In 1901 the Duke of York, later to become King George V, and his wife Mary embarked on a 45,000 mile Royal Tour to the far flung outposts of the British Empire including New Zealand. On his return, having been created Prince of Wales, he spoke to a gathering
If apartheid wasn’t here before it’s definitely here now. First, let’s elucidate on the real meaning of the word apartheid. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Languages it means historically (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Apartheid is
There is one priority this election: To get this government out. They deserve a boot up the posterior and the last thing we need is three more years of their incompetence and divisive racist policies. We cannot afford this election to be a close-run thing. Those of us on
Two articles in the Weekend Herald caught my attention. One was written by Mike Munro, a former chief of staff for Jacinda Ardern and press secretary for Helen Clark. The other was by Bruce Cotterill, a company director and advisor to business leaders. The articles unsurprisingly, were Chalk and Cheese.
The latest Minister of Police Ginny Andersen is no more than a very lightweight ‘smart-arse’ politician. My wife has a penchant for watching Question(able) Time in the House. I happened to be in the wrong room at the wrong time and caught the Minister trying to evade giving
A mighty totara has fallen. That’s probably how Michael Wood sees it. Possibly not the fallen bit. If there’s one thing this gang of hopeless government ministers are good at it’s sheer arrogance. They appear to think they’re above the law. It would seem very few
David Seymour has Willie Jackson in a panic. ACT’s campaign launch was not to Willie’s liking. According to Willie, a vote for ACT is a vote for the far right. Not for one moment would Willie think a vote for him is a vote for the far left.
Auckland, thanks to years of economic incompetence from left-wing mayors, is in a $325 million dollar financial hole full of the brown stuff, that Mayor Brown (no relation to the other stuff) wants to extricate Auckland from. In order for this to happen, unpalatable decisions will have to be
At last, someone has given the media a dose of reality. That person is, not surprisingly, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown. He uninvited certain media to his press conference to discuss details of the upcoming Council Budget. Those not invited were Stuff, One News and Newshub. In my opinion, the NZ
The King’s Birthday Honours List shows there is something that needs to be said and, as a result, addressed. Who DIDN’T expect Jacinda Ardern’s name to appear? It seems it’s obligatory to give ex-Prime Ministers the highest honour whether they’re deserving of it or
With five months to the election National needs to ensure all their warrior MPs are in the same waka rowing in the same direction. On too many occasions the party has been demonstrating to the electorate that this is not so. Each time, the cause of disunity appears to be
I read, courtesy of Stuff, an article referring to a recruitment drive by the Department of Corrections. They were advertising on the back of buses in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. The advertisement featured a smiling young Maori lady in a prison officer uniform. The ad asks candidates to
Mike Munro, writing in the Weekend Herald, would have us believe Christopher Luxon is going to lose the election for the Nats. He obviously didn’t attend Luxon’s recent meeting in the Northcote electorate. At that meeting Luxon gave a forceful speech and handled the Q&A brilliantly,
Andrea Vance has, in an article on Stuff, tried to advance the theory that ‘National is in the wrong fight’. According to her, National need to leave the Golf and Rotary Clubs (that comment is so last century) and get into the fight for the middle ground of politics leading
Opening the Canvas magazine, as is my wont on a Saturday morning, I was initially disappointed to see Sarah Daniell’s smiling face missing from her editor’s article on page three. I find a smiling face something of a tonic going into the weekend. Especially this weekend, as in
In the lead up to the budget, Chris Hipkins, in an interview with Mike Hosking, avoided most of the questions by answering along the lines of ‘only a few more sleeps to go Mike and you’ll find out’. When the big day came listening to Grant Robertson almost induced
