Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It will not be lost on the government, like all political participants with their finger always in the wind, that the latest lockdown has been badly received. That said, I feel it was justified in Auckland given the wide-spread movements of the culprit family. In
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A primary role of Opposition Parties in our adversarial system, is to hold the government to account for its actions. Nominally, the current Opposition comprises the National Party and ACT. The always cautious Nats are currently missing in action, as they’ve always been wherever
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Facebook-Australian furore drew world-wide media condemnation. I don’t get it. The claim that Facebook should pay for publishing traditional media news stories was fair enough if that’s what the tech giant was doing, but it was not. Rather, it acted as a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Inspired (predictably) by the Greens who have busy-bodism in their DNA, and backed by a petition which 157,000 New Zealanders signed and 4,990,000 did not, the government intends banning conversion therapy, that is the practise by some fringe Christian groups of endeavouring
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our two home test series, first against the West Indies and then Pakistan late last year, lacked sparkle as the outcomes were never in doubt. But not so across the Tasman. Many commentators claim the tests series between Australia and India was the greatest ever
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The acronym, “FOMO”, or “Fear Of Missing Out”, accurately describes the current irrationality by so-called “little people”, buying into the likes of Tesla, Afterpay and Bitcoin, all entities without a scintilla of justification for their booming share-prices. FOMOists are today’s equivalent to the 1929
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Yesterday, New Zealand time, wrecked and ruined Lebanon and Zimbabwe begin injecting their people with anti-coronavirus vaccines. Hang on a minute. How’s that possible given our Health Minister said not once, but twice back in October, that we’re at the head of the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com With damn good reason I mock the Dominion- Post but in fairness, it’s not all bad and has some good political journos. It offers other pleasures as well. One is the Saturday edition’s full-page advertisement by an employment agency called Jackson Stone Partners.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In his self-described state of the nation address to Party members last weekend, ACT leader David Seymour came out with some world-class tosh. Referring to the housing supply crisis, he said, “…you’ve just overseen the greatest transfer of wealth from those who work to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com My reading preference is fiction, particularly authors such as Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Damon Runyan, Alan Bennett etc who wrote humour. Waugh was the all-time master and his 1930s novels are for me, the best fiction ever created. With non-fiction the more esoteric the subject, the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Arts Minister Carmel Sepuloni has advised the government is looking at introducing an art resale scheme although why she didn’t say. This was considered back in 2007 then wisely shelved. The fact it exists in other parts of the world is not justification.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Maori Council has called for the government to intervene against short term rental platforms such as Airbnb, to combat soaring rentals in the rental housing shortage. Putting aside the general undesirability of controls in any activity, would this alleviate the situation? Airbnb and its
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Southern Wairarapa mayor Alex Beijen, has started a petition to demand the government order banks to open branches in small towns. Beijen lives in Martinborough with a population of less than 2000. The region’s other small towns have similar numbers. The mayor invented
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com An international row broke out yesterday in Europe, with the European Union crying unfair and accusing Britain of hogging access to coronavirus vaccines at the expense of EU nations. Boris countered, saying it’s a contractual matter which they expect to be honoured. Plainly Britain
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com January 26 2021 A week ago on this Blog I wrote, “We’re now in a fingers crossed situation, hoping that the new rapid mutation transmission variety doesn’t hit our shores. That’s not something I’d bet on”. As it transpired that was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com “Your 20-year wait is over-Parnell Waterfront” was a recent Bayleys heading for an Auckland residential property. First, why 20 years? Are potential buyers who’ve spent say only 12 years looking for such a property disqualified? But worse is their redefinition of the term “waterfront”
