Some of Olivia de Havilland’s best acting work was in ‘Gone with the Wind’. Namesake Olivia Wannan, from Stuff’s fact-check gang, emulates de Havilland’s performance in her own version of ‘Gone with the Tribe’ in which her fact-checking ‘The Whole Truth’ column is woefully biased, blessed with
A piece by Aussie-domiciled ‘AAP FactCheck’ but written by Otago-based free-lancer George Driver (a sometimes-contributor to The Spinoff and RNZ) and subsequently published by several New Zealand outlets piqued my interest: a Judith Collins statement, was, they adjudged, “False” – adding “The checkable claim is false”. How very forthright. The “statement”
Interesting indeed…quite a revealing display as an accomplished liar working at their craft constructs a deliberate untruth. Hasneverlied: [leaning forward] “Interesting to hear now [nod] that they want to see an increase in support for the [nod] Serious Fraud Office, there’s [nod] obviously a little history there with
Yesterday, apparently it was ‘World News Day’, gosh. Stuff ‘n Nonsense have published an editorial to accompany the passing of this ignominious event by declaring that “trust” is now “their most important currency”. They may be smarting from the second-lowest “trust” rating as reported by Horizon Research in April this
Pragmatic people they were, New Zealanders in the 1950’s. Concerned less with the consequences of bulldozing a sizeable hill into the adjacent bay to create a longer runway for the capital city’s airport than the consequences of not doing it, the Ministry of Works just went ahead carried
Oh, Dilemma: so sharp are your horns that we cannot grasp them; whatever shall we do? The Socialist Wellington City Council (WCCCP) has a problem thanks to being bit by the Marxist-mosquito, a nasty little bugger that buzzes about in shades of greens and reds, and which, instead of sucking
As ‘Maori Language Week’ comes to a close I thought it appropriate to bring you the reo for ‘gratitude’, but such a word does not exist in the tongue. Did you know that? To understand why we need to hear from the brilliant Mr William Colenso, a prolific publisher in
Using the Delayed-Matching-To-Sample (DMTS) test, animal psychologists have shown that dogs may remember an event for two minutes but a chimpanzee just for 20 seconds, whereas the average media trooper, trained and skilled (I am very sure), exhibits just under half that primate’s recall. This is a puzzle worth
Poor Matariki, about to suffer the same cultural fate as Guy Fawkes – that is to say it’s about to be hung, (re)drawn, and quartered: butchered till it meets the approval of the appropriate Commissar’s Committee charged with Single Cultural Truth. Delighted with recognition of the occurrence, and
The so-called “experts” made a simple, but huge – absolutely huge – mistake and over-stated the mortality of COVID to the power of 10, yes, really, not 2, nor 3, but 10! From Cambridge University Press, authored by Ronald B. Brown, PhD: “Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation“
Good morning, don’t you love the sweet smell of hypocrisy in the air today? It’s either that or the odeur-grande emitted by the Labour Party’s publishing arm, Stuff, as they burn their own credibility to the ground. Seemingly sparked by the mischievous re-posts by David Wong-Tung of
For the life of me, I can’t work out why our “single source of truth” continues to lie about ‘that’ message. I have my hunches, but first, we need to consider why the message by “someone from comms” elicits only obfuscation from the great podium of porkies, which to
Crikey; what a masterpiece in the delivery of mendacity was Jacinda Ardern AKA Hardernurly’s outpouring to the pleb’s on Sunday past: “there’s never been any inconsistency from this podium.” That’s hilarious, but it was only the set-up for the real howler: “Never, ever have we made
Passing a little under the radar, but picked up by Stuff’s Thomas Coughlan, was an exchange in parliament during Wednesday’s Question Time which encapsulated the utter incompetence of this governing coalition, as well as exposing the prime minister’s penchant for pulling rabbits out of a hat when
It will come as no comfort to Jacinda Ardern that her obfuscations of the last seven days haven’t gone un-noticed and yesterday’s piece by Bryce Edwards on The Democracy Project is a very good pastiche of the obvious holes in her handling of the border problems fall-out. Much
I hope Mr Hipkins doen’t tell me off, but some things about our ‘South Auckland family’ don’t add up. Is it alright to talk about it? After all, the repercussions are destroying the livelihoods of many of our Auckland friends and costing the country billions, so everything should
