Capitalist Information Opinion I recently finished reading this week’s edition of Free Press, the online newsletter from the ACT party which sails into my inbox each Monday. For the first time in ages, it has left me rather impressed. The ACT folk appear to have got the message from
Capitalist Information Opinion TV3 news this week, and the online NZ Herald, were running hilariously funny stories about how we are all going to be engulfed by the sea. Apparently, a couple of scientists (ahem “Scientists”) have started a website showing the entire NZ coastline or some such, and you
Capitalist Information Opinion When a political party in opposition changes its leader and replaces a former prime minister with somebody else, it is seldom successful; only Muldoon replacing Marshall has been the exception, due mainly to the personalities of ‘both’ men. The only people who never understand this truism are,
Capitalist In October 2017 a combination of the disgraceful treatment of Todd Barclay by the then PM on the one hand, and Winston installing a socialist government nobody had actually voted for on the other, meant I decided to basically ignore New Zealand politics and news for several years; I
Capitalist In 2020 Los Angeles [county] narrowly elected a man called George Gascon as its district attorney. He has been a disaster, having no particular interest in actually prosecuting criminals and setting many free; the crime rate has soared to anarchic levels. Tucker Carlson, the Fox News broadcaster, has highlighted
Capitalist This morning I was reading a thoughtful essay on The BFD by Matt Judd where he covered quite a lot of ground regarding the changes of the last couple of years. He mentions enemies within, plans to subjugate the entire population and various other sick, demented things that are
Capitalist In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Russians invaded and the gallant Ukrainian people grabbed guns, knives, baseball bats and probably rolling pins in order to repel the invasion. They put the Froggies circa 1940 to shame. The Ukrainian President, when contacted and told
Capitalist Information Opinion Sylvia Miles was a wonderful actress. Her acting career was not particularly prolific but the roles she had were always memorable, such as in Midnight Cowboy and Wall Street, and her characters always seemed to get hilarious one-liners (often what viewers remember about the movie). She co-starred
Capitalist The ACT party has fallen into the trap of being the junior National party due to their foolishness of campaigning to be ‘deputy’ rather than the big cheese. This week Christopher Luxon whacked the ACT referendum idea on the head making David Seymour look weak, silly, and ineffectual. Unless
Capitalist Many moons ago, when but a stripling of 18, I first moved to Auckland and found a flat in Glendowie; a week later Sir Robert Muldoon retired and the Tamaki by-election ensued. This caused me and 35,000 other Tamaki electorate residents no end of annoyance. I was deluged
Capitalist Every week, as most of you are undoubtedly aware, the ACT party emails a newsletter called Free Press to numerous people. The one which sailed into my email inbox yesterday was intriguing for a couple of reasons. First, there was no mention of the widespread criticism of David Seymour
