Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Oh my God; the nation is reeling with the shock news. Wicked Winston smoked a cigarette and if that ain’t bad enough, he did so on Otago University’s campus. Should we bring back hanging, or at the least flogging for such acts of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Periodically I pile into our newspapers, particularly the NZ Herald, for their cock-ups. But as punishing-delivering parents or schoolmasters have traditionally uttered a million times, I do this because I care. I’m a life-long newspaper aficionado. There’s a general acceptance that the Weekend
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A respondent on this blog calling himself Magoo, wrote in respect of my recent message for God, “…by skybayers you really mean Christians – why don’t you have a go at Muslims?” Magoo might equally have written “by skybayers you really mean Zulu lesbian line-dancers
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a tradition in New Zealand for our trading banks to employ economists who for whatever reason, periodically talk vacuous tosh. I’ve written about this before, citing examples going back 30 years, such as the Westpac economist in the early 1990s, wringing his
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seven people died on New Zealand roads on the weekend. That was not a headline story. But imagine if seven people had died of the COVID virus. We’d be back to full lockdown panic mode. From the beginning, back eight months, all governments were
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com American journalist Joshua Chaffin wrote a sentimental article in the Weekend Financial Times, in many folk’s eyes, the world’s best newspaper. Specifically, Joshua reminisced about what he missed about London after a two year absence. It was an enjoyable article touching on British
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand and America have elections scheduled for November. Both countries are dealing with a covid crisis, in America’s case for a number of reasons, of far greater dimension than ours. But compare the media coverage. In America it’s almost totally about the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week an Adelaide judge in sentencing a couple for a bestial act with their dog was reported saying, “the charges were serious because they presented an affront to public dignity and the norms of human behaviour.” While not as bad as blowhard coroners, judges
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I hate to say it but Trump is right about postal voting’s flaws. The traditional system is almost foolproof. Sure, one can turn up and find someone has used your name to vote but provide identification and the false vote would be cancelled and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent respondent on this blog referred to the “cult of Jacinda.” A cult? The dictionary defines ‘cult’ as devotion or worship of someone, with an added significant reference to a “transient fad.” So probably it’s a fair description although unlike religious cults, in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Biden has predictably chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate and thus, probably President in four years time. Her selection seemed a no-brainer as she’s a goer with first-class credentials and was a standout among the female contenders to whom he’d foolishly confined
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com 31 months ago, in January 2018, during the silly season, a journalists term for the Xmas-January holiday period in which nothing happens, a Herald journalist came up with an idea. He went back a decade and read the Herald in January 2008 in the hope
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a recent Herald article, Caro Rainsford, a director of Google in New Zealand, argued that the lockdown’s closure of schools and universities, paved a new education future of digital learning. She’s talking nonsense. In education terms the Internet is doing no more
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent NZ Herald correspondent finished his letter on the Victorian pandemic with “Poor buggers”. Reading that now acceptable expression, took my memory back to a 1956 Springbok tour test match. It was a huge event in then non-event New Zealand, with the nation listening
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com 18 months or so ago, Wellington’s Dominion Post replaced its disastrous editor. There was a marked improvement although the new chap somewhat marred this for never explained reasons, by lapsing into Maori in editorials and topics to an absurd degree. Recently a new editor
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is arguably the easiest country in the world to stomp out a virus pandemic, simply because of our small population and our islands remoteness. But after the often embarrassing small nation self-awareness, the back-slapping, self-congratulations and infantile “team of 5 million” claptrap, we’
