The strange case of the Fascist Pasta has all the elements necessary for high drama: vitriol, hyperbole, insult and abuse. Some hair-pulling has even been reported. It may seem totally appropriate originating, as this terrible scrap has, in the spiritual home of both pasta and opera and engaging in fierce
In a sign that drugs – or threats (both are equally effective I’m informed) – work, and proving the steady decline of standards in NZ media, where the flow of intellect has been reduced to a mere dribble, Damien Grant has succumbed to the sinking lid of stupidity and thrashed out
The migrations of the Sooty Shearwater will have been an invaluable aid to Polynesian seafaring explorers. Perhaps they were their primary navigational aid. Indeed the entire ‘Polynesian triangle’ of exploration from Hawaii in the north, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the east and New Zealand south-west can be traced by
It’s important to remember, sometimes, just how easily appearances can be deceiving. So when a man says he wants to kill a policeman and, while carrying out that attempt, repeatedly yells “Allahu Akbar”, it’s important to note, at Stuff anyway, that the man is clearly not a Muslim.
One of the interesting things concerning the rise to power of the cult of Ardern is the effect in emboldening the neo-Marxists among us to push their failed ideology harder, particularly in the academic/educational ranks. It’s been seen often and commented likewise here many times, but I thought
They just can’t help themselves; lefties. ‘Never mind the facts, just put the boot in any way’, seems to be the go-to formula for left-wing mouthpieces, and predictably true to form the head of some medical union or other along with the fuschia-coloured hair lady both chattered aloud and
My normally reliable, indeed immaculate, sources have been unable to confirm the veracity of all of what I am about to say, but, given the import of its content, and in consideration of you good people who deserve to be ahead of the news, well ahead in many cases, I
Requiescat In Pace: 2020. Although many will be glad to see you gone, you should be remembered as the Remarkable Year of Dishonesty, Duplicity, Hypocrisy and The Madness of Crowds (Illustrated): Beginning the year badly, and deservedly, behind in the polls due to a peculiar, but entirely predictable, penchant for
‘Trust us, we know what we’re doing’ is, sadly, not a motto that sits comfortably in the perception of NZ Police by the general public; think more, ‘Heavy-handedness is our thing’. So when the NZ Herald announced front-page on the 29th of December that police had set up a
I’m not a member of the firearms-owning cohort, but having just read this document: I certainly sympathise with their concerns about law enforcement’s rapidly escalating demonisation of their community. New, or renewed, firearms-license applicant’s now have a compulsory requirement to name their ‘health practitioner.’ Their practitioners are
Our falling achievements in educating our youth have been in the news lately with (very) concerning and consistent reversals in reading, writing, mathematics and science. The educationists are letting everybody down. Time for a re-think. A microcosm of the general malaise may be seen in the case of Wainuiomata High
The march of the dullards through our society, most obviously reflected in the falling standards of our ‘news’ organisations, continues apace. They are guided not by the rational, but by the emotional, which is hugely subjective and responsive more to one’s own world view and political outlook than reality.
A compulsive obfuscator and consummate, incorrigible liar is our prime minister, we all know that, but Monday’s effort on the Mallard debacle was gold-medal standard, truly world-class, a masterpiece in mendacity. She hit the truth out of the park. Bravo PM! Listen from 07:25 Interviewed on Red Radio’
There was a piece of spray-painted graffiti I used to pass by regularly in Wellington, in the car park of a building on Tory St. It was a play on the words of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and proclaimed “We will never be free until the last politician is
The execrable “Our Truth” section of self-flagellating Stuff exposing their past ‘racism’ is part-farce, part-comedy. Belting out the beaut idea just a couple of weeks ago the racism-hunters cited “One front-page article from the 1800s” which reported, ‘”For an inferior race, coming in contact with one greatly superior, there are
That ‘Boss-Lady’ Jacinda Ardern can’t fathom something comes as no surprise to anybody actually observing her, as opposed to her fan-base which glibly thumbs-up her every face-page post. So when she says “I cannot fathom how at any point someone would think that was a good idea, it’s
