Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Everywhere the war analogy is used re the fight against coronavirus. Probably within a year we’ll have a vaccine. But all about us will be economic devastation, record unemployment and despair. History says that will induce two political consequences. One, as is evidently already
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The bold court actions by some Aucklanders against the Prime Minister and other government officials, seeking a writ of habeas corpus, were always doomed to failure. For the cold hard fact was the ill-considered lock-down was legal. Thus we were subject to the imposition of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ll tell you who the indisputable New Zealand Man of the Year is, indeed he’s the top contender for Man of the Decade. His name is Steve Elers. He, believe it or not, is a Massey University academic and a month back began
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Colmar Brunton survey showing a sizeable majority of support for the government’s totally unnecessary lockdown excesses, came as no surprise. But come election time with 25% unemployment and general despair and there will be a markedly different reaction. The fact is, right now,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our newspapers are dying and nothing can save them, sad for my generation for whom they’re an indispensable habit. As an avid newspaper devotee, I’ve finally come to terms with this after reading the Guardian’s famous editor Alan Rushbridger’s excellent 2018
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Labour MP Deborah Russell copped a social media backlash, typical of the mob mentality when in full flight. Deborah is a former philosophy academic. She suggested to a Parliamentary select committee that if only a few weeks out of action caused the demise of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Amidst all the gloom here’s some wonderful news to lift the nation’s spirits. Yesterday I received a phone call from prominent Lower Hutt lawyer, David Butler. But rather than the usual tirade of abuse about Wellington QC Hugh Rennie, David’s longtime rival
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A few days back I forecast a revisionist backlash against the government’s ill-thought lockdown would occur, once the realisation of the absence of any sensible reasoning became evident. Then lo and behold, the very next day a group of New Zealand academics covering health,
Sir Bob Jones This article was first published on nopunchespulled.com and is republished with permission. The demise of the Women’s Weekly, Metro, North & South and the Listener et al should come as no surprise. Furthermore, it had nothing to do with coronavirus, rather it was entirely due
