Dear auntie Fran O’Sullivan is obviously struggling in the news void that always happens at this time of year. I am not even sure if Jacinda is back from holiday yet, and so political journalists find themselves having to make stuff up. In this latest offering, Fran implies that
We have a fairly low opinion of Stuff on The BFD, but their latest offering reaches a profoundly new low. For reasons I simply cannot fathom, the media, and Stuff in particular, seem to be coming down on the side of student loan shirkers, particularly those who live overseas. I
Since the police seem to have just about waved the white flag at gangs in this country, preferring instead to raid the homes of law-abiding citizens while they are sitting down to dinner, it seems to me that gangs have recently become much more visible. There was this recent attempt
Well, she’s done it. In less than 2 years, Meghan Markle has successfully broken up the Royal Family, in a way that only Americans seem able to do. Harry has been forced to choose between his wife and son and his extended family of birth, and so far, he
I wouldn’t say that there is no such thing as racism any more, but I really do think there is much less of it than there used to be. Racism originally grew out of a fear of the unknown; of strangers coming to your village to steal your food
What happens when you have a chronic housing shortage, too few state houses and a government that continually comes out with landlord unfriendly policies? I have watched landlord after landlord sell their rental properties over the last few years, citing various reasons, but just about all of them are to
I have not yet met Dieuwe de Boer, although I would very much like to. However, I have watched many of his videos, particularly in 2018, when he visited rallies held by groups opposed to anything that was even remotely right wing. He would go around and try to talk
When Harry married Meghan, I was happy for him. He had dated several lovely young women, but all of them had said that they could not cope with the media scrutiny of their relationships. Meghan Markle was another story. An actress in a well-known TV legal drama, she could cope
I have never known of a person who does so little and yet gets so many accolades. Jacinda Ardern, our laziest and most ineffective prime minister of all time has now been given yet another award. She has been named ‘Pacific Person of the Year’… although exactly what she has
I never watch the awards shows nowadays. I used to love them. The glamour, the emotion, the suspense, wondering if your favourite movie will win ‘Best Picture’ – it all used to be a fascinating part of the entertainment industry. I particularly loved the gowns. No ordinary person would ever dream
The dreadful Australian bushfires have recently demonstrated how dangerous Green policies can be. Hopefully, this will result in a review of some of their most dangerous policies, but in the meantime, their zeal and stupidity still raises its head in many places. In the last week, it has been announced
I hope my esteemed colleague, Lushington Brady, will not mind me invading his patch just this once, but I really felt impelled to comment on the awful situation in Australia at the moment. As our closest neighbours, and the nation that is always first to come to our aid in
The biggest problem with NZ First having scuppered Jacinda’s proposed Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is that the subject will never go away. Even if Jacinda adheres to her promise to never introduce it, the next Labour leader will bring the subject up again. It doesn’t matter what the
A few years ago, we were looking for an extra accountant for our practice. Applicants were in relatively short supply, but we were approached by an accountant living in Tauranga. He was qualified, had about 5 years experience, seemed nice enough and he was happy to relocate to Wellington. Also,
The world’s most spoiled brat has been given ecumenical status yet again, this time on the cover of Time magazine, as ‘Person of the Year’. Indeed, Time is so woke these days that choosing a real hero would have been an anathema to their bleeding liberal hearts. The sad
The previous government already had a solid infrastructure programme in place when the current coalition came into power. One of the first things the COL did was to cancel most of those infrastructure projects, particularly the roading projects. This government’s ideology, led by the Greens, was that roads would
