In C S Lewis’ The Silver Chair, a gnome from the land of Bism, at the bottom of the world, scoffs at surface-dwellers’ mines. “I have heard of those little scratches in the crust that you Topdwellers call mines.” “Scratches in the crust” is putting it mildly. The deepest
At the risk of sounding like a cross between a Monty Python Yorkshireman and one of the dreary boomers still banging on about bloody Woodstock, kids today just don’t understand what it was like being an indie music fan in the ’80s. Back then, for one, ‘independent’ music really
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Sometimes I hate being right. I don’t claim to be more than a moderately informed observer of economics, but even to me it seems pretty obvious that deep economic trouble lies in our near future. It gives me no joy to find that far better informed economic observers agree
As I’ve written before, politicians unleash the dogs of political scandal at their peril. Time and again, politicians have got carried away with trying to tear down their opponents, only to find the frenzied pack turning on themselves. It’s kind of an occupational hazard, I guess, when you’
If you were to believe the mainstream American media or the Democrats, well… more fool you. But if you were so foolish, you’d absolutely, adamantly, vehemently deny that America is in the grip of an illegal immigration crisis. As perennially-cretinous bootlicker Robert Reich spluttered, “there’s no border
Woody Allen famously said that he intended to achieve immortality by not dying. I prefer to think of a more mundane by ultimately more badass method: transferring our brains to imperishable robot bodies. Just like Robot Nixon from Futurama — the hero we all need. Don’t tell me you wouldn’
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This Labour Government promoted itself as the most open and transparent government ever. It was, of course, a slogan, nothing more. The reality is that this Government is dishonest, dissembling, disingenuous, and duplicitous. This is particularly egregious regarding OIA responses, even landing minister Jan Tinetti before the powerful Privileges Committee
The industry has calculated the minus and plus factors of electric vehicles relating to no carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases from manufacture through to their end of life. Any user of an electric vehicle as a means to save the earth, has entered a very expensive exercise in futility.
The political fallout from the Brittany Higgins saga just keeps barreling on. Having fatally wounded one government, it’s now turning on the next government — whose political machinations are being laid bare. A raft of leaked text messages show that, despite their repeated denials, senior Labor figures, up to the
Don’t be alarmed, New Zealand: your house isn’t burning down. It’s always been on fire, but you’re just noticing the flames more. That’s what the government wants you to believe, anyway. As crime soars across the country, the Labour Party are in steadfast denial. It’
Oh, boy — right again. Don’t you just hate that? Us “right-wing conspiracy theorists” have had a depressing habit of being right about everything from Twitter shadow-banning conservatives, to vaccines not being as “safe and effective” as touted, to Hunter Biden’s laptop. Now, we can add “vaccine
