While frustration grows over the massive damage to both our civil liberties and our economy, damage caused by the over-reactions of Ardern’s Covid emergency-level management and her obvious failure on early border control, more and more voices join the chorus, saying – where’s the data you relied on, Ms?
I know this may come as somewhat of a shock to all you good people, sober of mind (in varying degrees) and firm of conviction, but I am going to suggest The ‘Artful Codger’ Winston Peters and his frightful sidekick “The Fisherman’s Friend” Jacinda Ardern, the duet masquerading as
Yesterday I commented on the very strange case of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, but produced by Stuff writers here in New Zealand. The article, critical of the Fisherman’s Friend, was widely published in Australia but has not appeared here. I found that curious. Perhaps we have
I can’t quite remember being so anxious to head off since I started my apprenticeship. Mrs Kiwi is thrilled too, clearly keen to see the back of me, can’t blame her. Since she commandeered my interwebby HQ in the name of ‘working from home’ the howling from me
Imagine being a ‘news’ outlet pretending to stand on some sort of moral high-ground but deliberately misrepresenting the context and content of a press-pool briefing. Imagine the same outlet rushing to further misrepresent such statements by recording a little vid to post to a wider audience platform. Imagine that same
Trooper Tom, 50060, from West Melton had a vision; it was his brother Jim, his younger by three years and 364 days. Jim was in uniform, he was soaking wet, he didn’t say, or do, anything, he simply vanished almost as instantly as he’d appeared, leaving Tom with
“Today, sometime after 10.30 am Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Cabinet will make the decision of their careers” reads the first paragraph of the front-page report, but that’s not true. The decision of their careers was to ignore the advice of New Zealand’s top epidemiologists, who
I was fortunate to have had some work to do, actual work, over Friday and Saturday. Sure, there’s bits and pieces I can do from home but it’s not productive work, so it’s a small blessing to head off t’shop with a job a’waiting, even
Stuff, yesterday morning, congratulated us all on getting through and advised us, for posterity, “It may pay to jot down a few notes – send yourself an email…because memory fades.” It certainly does, especially when left-wash is happening right in front of our eyes. They are rewriting everything ‘Dear Leader’
My eyes were assailed last night on the telescreen by various ‘celebrities’ and well-knowns pitching a “Love Letter” to NZ small businesses under duress during our COVID crisis, each sloganising a little message, including Stuart Nash who assures us that small business “is the backbone of the country” and vox
Good grief: Stuff: 21 March 2020. The PM was forced to deny New Zealand was going into lockdown. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as reported in Stuff 21 March 2020: “Dismiss everything else,” Ardern said firmly. “We will continue to be your single source of truth.” Also Stuff: 21 March 2020.
Welcome to the left, where competence is controversial, lies are truth, and truth itself springs only from the left, for the benefit of the left. Want to try some? It was always going to get their mits in a mangle, the luvvies and the shouty-people, when Topham Guerin was contracted
Marie Antoinette never said, “Let them eat cake”. It was a propaganda invention, but as for taking the cake, that’s a media reality, happening in front of our very eyes. Hot on the heels of the love-fest following news of the USA’s most insignificant cable news channel ‘praising’
For the nostalgia buffs. Do you remember when the lefty-press (almost all of them) said talk of a lockdown was fake news, totalitarian, and all that? Do you remember when they said it would cause massive social alarm and induce panic? Do you remember when Ms Ardern, the single source
It’s possible to learn a lot in a short time. For instance; if you wanted to learn about mass and gravity quickly you could drop a hammer on your toe: a very brief lesson, but one which you would remember. I did the mental equivalent: listening to a podcast
Good morning fellow lock-downers, and lock-uppers. All hail the Prime Minister, your single source of truth, who can do no wrong. Saturday morning it was revealed that Ms Ardern, “Esteemed Leader of the Nation and Fisherman’s Friend”, was shocked. Some of you would but wish that was true, not
