The arrival of November turns me into a grinchy bah-humbugger of epidemic proportions. It’s odd that a normally easy going, happy go lucky bloke like me, does a complete 180 and all because of the imminent arrival of Christmas. To be fair (to myself), by mid-November, we’re already
My recent posts about this subject (here and here) have resulted in some fascinating comments from readers ranging from “If Grace Millane had survived her ordeal and laid a complaint, would she have been seen as a ‘woman scorned’? After all, she was in his room by choice, the sex
Um yeah – why don’t we put that to some people in Ethiopia or Somalia or some other genuinely underprivileged countries. There are always plenty of sad “people” stories that crop up around Christmas time and of course the MSM leaps at the opportunity to “pimp the poor” for commercial
When I wrote the post “Sexual Harassment? Evidently Not”, my main premise was that allegations of sexual impropriety can be so easily weaponised for retribution or for personal or political gain with little or no corroborative evidence and too often, the damage done is irreparable even if later the allegations
The findings in the Labour party sexual harassment case have once again exposed just how easy it is for allegations of “sexual assault” to be seriously weaponized in a whole variety of different and highly damaging ways and for a whole variety of different reasons. From a disgruntled partner in
Assuming there are no major changes in the New Zealand political landscape before November next year, we can look forward to seeing Bridges and Ardern in the usual televised leaders’ debates. There’s little doubt that Ardern will still be Labour leader. There’s no way the intellectually challenged serial
Based on the BS we’ve seen in the House of Commons for the past three years and the never-ending demands for another referendum because …”we were misled about the referendum” (which was just adding more BS on top of BS), the only appropriate outcome for the UK now has
Following the National Party’s announcement that Christopher Luxon was to be their candidate for the Botany seat, there was the usual cluster of media activity including speculation about him being parachuted into the electorate (like John Key was a few years ago), with an eye to the leadership, but
In a post earlier this week, Jacinda Ardern Powered by Eight-year-olds, I commented on the futility of the latest unnecessary and useless plastics ban proposed by our Prime Minister and the fact that she makes decisions on the trot on the basis of the “many letters” she receives from children.
Taking care of our environment and being good citizens of the planet we inhabit is basic common sense and to be fair, we Kiwis are generally pretty darned good at it. We don’t litter our own environment the way many other countries do and we are constantly self aware
The Prime Minister has announced the Government plans to phase out another round of single-use plastics including items like takeaway cups, fruit stickers, certain meat trays, takeaway food containers, plastic cotton buds, single-use plastic cutlery and who knows what else. According to Stuffed Ms Ardern has repeatedly said that the
In the past few years, election results seem to have shown political polls to be less and less accurate, so it’s hard to know how much importance to place on them. The actual polling processes haven’t changed much except perhaps in some isolated cases where we’re seeing
I applaud the out of court settlement between the Australian Rugby Union and Israel Folau but I hasten to add that the Union doesn’t exactly come out of this looking anything close to squeaky clean and in reality; they could have avoided the whole thing had they not behaved
Yet another one from the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” file. According to Radio Today “No introduction to the track was broadcast, or any other content discussing it to justify its context.” “In making a decision about the complaints, Ofcom considered the demographic of the station’s audience as set
Of course it’s never going to happen and, for obvious reasons, not even she and her COL would be stupid enough to suggest such a thing, but if she is serious about stopping climate change (something humankind has never managed to achieve in the history of the planet – a
There seems to be no end to this government’s knee-jerking at every opportunity. Passing legislation under urgency is something that shouldn’t be done lightly but here they go again – because of course, it’s a matter of hugely significant national security. Something New Zealanders have been screaming for
