There were some interesting comments on my post from Monday – Luxon’s First Week. The post was intended to be about the attitude of the media to the new Leader of the Opposition, and how his media honeymoon lasted less than a day, but some of the comments were interesting
So we now have a new Prime Minster-in-waiting. I am sorry for what happened to Judith Collins, but here we are… and personally, I have not felt this hopeful for 4 years. I was one of those people who thought that Jacinda would be the first one-term prime minister for
I’ve been working with some clients on the new rules that come into effect today. Most understand the provisions around vaccinated staff – they don’t want to fire people, but they don’t want to risk significant fines either. Fully vaccinated staff are mandated only for certain industries and,
I am confused. I thought that, when we entered the new ‘traffic light’ system, we would be getting more freedom… well, some of us would be anyway. Instead, the whole country is at ‘orange’, except for the bits that are at ‘red’. There is no such thing as a ‘green’
Today we may have a new leader of the National party. I have no idea who it might be, although I hope it is not Simon Bridges. Don’t get me wrong; I think Simon has great potential as a competent minister of something, but he has already had a
On the TV1 News on Saturday, the leading story was – you guessed it – all about a ‘deadly’ new strain of COVID, originally named the Nu strain, but now named Omicron (an anagram of ‘moronic’, which seems totally appropriate). The presenter told us in breathless style how this is more contagious
We all understand the extent to which we have been coerced to have the jab. I took notice of what was happening in the UK last winter, and decided that the jab was probably going to be OK, but the whole idea of vaccines was the promise that they would
I watched the Groundswell protest in Westport this weekend. Westport is a small place, and didn’t even run a Groundswell protest last time. But this time, they were there in spades… tractors, trucks, utes, even large articulated vehicles from the local carrier. And the best part was the support
In June of this year, government debt had ballooned to $102 billion, from $58 billion in 2019. Yes, there has been a pandemic, and the cost of wage subsidies, business support, medical equipment and setting up testing stations and MIQ has been considerable, but this was a huge jump by
As we all know, Jacinda wasn’t elected in 2017. Labour got fewer votes than National but the party with 7%, led by Winston Peters, decided to form a government with Labour with the Greens in support, but not as a part of the government. If only the Greens had
Today I am going to do the opposite of what the media are doing and NOT focus on the National party leadership. It makes no sense to me that, in a time of the worst protests this country has seen since 1981, the government’s propaganda arm is more focused
Do you sometimes feel as if the world has gone completely mad? Let me assure you that it has. It really has. First let’s start with this. What? Medical exemptions have to be signed off by Reichsfuhrer Bloomfield himself, so there is no chance of this lady faking her
Let me take you back to September when the great Siouxsie Wiles was caught out breaking Level 4 lockdown rules by sitting on a beach with a friend, who then went swimming. In spite of there being a video of these very events, Wiles responded by warning people about ‘misinformation‘
It started with this, last week: And yesterday, we had an article from Jason Walls on the same subject: But recently, there’s been a stark and worrying change in the level of animosity directed at journalists. Yesterday morning, for example, my partner woke me up to tell me someone’
Information Opinion Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Jacinda Ardern, lauded all over the world for her kindness, ’emotional intelligence’, ability to have a baby and hold down a job (like, wow), has been found wanting. Many of us knew right from the beginning that she had no substance, but
As most of you know, I am an accountant, looking after businesses of all shapes and sizes – from building firms to contractors, to hairdressers and beauticians, to commercial electrical companies. Each type of business has its own peculiar conditions, but they all have a number of things in common. When
