Is that the going price for violence against children? In a society that has more than its fair share of violence against children, 9 months home detention seems a pretty inconsequential sentence for a guy who has pled guilty to abusing a child; keeping in mind that the broken leg
Healthy children should live in the weird and wonderful world of make believe as and when they wish. It’s part of being a child to pretend to be whatever your little mind wants you to be and, if during playtime you fancy being of the opposite sex, so be
Having been highly critical of mainstream media and “fake news”, and often announcing “the polls are useless”, I was left doing some serious introspective navel-gazing after the election. Despite number-crunching previous election results and working through as much logic as possible, it turns out that I couldn’t
It can be enjoyable watching a good game of rugby between two good teams who play the game well, and these days, many of us choose to sit in the lounge and watch in some semblance of comfort, rather than suffer the indignity of some of the antisocial unpleasantness that
There are not many things in life these days that irritate me enough to warrant the energy that irritation takes but occasionally, I find a little irritation is a good thing. It reminds me that there is real red blood coursing through my veins and being alive means being able
Let me repeat that: Political polls are USELESS. Like sitting in a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but you don’t go anywhere. All political polls should be published with a warning to viewers, readers or listeners that makes it clear the information about to be divulged
I was reluctant to subject myself to yet another leaders’ debate so soon after the Campbell fiasco. I’m still in counselling for the damage done by Campbell, and watching another strange newsperson with even stranger views of the world and a proven complete lack of integrity and professionalism hosting
I had a previous engagement so I had to record it and watch it later in the evening, which is a good thing, because I could spool through the ads and if the pain overwhelmed me, I could always pause, have a scotch and never come back. It was painful
A standing ovation for National for proposing the concept that we should keep more of our hard-earned cash. While National’s tax policy stands alone for being sensible compared with others (with the exception of ACT), we are nailed every time and the average citizen is crucified by taxation
As we approach what might arguably be the most important NZ election for several generations, perhaps it’s timely to think about our electoral system and system of government. Our considerations shouldn’t be confined to MMP, which delivers some bizarre outcomes that fly in the face of the very
When the announcement was made about the sale of Stuff to its Chief Executive for $1.00 many of us will have chuckled to ourselves and commented that it was overpriced. The whole thing rather reminded me of the one about the guy who drove into a service station in
I applaud the general concept of the headline. It’s about time. Finally, New Zealanders have managed to drag themselves away, kicking and screaming from TV 1 after years and years and years of it seeming that no matter what new TV’s people bought, they managed to superglue their
I have a question. I know I’ll be accused of being a racist for asking it but frankly, those who think I’m a racist may feel free to do so. I know who I am and I’m comfortable in my skin regardless of its colour and I’
When I transcribed the interview earlier this week, I was expecting some reasonably strong reactions here. Let me begin by responding to a comment from garybop: “The big takeaway from the transcript of this interview, apart from the interminable interruptions, was not a word of te reo in sight. When
And there’s more to come When the Prime Minister put the whole country into lockdown back in March, even those among us who thought it was a gross over-reaction were willing to take it on the chin and go along with it. Most of us cooperated and suffered
I haven’t watched New Zealand TV for months. With the election coming up, I thought I’d try just once more to watch this apology for current affairs called Q & A. I’ll post my thoughts later but for now maybe you will have some. JT Why do
