A bit of crystal-ball gazing. Coming soon to a screen near you: The Ihumatao Fix, a must-watch. Containing fascinating elements of intrigue and chicanery not seen since ‘Dr Strangelove’, the ‘Fix’ has all the hallmarks of political manipulation and leverage more reminiscent of the Helen Clark era than hapless Ardern’
Welcome to the Dominion Post whose motto is ‘Facts don’t matter’: Fact Check: “Trump referred to “politicizing” of the coronavirus by Democrats as “their new hoax.” He did not refer to the coronavirus itself as a hoax. Throughout his speech, Trump reiterated that his administration is taking the threat
During Sean Plunket‘s “Working Group” segment of his afternoon talk-show, Friday before last (21st Feb), Martyn Bradbury described The BFD as a “far-right hate-speech” site. That’s fair enough I suppose as in Bradbury’s view anyone less extreme-left than Che Guevara is far-right and anything less effusive of
When Maggie Sullivan, ‘Media Columnist’ for ‘The Washington Post’ (Stuff’s venerated, but actually unhinged and execrable, Aunt) vomited forth over the pages of said unctuous journal last week positing that the time for ‘fairness’ in coverage of the United States President has come to an end and that the
Oh, no’s! Double plus ungood. Help! Someone, anyone, call the Ministry of Truth, this must be memory-holed immediately: “Figures from Australia’s Department of Home Affairs showed 907 people had their visas cancelled based on character requirements in the 2018 financial year, 453 of those were Kiwis. And at
Leilani Farha, the nebulous nong from the United Nations has gone, leaving lefties all afroth. “Goodness me”, they proclaim, “did you hear what she just said?” “No, what was it?” “Adequate housing is a human right, and this country’s gone and let everyone down! She said it’s right
Ssshhh…while you were sleeping the academic elves were hard at work preparing entry-level indoctrination material for our Level 4 (10-14-year-old) curriculum. Yes: we have a brand new ‘School Journal’ titled ‘Ti Tiriti O Waitangi’, released, or set loose, on our kids just eighteen months ago. It’s a comic
Not happy RNZ, it seems, perhaps wilting under the withering glare of citizen journalists ‘intimidating’ their precious investigators, decided to give someone else a kicking on Valentine’s Day, putting the boot into a group of amateur archaeologists for the unforgivable sin of thinking differently, outside the orthodoxy, but who
Mr Simon Bridges: Leader of the Opposition in Her Majesty’s New Zealand Government wishes to clarify his position on working with Mr Peter’s and NZ First, “no if’s, no but’s”: I hope that is that clear to you all. Have a nice, if confused, day.
It’s been a fascinating last 48-or-so hours as our wonderful news media have grappled with themselves metaphorically and morally over the Goff computer hack, having to superficially tut-tut criminal behaviour but actually, in reality, detesting the alluring power of Tease, knowing that certainly salacious and sensational material is out
An “announcement was made by Maori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta on Sunday and greeted by loud cheers from an audience of about 300″ but, unfortunately, it wasn’t her resignation, so what else could it have been? It’s simple: “All unpaid rates arrears on Maori freehold land will be
Editor’s note: additional information is provided at the end of the article. Unless something drastic happens and ACT implodes, they are getting my list-vote. I urge you do so too, if we want a conservative coalition in charge of this country. It’s simple: * Mr Seymour has worked hard
All prayers this morning, please call on St Christopher, patron saint of correct directions, to help Rosemary McLeod as she’s all over the place, suffering from a bad case of TDS shivers. Claiming a video recording “shows him [Trump] abusing his power” (it actually shows the ceiling and nothing
Enjoying contributor Christie’s piece from the other day ‘Alison Mau: A Comedy of Errors’ I chose to ignore said author’s advice and read the original article on Stuff that spurred the clever response. Christie is right: Mau’s piece is indeed a comedy of errors. “Sales of George
Information Satire (Possibly) It came as a bolt from the blue. An email arrived from a crazy lady. I’d occasionally scribbled some words for a website catering to fellow right-wing nut-jobs and had submitted a piece for the editor’s consideration vis-à-vis publication. The email from said Devil-ess arrived
Grap your woollen hats, button your coats, buy a hot water-bottle; it looks like the world is going to get colder, soon. Scientists (real ones) have been speculating over a reversal of phase in the North Atlantic Current for a couple of years now, finding intermittently colder temperatures in the
