In a perfect display of the fourth estate’s (or should I say the left estate’s) contempt for debate and the free exchange of considered opinions, Stuff on Saturday editorialised in prose and cartoon, box-holing all criticism of Dear Leader’s handling of our COVID response as conspiracy theories
According to the “Fisherman’s Friend” Jacinda Ardern, and in the language of the supremely arrogant at the Labour campaign launch on Saturday: “When people ask, is this a COVID election, my answer is: Yes, it is.” The epitome of the Yorkshire adage ‘Where there’s muck, there’s brass’
Crown lawyers are asking the three judges deciding the case of lockdown legality to play politics. That’s grubby, definitely, and corrupt, probably. The suspicion arises of political finger-dipping in our High Court with Crown Law urging Justices Thomas, Venning and Ellis to consider the “unintended consequences” of their decision,
Sceptical of most anything emanating from beneath the rafters of Massey Agricultural College, it was with some cynicism that I was drawn to the ‘Pre-election Survey’, accompanied as it was by images, allegedly, of the major protagonists, on Stuff. In the header we had a clear question, and a choice
In attempting to disparage the new National Party leadership as something from the Stone Age, cartoonist Jim Hubbard actually does “Saint Judith of Papakura” (no internal bias there) great credit. The plagiarised theme is woefully unoriginal, obviously, but unintentionally accurate as Judith grimaces getting traction, taking the load of an
She’s rough, I tell ya’, in the sandpit known as the Dompost editorial office where the five-year-olds are giving newcomer Collins a bit of a kicking in an eleven-paragraph snivel-fest. Suffice it to say the diatribe carries all the expected cliches: divisive, baggage, associations with shadowy attack-bloggers, along with
A strange thing happened on the way to my article the other day. Doing most of my cogitating in the morning hours has its benefits and its disadvantages. Having my attention drawn mid-dayish this week to a somewhat ludicrous quote attributed to Todd Muller in a Stuff article by Jane
The glibness of Ministers Woods and Robertson’s announcements following news of the closure of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter show the pair up to be not only chinless but gutless too. The whole ‘air of inevitability’ throwaway to the destruction of the far-South economy and Meridian Energy profits belies the
Desperately seeking their fifteen-minute share of fame, two confused shouty-people are woe begotten, poor things, after their masterpiece was “defaced” by an unknown, but public-spirited, artwork-corrector in the hippy-hangout of Takaka, in Golden Bay. The pair’s nitwittery is on full display in the article in which they claim they
Welcome to the Lynching of History, I hope you’re enjoying the spurious spectacle. In the current episode, we’ve seen the super-sanctimonious eye of contemporary woke-think focused on some of the peculiarities particular to several past-performers of assumed cultural iconology. True it is that some were never deserving; our
With so many of the blocks already stacked in this wannabe socialist utopia of ours, according to one particular wag at that regular fountain of meandering philosophical inquiry, the local watering hole, we as a country may as well go all-in Stalin-esque and have ourselves a ‘Show Trial’ of sorts.
The once-esteemed Lancet has long taken a leftward-bent trajectory and that’s why, call me cynical if you like, before reading any editorial content published by the outfit I recommend a grain of salt at the ready. In the course of the last week-and-a-bit, that journal of medicine published two
It’s fascinating to watch the enigma known as Jacinda as she rumbles across the political landscape, a bit like a traction engine; powerful, emitting lots of smoke and noise as it rolls slowly on. Polarising too. Writing a couple of weeks ago in the Spectator Brendan O’Neill sounded
What does Fake News do when confronted with their own fake news? Well, they fake it, and by doing so descend from fake news to something lower. I know not what that may be called, maybe deep-fake-news or worse-than-fake, perhaps vandalised-news? Who knows? Maybe just ‘New Zealand Herald‘. Because when
On Monday I was enlightened by Siouxie, ‘cos Siouxie does facts, and this week she informed us that “Videos like these are endangering lives”. What videos, you may ask? Videos recommending the use of power saws for haircuts, perhaps? Videos with instructions for making gunpowder in your bedroom? Well; no.
