Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com My predictions for Labour/Green and National/ACT were astray by 5% thanks to the landslide. The happiest people will be the pollsters who Auckland Central excepted, pretty much got it right, even with NZ First given historically they’ve understated that Party’s vote.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The meaning of the word “socialism” is not in dispute. The Oxford dictionary describes it as, “A political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the community as a whole should own and control the means of production, capital and property. Also, a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com One of our true cricket greats, all-rounder John Reid, has died at 92, thus for once the old cliché that he had good innings is true, both literally and chronologically. My god, he was special, captaining New Zealand through a difficult time in our cricket
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, an absurd Stuff website heading yesterday out of Australia. If it had a scintilla of truth we must assume Bolivians, Bulgarians, Taiwanese; I could go on listing the world’s 200 plus countries, were all comatose with shock. In fact 99.9% of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Dr Graham Sharpe, former President of the New Zealand Anaesthetics Association, is a long time mate and a man of libertarian views. He’s forwarded me his recently published contribution to the debate which I’ve reproduced below. Dr Graham Sharpe ONZM FANZCA is a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The World Health Organisation has, to its great credit, now reversed its position on lockdowns. “The only things lockdowns achieved was poverty. They make poor people even poorer,” WHO Dr David Nabarro said. I predicted this conclusion on this blog back in March, easy of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com As a libertarian, I strongly believe in people making their own decisions as to how they live their lives. Some people are risk-takers seeking, in the case of say self-employment, a higher than standard income and the dignity they feel in being their own master.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Three years ago there was a splash of publicity about my company building a wooden structure high-rise office-building in Wellington. Subsequently, people frequently asked me what happened to this. The photo below shows a current ariel shot from our offices. Soon the roof will go
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Saturday at midday, a 4-metre tree fell over in central Wellington’s Midland Park, on to the pavement. As gardeners know this is a common Spring event for deciduous trees, as in this case, which have not budded and are plainly dead. I have
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com So proclaimed the Herald in a ridiculous beat-up story last Saturday with nothing explosive about the item whatsoever. The Herald revealed that hours before the double murder Lundy’s partner in a proposed vineyard venture was visited by two cuttings suppliers reps re non-payment of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A huge sigh of relief was felt across Auckland on Sunday when once again the Herald web-site ran “The Tragic Life and Death of Sonny Fai” item. It’s over 3 weeks since they last ran it, consequentially across the city numerous readers were suffering
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m delighted to read Azerbaijan and Armenian soldiers are once again shooting one another. I say that as notwithstanding the Caucasians being a favourite region of mine, most bravado by soldiers tends to be targeted at civilians, so it’s good to see them
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Disputing a Dominion-Post correspondent’s assertion that the Prime Minister was “a celebrity and not much else”, a Trevor Tofts wrote, “If a celebrity can handle a massacre, White Island disaster and dealing with Covid… she must be a PM of substance”. How many times
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seasoned Press Gallery journo’ Audrey Young made an interesting observation recently. Writing about ACT’s dramatic rise in the polls (I predicted this early this year on this blog) she wrote, “if Seymour ends up with nine MPs, history suggests at least one will spectacularly
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com 12 days ago I published some 2020 NZ death statistics, specifically, Road toll this year – 218 deaths Coronavirus this year – 25 deaths Here’s an update. Road toll since then – 14 deaths Coronavirus since then – Nil deaths Given the virus lockdown success illustrated by these
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com To date, thanks to the government and media’s disproportionate obsession with the corona virus, the normal election fervour has been missing in action. In these circumstances the historically unprecedented lop-sided polling becomes explicable. But with less than a month to go, I don’t
