For the next few days, I will remind the Prime Minister that we have long memories. It is only when you explore her hyperbole that you realise how much of her rhetoric was outright posturing rather than delivery. I will expose three examples a day. There is a huge volume
There is a rather perplexing conundrum I have been wrestling with of late. When does an iconic band merge into little more than a tribute band? An example of this was when “The Hollies” toured NZ last year. Since their halcyon days of the ‘60s there has been no fewer
We are amidst our annual Maori language week and of course, that subjects us to the annual barrage of media pomposity, posturing, and melodrama as they attempt to woke themselves into a frenzy of compliance. I would imagine that there is nothing more patronising than watching and listening to an
With sincere apologies to Paul Simon, our very own “Queen of Corona”, through the medium of Chris Hipkins, has warned the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church congregation that the teachings from their Christian bible, delivered from the church pulpit, is misleading and that the only source of truth is delivered from
It is not often I refer to Stuff as a source of integrity but I will make an exception this morning. There is an excellent opinion piece by Damien Grant headed, PM’s abuse of power during lockdown a warning to us all. It is a must-read. I have lifted
As is the desire of our socialist Government, I have a similar urge to rewrite history, but the difference is that my observations will correct history with evidence. April 03 2020, Newshub headline: “Health boss stands by COVID-19 border measures as National blasts ‘not good enough’ response”. Four months later
You have problems. The lack of credibility and honesty of your administration, and of those you choose to work with, has been exposed this week. There is so much more for the populace to be concerned about than the pandemic, even more than a crumbling economy. What has emerged over
Corruption manifests itself in many ways. The most common, of course, is the dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power. There is material corruption and emotional corruption. Emotional corruption was demonstrated through the melodramatic methods of snake oil salesmen of old. Without their cure-all potion, you were doomed. They
In an opinion piece in Stuff, Damien Grant had this to say regarding the Lees-Galloway affair: “Collins certainly had no evidence of anything beyond this. Yet in the aftermath of the Andrew Falloon affair, Collins would have known that blurting out this made-up scandal would force the prime minister to
A couple of days ago I was very critical of Ardern’s reliance on clichés but it appears I was a little hasty. I should give myself an uppercut for suggesting the possibility that she might have had an original thought. We are all aware that Ardern has a degree
I was told by one of my daughters that today was the first day of the rest of my life. As that was yesterday, it is already old news as one can only assume that today becomes that day as will tomorrow, and if I make it to next Thursday,
It concerns me immensely that it has taken three years for the National Party to see the wisdom of appointing Judith Collins as their leader. I was of the opinion that political parties are elected by the people for the people. Elected members are there because the electorate has chosen
I was prepared to give National and their new leader a chance, but not now. I find it hard to justify my support for a party, and its leader, when they have shown such ineffectual governance when dealing to the matters of the recently exposed patients’ files. What should have
When a white woman pulls a gun on a black woman, it is viewed twelve million times on twitter with the usual outrage of ranting racial indignation. There were conflicting accounts of the event but never-the-less “white woman is a racist”. It was only a couple weeks ago that a
The pedestal was never high enough for you, was it? You swaggered on stage and addressed the nation every day for two months convincing many that under your watch, we would be protected from the unmitigated calamity of COVID-19. You claimed that without your immediate intervention up to eighty thousand
Black lives matter so much so that several race-based gangs have surrounded their headquarters with impenetrable security nets and armed themselves with illegal weaponry, and control lucrative drug cartels resulting in untold misery and death to many. But we should be grateful that none of these black lives own a
