The polls strongly suggest that Simon Bridges has about as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as I do: ZERO. This is not an attack on Mr Bridges, his popularity, leadership, competence or personality. It is a simple numeric exercise. With 120 available seats, the party that has 61 ends
In response to a 06 May post by Cam “No, Simon, We Don’t Need a Better Form of Socialism” rantykiwi responded: A significant proportion of small and medium business was arguably insolvent before the COVID lockdown and had been for some time. All that has really happened is their
Since the world wide COVID-19 farce started, we’ve been subjected to a variety of weird and wonderful opinions from many who, if we are to be realistic and pragmatic, really should know better. We all know about the ‘Original Sin’ perpetrated on the entire world by the Chinese government
Not satisfied with blindly and non-analytically peddling the government’s propaganda and presenting Jacinda Ardern as the saviour of the nation, covering her in yet more fairy dust and glitter, without questioning the veracity or accuracy of her utterances, the New Zealand Herald last week joined our schoolmarm, scolding prime
Making decisions on the trot is never a good way to do anything. Ask any small business owner. They don’t just blindly bumble along adjusting what they do to fit whatever the flavour of the day might be. Even the smallest business venture does cash flow projections and measures
The headline on Stuff (originally from The Age) reads Coronavirus: A man got Covid-19 three times. Should we be worried about reinfection? Simple headline. Simple answer: Yes, of course we should be. This potentially makes it far worse than we ever expected it to be and the ability of our
As we move closer to a possible change in the alert level, I can’t help wondering how the COVID-19 responses all over the world might have been different if the people at the forefront of managing them had not been career bureaucrats, politicians and academics – all of whom retained
During lockdown, we’ve all had to find new ways to keep ourselves amused and entertained. I have to admit that the daily commute between bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and lounge started to lose its appeal after about three days though it’s a relief knowing I can leave the bar
Obsessed by puritanical, petty enforcement of the most basic of rules, but often oblivious to the real damage of the serious stuff, our nation seems to be one of appalling nosey parkers and interfering busybodies. The past couple of weeks really have shown us up. Happy to dob in a
At the beginning of March, our government would have been very wise to take serious steps in sealing our border. They did not do so despite the recently repeated slogans from our “slogan princess” Jacinda Ardern about going in early and hard, and the result is an economy in tatters,
Gee, I’d just had a chat with myself after writing my last post criticising the competence of this government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. “Danny,” I said to myself “perhaps it’s time to back off a little and stop sniping at them. Try to look for some
I try to be logical and analytical. I don’t make decisions lightly and I spend a lot of time thinking through all the consequences of any action I’m about to take. There’s one thing that really does get me riled and to very high levels. That is
Berating Bauer Media for reacting to the government’s inability to think of unintended consequences of its actions really is inappropriate. You’d need to have been living in another galaxy to not be aware of the struggles of print media over the past few years. Bauer is just one.
I’m suffering from SIS – Severe Indecision Syndrome. Most unlike me. I’m usually overopinionated rather than under but right now, on one hand, I get this overwhelming feeling that lockdown might well be the only way we’re going to survive this Covid-19 virus. On the other hand, I
The below Stuff headline is totally inaccurate, irresponsible, misleading and scaremongering in the extreme and Fairfax media should be ashamed. “New model shows coronavirus could kill 80,000 Kiwis without lock-down ” Henry Cooke – 17:44, Mar 26 2020 “It also shows that the lockdown may have to last far longer
With the greatest respect to everybody (which of course means I’m going to be anything but respectful), our border control people (bless them all), are as varied a group of individuals as you’d find in any broad sample of our population. Some of them will be smart, great
