Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Half a century back newspapers were everyone’s principal news source. But in the face of the new digital option with its immediacy, they’ve gone over like ninepins and the handful surviving, knowing the game is up, are all actively trying to build a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m constantly bemused by sloppy writing from academics. Consider this sentence by a (deservedly) respected Oxford University history Professor, Tom Holland, writing last year in The Spectator. Straying off topic, Tom slipped in the following plug for his forthcoming book. “Early next month sees
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a part Maori bloke in Wellington with that fine old Maori surname of McIntyre-Wilson, who is apparently a talented jewellery designer. Recently he was given the job of designing a new children’s playground in the capital’s waterfront Frank Kitt’s park.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Early last year Stuff journo Andrea Vance wrote an article describing how a number of New Zealand (or to her, Aotearoa) university anthropologists were deeply concerned about protecting the remaining moriori tree carvings on the Chatham Islands. I was sorely tempted to contact her but
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com You will have read of the 33-year-old Maori bloke who leapt off the 45-metre-high floating crane in Wellington Harbour and drowned, this the second such fatality in the last two decades. To get to the crane requires jumping in the drink and swimming whereupon one
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s no point seeking money if you don’t intend to spend it. Consider the old cliché about the merits of saving for a rainy day. That’s illogical because if the rainy day never comes, then your savings have been pointless while if
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Most folk will have read of the recent shark attack in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay. The victim, a 29 year old woman, dragged herself out of the water while shouting for help. A number of people, rushed to her assistance. As her bitten right lower
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A half-witted 23 year old anti-car copycat climate protester doused red paint across a Wellington car dealership. I say copycat as every time some form of protest is reported from abroad, such as throwing paint at diverse objects, within a month our look-at-me lightweight brigade
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Banking Ombudsman has ordered the BNZ to pay two scam victims nearly $300,000 for following their payment instructions. The Ombudsman slammed the Bank for “missing crucial red flag” signs of the fraud. This is insanity. It is not the Bank’s role to
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I began this Blog 3 years back with the onset of Covid and the lockdown. But as I’ve advised for some time now, I’m pulling stumps with tomorrow’s election. One reason is I spend half the year abroad and it causes me some
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In our desire to build state rental homes we’re instead largely creating Coronation Street style future slums which hardly fit the bill for family homes. When the first Labour government embarked on this programme back in the late 1930s they built homes, each different from
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Knowing the game is up and campaigning for our worst ever government is a lost cause, Stuff is in a meltdown of desperation. Consider this – They (and the NZ Herald) ran stories about the National Party’s plan to levy tax on foreign house purchasers specifically
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Following the sell-out enrolment achieved for the initial one-year Diploma Course, SPEAKING SPARROW, starting next year, Waikato university Vice-Chancellor Neil Quigley has now announced another brilliantly innovative new six-month diploma, also to commence next year. This is a world first and expected to attract a heavy
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Readers will have noticed Stuff’s ludicrous practice whenever mentioning any actual or pretend Maori, of listing the subject’s tribal ancestry in brackets after their name. Two questions arise, both about consistency. First, why does Stuff confine this nonsense to Maoris? For example, if they
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Going through my files I came across a letter dating back to last December which will brighten your days in these gloomy times. I’ve blocked out the names of the parties. A self-employed mate of mine was going to Auckland for a week. For practical
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com My company has always had a valued very close relationship with Bayleys, now deservedly the nation’s largest commercial real estate agency. Over the years they’ve sold us hundreds of millions of dollars of buildings. But from time to time on this Blog, I take
