Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Some years ago, reporting a discussion with my then 15 year old Australian son as to his ambitions, an Asian refugee woman said, “He want to go to university and do history degree, then go to New Zealand, join company and “learn rope”. She came
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com God help us all – More contrived offence-taking nonsense from Foolish Foon just when I hoped he was improving. Commenting (needless to say) on the harmless quip by Sky Sports commentator Joe Wheeler to the Otago rugby captain’s praise of their star Japanese player, despite
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The media in their usual slap-dash manner have all reported Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles as the New Zealander of the Year. She is no such thing. Our smallest trading bank has made that declaration and has no more legitimacy to do so than Joe’s Patea
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The recent announcement that the New Zealand birth-rate is below the rate of population maintenance passed with surprising little comment. In our case it’s marginal compared with other nations but the fact remains that our population has been sustained in recent decades through large-scale
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I once generously offered well-known Wellington property developer Ian Cassels to have him lashed daily with barb-wire, this solely out of kindness. I did that, assuming he’d like it as it’s a constant source of amazement to me why developers pursue such a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above was a heading in last week’s Hutt Valley weekly newspaper, The Hutt News. It appeared over opinion pieces from respectively, new Labour MP Arena Williams and National MP Stuart Smith, these probably written a week before publication. Stuart correctly pointed to the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon, who I dubbed Foolish Foon after his recent outburst against the Police, will have learnt a valuable lesson from the widespread criticism he copped. That is how quickly public sentiment changed from contempt to respect by doing as he has
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On face value the government’s attack on new residential landlords by denying interest deductibility has merit. The initiative will achieve its goals of lowering prices and also make it much easier for owner-occupier home seekers. It’s difficult to argue against these steps as
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Feel for India’s Royal Challengers Bangalore cricket team who must be burning up after forking out nearly $3 million to secure Kyle Jamieson for the IPL series. This followed the Kiwi bowler’s success against first the West Indies and then Pakistan’s half-hearted
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foolish Foon must by a country mile be the worst such office-holder since the position was established. His latest idiotic outburst against the Police as racist for allegedly picking on maoris saw him put firmly in his place by Former Police
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above is an extraordinary heading from last Saturday’s New Zealand Herald. The Herald must have a sub-editing policy of only employing the deeply retarded. For in fact the issue had absolutely nothing to do with mocking Trump’s son, rather it solely related
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Wellington MP Nicola Willis hit the news this week with her claim of feeling unsafe in Wellington’s CBD. I’ve heard this repeatedly in recent weeks. So what’s occurred to suddenly bring about this state of affairs? Nicola knows but being a typical
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Government has run full-page newspapers advertisements saying, “We have secured enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine for everyone 16 years and over…” “Secured!” That’s an ambiguous word which I suggest most folk would not unreasonably interpret in this context as actually possessing the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Auckland commercial property developer Ted Manson has recently built some high rise buildings containing small CBD apartments. A number of these he’s allocated to a 15 year lease to the state at a discounted rental, as a charitable gesture (to the taxpayer). Manson has
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Nearly four decades ago, in 1984 I wrote a novel “The Permit”. Given its sales success, driven in part by 1984 being a super-charged political year, I imagine many folk have read it. Its salient theme was the pack-hunting behaviour of political journalists which I’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The government is giving $55 million of taxpayers money to support what it describes as public interest media. The obvious danger of this is it will compromise recipients’ political comments. To deny that is naive and invites cynicism. But what puzzles me is why, alone
