I watched Liz Gunn’s Rumble video with joyful delight. At last, a person with some credibility and media training was standing up and saying what so many of us were thinking. She is respected, liked and generally well known. If anyone could lead us out of the vale of
I decided to give in and apply for my COVID passport. Here it is. Pretty neat, don’t you think? I’m not sure it will make my life any easier though, as each day seems to bring more and more proposed restrictions. Now it seems that we may need
If you ever wondered, as I once did, how the Nazis took control of Germany so easily, now you have your answer. People just comply. They don’t think, they don’t question… they just comply. First it was lockdowns, to save the health service (while nurses produced Tiktok videos
There comes a point at which even the most fervent Ardernista must start to wonder what is going on. That day was Friday 22 October, the start of the holiday weekend, when Jacinda Ardern dashed the hopes of all New Zealanders, except her crew of naysaying health ‘experts’: Wiles, Hendy
Monday’s sermon from the Podium of Truth was more of the same. It started with announcements of announcements… something that this government excels at. Come to think of it, this is something unique to this government. Imagine if John Key had announced, on 22 February 2011, that he would
It is almost exactly a year since the last election, when the country gave Jacinda Ardern and her government the largest mandate ever recorded under MMP. It was a testimonial to what most people thought was a successful pandemic response that had saved us from having thousands dead. Clearly, those
On his Bowalley Road blogsite, Chris Trotter raises the possibility that Jacinda will resign before Christmas. The reason he believes this is possible is obvious – COVID, particularly the Delta kind. Chris Trotter’s article is as well written and researched as we have come to expect of him, but I
I have just come back from the supermarket. It was a depressing experience. On my way out, a young man walked in through the entrance, followed by an old hag, screaming, “He didn’t scan in! He didn’t scan in!” I find this kind of behaviour so terribly depressing.
In politics, things turn on a heartbeat. I have friends who adore Jacinda but are sick up to the back teeth of being locked down, because they can’t visit family overseas, can’t hold funerals for their loved ones, have to queue to get into a supermarket and can’
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, governments all around the world borrowed – or printed – money to stimulate the economy. It was enormously successful because the plan almost everywhere was to get people out of the dole queues and back into work by building infrastructure. That was how so many
In March 2020, Jacinda put us all into lockdown. At the time the whole pandemic was bewildering but she told us that if we locked down once and got on top of the disease, it would be best for the economy in the long run. “Do It Once, Do It
Oh God! It’s Maori Language Week. I have no problem with people who speak or are trying to learn Maori, in the same way that I have no problem with those who are learning French, Japanese or Swahili, but we are not having those languages rammed down our throats
It is very tempting to just criticise Siouxsie Wiles for her weapons-grade hypocrisy for going to the beach outside her local area, with someone outside her bubble, without masks and without social distancing. Believe me, as I had to queue (with mask) to get into the supermarket in a South
It always strikes me as a terrible indictment of the NZ media that, if you want to find unbiased reporting of the performance of our government, you have to look overseas to find it. I am sure there are other countries whose media pack do nothing but praise the government;
It was only ever a matter of time. The government has been looking at ways to solve the so-called ‘ageing population’ issue and has proposed that, if superannuitants have earnings other than their pension, they should pay a higher rate of tax on those earnings. Welcome back to the 1980s.
Joe Biden was going to be the saviour of the world. Mr Cool, Mr Sensible, he was going to bring back the safety and sanity that America and the world had been missing so dreadfully during the Trump era. He was going to “Build Back Better”. He was going to
