Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The New Zealand Royal Society continues to disgrace its British parent body’s prescribed rationale of absolute respect for factual scientific evidence, every time it touches on Maori issues Its latest unadulterated nonsense, published over the heading “New Research Shows Maori Travelled to the Antarctic
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Since I opted not to renew my subscription to Wellington’s Dominion-Post last year, I’ve kept readers informed of the consequences. Up until a month ago I’d received spasmodically, six letters from this extraordinarily incompetent outfit, all signed by different names, and all
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com What a marvellous victory by the Black Caps, despite both sides missing some of their stars. As one gets older nationalist sentiments in sport fades and is replaced by underdogism. For example, if the All Blacks lost to Italy I’d be elated. Lifelong Aussie
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com With hundreds of millions of people now vaccinated against Covid there’s no sensible reason why we can’t open our borders to them. Our tourist industry needs it desperately and so does the nation. Tourism pre-Covid was our major foreign exchange earner. Printing money
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Saturday the Stuff website lauded itself for its “ground-breaking journalism”, as it reported how it has cleaned up the night before at the Voyager journalism awards. This is a long established annual entertainment spectacle. Experience saw me instantly shift to the Herald web-site and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A fortnight back, Bill Ralston, writing in the New Zealand Herald, took a short-sighted gratuitous swipe at Bishop Tamaki’s assertion that Christchurch’s earthquakes are caused by God’s wrath at homosexuality. Frankly, this sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Here’s an analogy to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com An extraordinary article in a recent Economist put the foreign exchange revenue yielded from British courts at an amount slightly higher than all of New Zealand’s export earnings from all sources. In one sense this is dismaying as it reflects the mainly corruption-caused inadequacies
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The New Zealand Herald reports how a non-member of the Greymouth Christian community Gloriavale, is seeking a judicial intervention in the community’s managing Trust and the removal of the current trustees. This is preposterous. There are tens of thousands of registered Trusts in New
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A New Zealand Herald correspondent Jon Stafford of Hastings, wrote that “he has nothing but praise for how Jacinda Ardern… handled the White Island explosion”. So here’s a challenge for Jon Stafford. Tell us precisely what Jacinda did re White Island. As soon as
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A full page advertisement in the New Zealand Herald on behalf of a Queen Street watch retailer, The Hour Glass, offers advice on “how to achieve greatness”. I cannot recall ever reading greater gibberish. The advert shows the deeply unpleasant spectacle of David Beckham’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It will be recalled last year shortly after STUFF was sold for a dollar to a Christchurch woman and a new female editor was appointed for the Dominion Post, then as with its New Zealand wide fleet of papers, all with collapsing circulations, an extraordinary
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seemingly daily we read of GP misdiagnosis costing lives. From long experience I would say this. First; understand that GP’s are, general practitioners with the emphasis on “general”. That is they can only really deal effectively with relatively minor obvious issues. If a GP
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In 2004 my comic novel “Degrees For Everyone” was published. Its salient theme was the decline in universities of legitimate academic subjects and the growth in their place of non-academic nonsense studies. I centred the plot around a fictitious Rubenesque Studies Department targeting fat girls
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com With the media in age-old pack-hunting mode all putting the boot into Mallard, an excellent point lost on them was made by the ever astute Damien Grant in the Sunday Times. He made the correct observation that no-one’s infallible and it’s accepted of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The media have played up as “news” the ridiculous Air Force Court Martial of a woman called Nicole Leger. Nicole sounds a goer having got drunk and allegedly made sexual overtures to various people at a private social function. The sexual charges are pre-fixed as
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was delighted to read the opponents of Waiheke’s first marina have been given a well deserved boot up the bum by the Supreme Court and that the proposed Kennedy Point marina is to proceed. What is it about this country that no matter
