You may remember a few weeks back that Grant Robertson chided Peter Williams on Magic Talk when Williams asked him about The Great Reset that is supposedly happening all around the globe. Robertson’s reaction was surprisingly vehement and he accused Williams of expounding conspiracy theories and other nonsense. Well,
Grant Robertson and Jacinda are now claiming that they intend to ‘tip the housing market’ in favour of first-time buyers. How exactly they are going to do this is unclear. What is abundantly clear is that they haven’t got a clue how to tip the housing market in any
I admit I still use Facebook, but only to keep in touch with family and friends overseas. I do, however, subscribe to a Lower Hutt Community page, mainly for local information, particularly if there has been an earthquake, or there is bad weather. However, I have been surprised to see
As some of you will know, I am a landlord and have been, on and off, for the last 20 years. Currently, we have 2 rented houses, our tenants are really great and we are happy, but it hasn’t always been that way. There were the tenants who completely
So they have done it. Mediaworks have terminated Sean Plunket’s employment on Magic Talk. There will have been a handsome payout for Plunket, never fear, but the whole thing was an overreaction of epic proportions. It seems it all came down to the conversation John Banks had with a
Does anyone remember how John Key rejected suggestions that he should go into coalition with Winston Peters because he was sick of all the ‘side shows’? Key avoided working with Peters and his party because Peters was often distracted from what is the real role of an MP, which is
We have all seen how the Big Tech corporations have started piling on to businesses that support conservative views. The fate of Parler is a very good example, but it is easy to just dismiss all that because it is America and ‘Orange Man Bad’. It is a different story,
Ok, so I am a tax nerd. I have seen all sorts of taxes come and go during my career, and I can tell you, within reason, what works and what doesn’t. I can tell you with absolute certainty that capital gains tax will not magically fix the housing
Enjoying a few drinks at a Saturday night barbeque with our neighbours, the subject of the Climate Commission’s proposal inevitably came up. These people are originally from Christchurch, generally left leaning (but not rabid lefties), happy with changing all the place names in New Zealand to Maori names and
We have published a number of articles on this site, notably from Lushington D Brady and more recently from Lionred about the government’s slap in the face to Australia by claiming they should treat the Chinese with more respect. If you hark back a few months, you may remember
Winston Peters was the driver of a plan to extend the qualification period for NZ Super for migrants to New Zealand from 10 years to 20 years. Most New Zealanders agreed with this proposal. It was clear that some devious financial planning was going on, whereby younger family members were
We all know by now that the biggest social media platforms, notably Twitter and Facebook, have done a sterling job of de-platforming anyone who is a conservative, even if they are moderate. It seems that the storming of the Capitol has given them the excuse they have been looking for
While sleepy Joe Biden was rehashing tired old cliches in his inaugural speech to the nation, Jacinda Ardern was busy doing some rehashing of her own. Having retained her title as the Spin Queen by naming 2021 as the “Year of the Vaccine”, she then moved on to the most
I have avoided writing about the situation in the USA until now, simply because I believed that, with the advent of President Biden, things would soon return to normal. It is not that I particularly disliked President Trump; I was always surprised at the venom poured out at him even
No one can say that Boris Johnson has had a good year. Few premiers in the world have had a good 2020, Jacinda Ardern being one notable exception. But 2020 was doubly difficult for Boris; he already had the Herculean task of dealing with Brexit when the pandemic took hold,
It seems that every journalist in this country believes that the introduction of a Capital Gains Tax will miraculously fix the overheated housing market, yet no one ever bothers to explain exactly how this will happen. Apparently, it just will. It won’t. Here are some of the reasons why.
