The above photo was taken at 5.16 pm on Friday 24 May 2019 from the western hills of Lower Hutt, looking towards Wellington Harbour. It was a calm late autumn evening and you will notice that the trees and fronds are surprisingly upright for a Wellington day. It has
Trade Me has recently started selling T-shirts with the message – “It’s OK to be white” on them. Trade Me are not selling them themselves, of course. A local seller is making the T-shirts available on Trade Me, and apparently they are selling like hot cakes. Enter the New Zealand
Steven Joyce was villified when he pointed out that the government’s proposed new spending would leave them with an $11.7 billion hole. Everyone called him out for it. Media people from everywhere ridiculed him. Even business writers refused to give him any credit. He was dismissed as being
One of the things we were promised by this government was an adherence to the fiscal responsibility rules, meaning that government spending would remain within certain parameters, to allow for reducing debt and paying for existing services. Socialist governments are famous for spending money like there is no tomorrow; after
And so it begins… a right-wing politician calls a left-wing politician a ‘menace’ and the world goes into meltdown. That the left-wing politician in question sent the above tweet about the same right-wing politician is okay though… it is always okay if the left does it. For the record, I
When this government came to power, the buzz word used to describe it was ‘transformational’. They were going to fix the housing crisis. They were going to fix mental health. They were going to have no one living on the street by May 2018. They were going to fix child
The government’s flagship policy, Kiwibuild is more laughing stock than housing stock. First, after 18 months, only 80 houses have been completed, after promises that 1,000 would be built by July 2019. It is fair to say that this target is not going to be met, and the
Jacinda’s celebrity status overseas continues to grow. With her jaunt to Paris last week, where she tried to control the internet, she had lots of photo opportunities and took advantage of every one. The fact that her mission ended in the signing of a document that will make no
Yesterday, I wrote an article on ‘climate emergencies’ declared by ECan and Nelson council and pointed out that all they are doing is making people panic. Well, it seems that people are not panicking enough. Because of this, that illustrious leftist rag, The Guardian, has decided to up the rhetoric
We awoke on Sunday morning to the news that Scott Morrison had won the Australian general election, trouncing Bill Shorten and the Labour party in an unexpected and emphatic victory. We also woke to two puff pieces, one about Jacinda and one about Clarke. Could the two events be in
Stop the world. I really do want to get off. Nelson and Environment Canterbury have declared ‘climate emergencies’, which means… … that a bunch of placard waving idiots have had some kind of victory, but none of this is going to make the slightest difference to the climate. It means that
The debate over the ‘Let’s Get Wellington Moving’ campaign has hardly started and the name-calling has already begun. The proposals are light on detail at the moment, and it has already been stated that the entire matter will be subject to public consultation. There are lots of interested parties
In case you were wondering, the answer to that question is a resounding – NO! Jacinda has no doubt won herself a large number of international brownie points for her serious, intense approach to the ‘Christchurch Call’ where she is adamantly trying to control the internet. In this, she is aided
Our news coverage at the moment is wall-to-wall Jacinda in Paris, in her ‘Christchurch Call’ bid to control the internet and stop live streaming of offensive material. These are great photo opportunities of course for Jacinda, who laps it all up, but she is seriously on the wrong track in
You know what they say… old soldiers never die, they simply fade away. I wish the same could be said about politicians. The really good ones (think John Key, Bill English, Steven Joyce, Jonathan Coleman) are snapped up once they leave politics and they never look back. The others hang
We have been criticising Trevor Mallard’s extreme bias in the house on Whaleoil now for over a year, but the mainstream media saw nothing wrong. Lately however, Mallard’s bias has been so bad that it is impossible to ignore, even for a fawning media. If the speaker of
