Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Two decades back I wrote “Degrees For Everyone”, a comic novel on the collapse of universities as centres of academia. Instead, I claimed, they were now commercial ventures, dishing out nonsense degrees in non-academic topics. Since then university degrees (excluding the sciences, philosophy et al) have
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The sound of lashing followed by piercing screams saw the Police crash into Stuff’s Wellington offices yesterday. There they rescued a sub-editor, strapped to a post, being brutally flogged, the flogger being urged on by other staff members, all in gumboots and raincoats, such is
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Long serving Audrey Young is justifiably one of our most respected political journalists. In a recent New Zealand Herald article on who would lead Labour after the election, she staggered me with her suggestion it would be Kieran McAnulty, the current MP for Wairarapa. For a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I don’t know Nick Mowbray although I’m obviously aware of him. Recently a lawyer friend sent me a copy of his observations on bureaucratic growth, which I reproduce below. Thoughts of Nick Mowbray founder of Zuru. Its time NZ looked at our return on
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was interested to read that breast reduction surgery is available from Medicare in Australia. This made the news when women complained they were at the back of the queue, apparently some surgeons viewing it as a cosmetic issue. That’s nonsense. Overly large breasts are
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com David Seymour makes no bones about his desire to clean up the grossly excessive bureaucracy. Some of his expressed goals, such as wiping out the farcical Women’s Affairs Department, an agency set up in the 1980s by the then Labour Government as a sop to
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve referred before on this Blog to my mail-bag and the constant inflow of unsolicited mail from strangers soliciting money, offering me “investment opportunities” and so on. It may be hard to believe but back in the 1980s I received at least 50 such missives
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Having survived on the taxpayer teat, thanks to the government’s disrespectful media bribing, now desperate Stuff, knowing the end is nigh, still sometimes scrapes the bottom of the barrel to malign the opposition. They have the two worst purported cartoonists, certainly in New Zealand history,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com We’re constantly told by the media that Christopher Luxon lacks public support when compared with Hipkins. This is simply media imagery, nevertheless, it’s hardly surprising. Where are Luxon’s minders? As I’ve said on this Blog before, for God’s sake tell
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Broadcaster Tova O’Brien is now writing for Stuff. In a recent piece she mocked National Leader Luxon for his lack of charismatic personal support. Given that she lost her previous media job for precisely the same reason, namely the absence of audience support, this is
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Why do newspapers publish letters from dumb buggers? Hopefully, it’s to amuse us but knowing the newspaper world I suspect the answer is more likely sloth. Take a recent one in the Herald from a Joy Edwards of Albany. First, assuming it was not maliciously
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Above are my poll predictions, net of the nutter under 5% riff-raff (Tamaki, Opportunity Party et al). Including NZ First as anti-government, those numbers amount to 2 in every 3 voters being anti-government. Much of Labour’s lost vote will go to the Greens and the
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A number of readers have asked me how I picked the exact date Jacinda would announce her resignation on this Blog, 18 months before it occurred. This year since her resignation announcement, numerous opinions have been published on diverse blogs, specifically that it was to dodge
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Scarcely a day passes when strangers don’t write to me with investment proposals. Given I’ve plainly done OK investing on my own accord, an ounce of common sense would suggest I’m an unlikely candidate to allow a stranger to take over this
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent issue of Britain’s, The Guardian, always a source of amusement with its ludicrously excessive left-wing silliness, bemoaned the likelihood of the coming Labour defeat in New Zealand. To give you an idea of the “quality” of this article, take this line. “It
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com One universal truth about taxation is everyone’s in favour of taxing others but can readily supply reasons why they themselves should be exempt. Thus the current NZ Green Party, as seedy a mob who have ever graced our Parliamentary benches, have now abandoned Green issues
