Police but when situations change, so too must one’s opinion. We’re told a significant majority of police officers are in favour of being armed, hardly surprising given a quarter of the force
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Periodically we read of a foreign sports team or other group doing a haka, God only knows why as for me it’s arguably New Zealand’s greatest embarrassment. Still, each to their own. Nevertheless, whenever it occurs inevitably the newspapers show a grave looking
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Australia today has the pathetic honour of being the only country in the world which currently prohibits its citizens from foreign travel (excluding visiting New Zealand during the spasmodic bubble periods) without specific permission. They’re doing this under the provisions of the 2015 Biosecurity
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com If you think New Zealand’s bureaucracy is over the top, trust me, by Australian standards we’re mere apprentices. Both in New Zealand and Australia the worst of bureaucratic busy-bodism is not at central government level but is a local government phenomenon. My Sydney
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A lead Dominion-Post article yesterday, began, “New figures show Wellington’s soaring house prices may be stabilising but it is too early to say the market has peaked…” Where’s the bloody sub-editor? Analyse that sentence. It begins by saying the market is soaring. It
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The utter foolishness of so many academics is constantly brought to our attention. But it’s never been more disgracefully displayed than by Auckland university hierarchy’s sheer mind-blowing stupidity in condemning five of their number for speaking the truth, namely, there’s no such
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Bayleys Commercial Real Estate in Auckland is advertising an industrial building currently tenanted by a manufacturer. The large display newspaper advertisement describes it as a “Hard working industrial investment”. Precisely what work this alleged hard working building does is not explained. However, I’m prepared
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Professional gloomster Bernard Hickey, who it will be recalled spectacularly wrongly picked an imminent Auckland house price crash a decade back and sold up saying he would shift to Wellington, is at it again. He’s quoted (unsurprisingly) on the Stuff web-site saying “Past generations
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m old enough to vividly remember every election since 1949, which ushered in the first National government. I’d just turned ten and still recall my child’s shock on Sunday morning (the votes having been counted overnight) at the sight of my father’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A thought-inducing story for gullible New Zealander’s appeared in Britain’s Financial Times. It quoted Estonia’s attractive female Prime Minister Kaja Kallas saying, “lasting damage to western liberal democracies which adopted authoritarian measures during the pandemic could occur. Some countries had been slow
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Of all the silly speech affectations of the past few decades (it’s an inexplicable modern phenomenon) probably nothing is as bad as “window of opportunity”. In recent years this frequently has been shortened to just “window”. I’ve yet to read it when it
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com For those for whom reading is a key activity, language abuse smacks them in the nose when it’s encountered. I’ve written before about the commercial property agency practise of reinventing the language. This began about thirty years ago in Sydney then quickly spread
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In these troubled times a massive salve has been provided by sport and no more so than in Australia, the so-called lucky country. For me, the greatest game of all is test cricket and while Aussies may feel otherwise, they were privileged, as were we
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Australia today has the pathetic honour of being the only country in the world which currently prohibits its citizens from foreign travel (excluding visiting New Zealand during the spasmodic bubble periods) without specific permission. They’re doing this under the provisions of the 2015 Biosecurity
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Would the Stuff website run the above heading if, as would certainly not surprise anyone, it was true rather than made up by me? We know the answer to that. Stuff would not for above all else it would be overwhelmingly tasteless and inconsiderate. Yet
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Try and imagine the carry-on in Britain if its government announced special privileges for the original Anglo-Saxon and Celt citizens. Nearly 40% of today’s Brits are of non-traditional ethnicity. Take those of Indian ethnicity. They have the highest educational standards of all Britain’s
