If you think this year’s election involves lots of fun and games the video below shows the campaign trail nearly fifty years ago at the 1975 election. There are a few things which you may find rather interesting to view: 1. How awkward Sir Robert Muldoon was in “social”
One of the reasonings behind MMP was the widening of democracy; it went something like ‘a new party or parties will emerge because so many people are sick of the Tweedledum and Tweedledee status quo, they will take hold, and a new political era will dawn’. It was all going
Many of us have been highly entertained during the last couple of days by the story (which nobody in WA cares about, by the way; it’s not trending out there) of a Maori with facial tattoos being refused service in a Perth pub. The outrage on TV1 and RNZ
Over the last century, the Labour Party has always amounted to nothing more than a huge con game, but now the game is up. One unfortunate aspect of life, in the sense it’s taken about a century, is elections don’t happen very often and nor do Labour Governments.
In May of 2002, US mob boss Joseph Bonanno died at the ripe old age of 97, having spent around seven decades avoiding death within the underworld. One of the things about Bonanno which has always intrigued me is how treacherous he was. His first major example of this was
On Saturday the National party released its list for the forthcoming General Election. This led to the immediate, and for me rather sad, end of the political career of Michael Woodhouse (I did warn him, did urge him to be the candidate in the Taieri electorate). A good man who
Last Thursday my inlaws and the rest of the ‘far now’ – turned up at our house. They heard the warnings of Cyclone Gabrielle bearing down on them, decided “stuff this” and fled the Hokianga for more pleasant surroundings: Taieri Plains, the “Capitalist Command Centre” (ie: my house) and normal people.
Strange as it probably seems to you, dear reader, but occasionally on Mott The Hoople and Ian Hunter albums there are songs I just don’t like. In 1976 Hunter was in New York recording his second solo album and, coincidently, Queen were in a next door studio; one thing
On Tuesday David Seymour kicked the year off for the ACT party. They were kind enough to email a copy of his speech to me in the weekly Free Press and it is breathtaking in its disconnect. Much of the speech is the usual fare – Labour is bad, National hasn’
For the last few days, the Taieri Plains have been sweltering under the most appalling heatwave I can remember. On Thursday the digital clock and temperature thingy in Mosgiel hit 34 degrees, which is the hottest weather I have ever experienced. Our house has been like an oven; sleep has
Just as the departure of Ardern was weeks in the planning, so too was the socialist party’s attempt at re-election by dividing and (they hope) conquering. Proof of this pudding is the oft-repeated claim ‘We won’t divide people on the basis of race’: a clear case of giving
As I write this Chris Hipkins is being confirmed as Prime Minister of New Zealand. The left-wing media are desperately trying to push the reset button with all sorts of twaddle about him being some kind of mad right winger in an attempt to pretend the numerous crises facing New
In 2013 on the forerunner to this website, and also on the NZ Herald (back when they allowed comments), I predicted that David Cunliffe would sink without a trace within about 15 minutes due to the fact that, outside of New Lynn and left-wing circles, nobody had heard of him.
Back in 2019 my “dearly beloved” completed their BSc in Mathematics (I have no idea, either) having endured three years of sickeningly patronising behaviour from woke students, lecturers and professors at the silly University in Wellington for being Maori. It really had to be witnessed to be believed, especially how
There are only about 11 weeks left in the current tax year which ends on 31 March. It seemed appropriate to write this in January, rather than, say, 29 March, so folk have plenty of time to take my advice should they wish to do so. What always surprises me
Last night the ‘far now’ arrived down from the Hokianga for Christmas. My dearly beloved’s parents, faux jumeaux brother and several other siblings. We are all pleased to see them for the first time in several months. My mother arrives tomorrow, my half-brother arrives from LA on Friday, and
