Dear One News, Thanks for taking the time to poll the public on 3-Waters co-governance arrangements, finding that 79% of those polled had little or no understanding of the concept. It doesn’t help that you folks don’t have any understanding either. You’re a bit thick, so to
The connection between Dennis Waterman and Rauparaha may not be obvious at first but bear with me. It was forty years ago Waterman and co-star George Cole from the wildly popular TV series ‘Minder’ released their Christmas song “What are we gonna get for ‘er indoors?” exploiting the success of
Laughable and ridiculous, but powerfully backed, the assault on all things conservative continues with new demonisations and ridiculous vignettes drawing associations between nut-cases and the right almost weekly it seems. The full-on free publicity for anti-right conspiracy theorists saw red-radio and Dom-Pravda this week endorsing Histories of Hate: The Radical
When Elon Musk, the first to respond to Richard Dawkins’s tweet on this country’s “ridiculous science education policy” and who knows a little science himself, said simply: “This is insane”, we should ask ourselves if the outspoken blokes have a point to make. If criticism is coming from
I’m not sure the sloganeers of the National Party got it completely right with “Local Water Done Well”. Expect that line to get savaged in social media memes, but then again: who cares? As long as people are discussing National’s alternative arrangement and with it the absence of
Good morning Christopher. I note your propensity to use the word ‘incredible’ at every opportunity that affords it, and many that don’t. You whip it out in describing even the very mundane, so much so that your words become hyperbole, and frankly: that’s not credible. I heard you
Remarkable, laughable, and sinister in equal measures, the righteous have assembled a posse of pointy-heads eager to review the protests which occurred in the grounds of Parliament Buildings, upon the anniversary of same. Taking in the view afforded from the saddle of their high hobby horses they cast their one
The late Sir Apirana Ngata is a man I never knew personally but from his preserved words and the reverence in which he was held as a scholar in contrasting worlds: those of Maori lore and British law, as a politician of long (nearly forty years) standing, and as a
drongo: noun This great Australian insult was originally an RAAF term for a raw recruit. It first appeared in the early 1940s, but its origin reaches back to the name of the racehorse Drongo, who ran in the early 1920s. No Phar lap, Drongo was famed for its poor form,
I’ve got to hand it to Mr Luxon: even the messiest pooch mightn’t have matched him in delivering such a dog’s breakfast performance as Wednesday morning on RNZ. In Lux-plaining the rationale behind his party’s stated aversion to ‘co-governance’, his attempts to say something while saying
There was a refreshingly honest statement in last Saturday’s DomPost editorial, now online at Stuff with the headline How outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be remembered. In the piece, we find the statement: There is no doubt Ardern was a darling of the educated left who dominate the
Wishing she had died in the gas chambers? What sort of putrid, venal, vitriol is that? It’s a statement that goes beyond misogyny: it’s hate speech, clearly alluding, as it does, to the forced extermination, the brutal genocide of millions by the most vile regime to blight Western
The most remarkable of the retiring leader’s staff is surely her comms team. There’s a large number of them, to be fair, but they still warrant credit for their efficiency in manipulating the messaging around her every doing, or undoing, and for their ability to disinfect, or poison,
The worst thing about this worst government in my lived experience, is the way they have emboldened the zealots: the authoritarians of the hard left who believe, who have always believed, that they and they alone know what’s good for us, and that only they decide what’s good
Mythical being of the day: Kraken [krah-kuhn] noun A large and aggressive sea-beast said to inhabit Nordic waterways principally, but ubiquitous in Scandinavian folk-lore. Capable of forming powerful whirlpools sufficient to imperil passing nautical traffic, they are in all instances to be avoided. Never photographed in its native fjords it
Isn’t it ironic, this whole egg debacle? It’s ironic in two ways: the first in respect of unintended consequences. There are limits to the effectiveness of forcing behaviours. Intimidated by shouty people with slogans our politicians caved to the lefty social-medials and determined that battery hens were miserable
