Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com After massive billboard front-page and editorial beat-ups when the issue first arose, the Nash enquiry finally published its report. But both Stuff and the Herald barely mentioned it. Why? The answer is because what the enquiry revealed was Nash’s “offences” were technical and largely trivial
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com “Sadistic convicted killer caught torturing hedgehog while wearing fake pair of woman’s breasts,” that from Britain’s Daily Mail last week. It’s a close call but I don’t think it beats a Dominion newspaper heading four or so decades back, specifically, “Westport chainsaw
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is finally gone, having resigned before Associate Justice Minister Deborah Russell could sack him. Foon was a shocking appointment by Andrew Little who failed to do his homework re his background, particularly his exploitation of idiotic mainly Maori women with his
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Almost 20 years back a Finnish Government officeworker sat undisturbed for two full days amid his colleagues, despite being dead. Commenting on this recent revelation Britain’s Daily Telegraph noted that his absence of activity had no effect on the Department’s output and was testimony
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Below, another brilliant article by historian and former Labour Cabinet Minister, Michael Bassett. It should be compulsory reading for all New Zealanders. MICHAEL BASSETT: WHO IS A MAORI? As cabinet ministers traipse around the country, feverishly talking up Budget largesse in the hope it will help
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Competition in all things is wonderful, producing as it does, a superior outcome. That said, when it comes to our newspapers there’s no doubt the NZ Herald is generally superior to Wellington’s Post (formerly the Dominion-Post) owned by Stuff. But last weekend Stuff had
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Radio NZ ostensibly has egg on its face over the discovery that a pro-Russia, anti-Israel employee has tampered with news releases. Frankly, RNZ has my sympathy. The changes were so subtle it’s amazing that they were picked up at all. The last thing needed is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Once again famine reports are coming from North Korea, outside the pampered capital. One explanation for this is that the grotesquely obese dictator Kim Jong-Un has eaten all the food. Notwithstanding the unhealthy fat content imagine if he was chopped up and served as Kim
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A fortnight back I returned (briefly) to New Zealand in supposedly mid-winter to find, my hundreds of poplar trees aside, my property ablaze with normally mid-Autumn red and golden leaves. Add to that lots of hydrangeas and the like, still in full flower etc. Climate
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Few people would argue when I say many university academics, notably in the humanities, have an inflated view of themselves. There was a time when they were treated with awe but those days are well gone. The financially driven degradation of universities as intellectual institutions
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve written scathingly before about individuals and companies who make substantial charitable donations then pathetically call the media to brag about it. In doing so they plainly have a self-serving motive, be it image promotion, the pursuit of a knighthood, or such-like. They deserve
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Well-known Christchurch identity Reg Garters sent me the enclosed set of photos, some I’ve seen before. The cell-phone addiction is now a major issue, leading as it has to spell-binding stupidity. Fortunately, there’s action being taken as governments and individual schools increasingly are
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Apparently Jacinda has copped criticism for accepting a Damehood while being a Republican advocate. All that shows is how bloody mindbogglingly stupid many people are, the two being totally unconnected. It’s absurd that the Charles goof on the other side of the world, or indeed
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In Istanbul for the election, everyone I spoke to including low income folk such as waiters and the like, all assured me they intended voting for the Opposition leader Kilicdaroglu. Their motivation was simply to be rid of Erdogan who has wrought devastating economic harm
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back now in New Zealand and reading the despair-making budget details, I was staggered to see the government has allocated $ 34 million of our taxes, to promoting bloody hakas. This was described as an “investment”. The report quoted a Carl Ross, appointed as the CEO
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When the Archbishop of Canterbury Welby copped a “speeding” ticket two days after presiding in drag conducting the absurdly anachronistic Coronation, he copped a fine plus costs of NZ$1,020. But speeding? He was recorded driving at 25mph in a 20mph zone. Two points;
