Recently, a friend and I had the good fortune to meet up with someone who had a connection to the National Party. We engaged in a discussion about where National is at the moment and what we thought was needed for the party to progress from this point. What we
What a difference some bad economic news makes. Earlier last week Scott Morrison was blaming our government for holding up the trans-Tasman bubble, saying if they don’t want Aussie tourists in Queenstown then Cairns will happily have them. This, as it was designed to do, raised the hackles of
There is a road to victory for National but it’s not on the road they’re on. They need to get out of Labour-lite Crescent and turn onto the Alternative Freedom Expressway. Some of the party’s policies are the right ones but there are others that need to
I have chosen not to watch their interview as I regard it as nothing more than a soap opera akin to an episode of Days Of Our Lives. From the clips I have seen, it appears that Meghan (‘it’s all about me’) Markle has presented details which, while having
It’s just not cricket! or so Jacinda Ardern thinks when questioned concerning criticism of her hero Ashley Bloomfield accepting tickets to a Black Caps v Australia T20 game in his capacity as the Director General of Health. When asked if she thought it was appropriate she replied, “I don’
Ardern and her friend “sleepy” Joe Biden appear to have quite a lot in common. One is hard left and the other, if not hard left, is being run by the hard left. One can legitimately be questioned on the state of his faculties and the other, while appearing to
The words alarmist and apologist are becoming more and more applicable to Ardern. An alarmist is a person who tends to raise alarms, especially without sufficient reason, by exaggerating dangers or prophesying calamities. An apologist is one who argues in favour of something unpopular. These two words seem to sum
From memory, it’s about ten days since I last wrote an article and since then rather a lot has taken place. Auckland was put in and pulled out of a pointless three-day lockdown and now we are in a seven-day lockdown which will prove to be equally pointless. These
The NZ Herald reports that hundreds of children living on rural roads near towns are being barred from school buses under a law that hasn’t changed since 1904. On Inland Road near Helensville two Kaipara College students live 3.8 kilometres from the school but the bus is only
A couple of articles ago I wrote that my favourite NZ Herald opinion piece writer, alongside the persistent pedal pusher Simon Wilson, was Audrey Young. Well, now I’ve got a threesome! Number three is Diana Wichtel. After reading her article in the Canvas I found myself, metaphorically speaking, pretty
According to One News, Kiwi international relations experts are aghast at the latest trans-Tasman war of words, which they say is proof of different values and a worsening relationship between Wellington and Canberra. Australia’s decision to strip citizenship from a dual Australian-New Zealand national currently detained in Turkey has
My favourite NZ Herald opinion piece writer, alongside the persistent pedal pusher Simon Wilson, is Audrey Young. When it comes to her beloved Labour Party, led by her beloved Jacinda Ardern, Audrey, nine times out of ten, manages to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Such
Seven o’clock on a Sunday night and there she was, Jacinda, looking suitably frowny faced and dressed in black. Always an ominous sign. She had had to forego one of the highlights of her year – the Big Gay Out. Three people, all from the same family, had been found
In last Friday’s Herald Simon Wilson was back on his hobbyhorse of transport in Auckland. Normally I find plenty of Simon’s content to disagree with but this article had more common sense than usual. The common sense was largely made up of points few would find a reason
What is going on at MediaWorks? First, it was John Banks and now it’s Sean Plunket. It seems as if the company is trying to pre-empt the proposed hate speech laws and get in first. Their CEO Cam Wallace certainly seems to be intent on implementing a woke philosophy.
From viewing the first day of Parliament, Question Time in particular, it is obvious nothing is going to change. Jacinda Ardern (Bluff) and Megan Woods (Bluster), the two motor mouths were both quickly back into overdrive. Both saying plenty but in reality saying nothing. A bit like a car stuck
