Jack Tame, writing in the NZ Herald, has come to the conclusion that we are all hypocrites. I presume he included himself. I found much of his article’s narrative quite simplistic; in the sense that talk is cheap but the consequences of what is being spoken are often not
Love for Jacinda was effectively burnt to an ember on Friday. It is fair to say that a large majority of her so-called team of five million have turned against her. For every person that turned out, there will be thousands upon thousands who are thinking the same way.
Simon Wilson is one of those irritating journalists who can’t see past their own blinkered ideology. He writes drivel. It’s drivel because it does not deal in reality. He thinks it is real because in his worldview we are either going to be burnt to a cinder or
The UMR poll deliberately released last week appeared designed to be a hit job on Judith Collins. Most of the press releases carried the headline ‘Unprecedented poll result as David Seymour overtakes National leader Judith Collins in new UMR poll’. According to UMR this was ‘unprecedented’, a statement proved incorrect
How convenient, even cynically coincidental, that a UMR poll was released a few days after the somewhat disastrous Roy Morgan poll showing support for Labour had plummeted into the thirties. Given the idiotic announcements from the government over the last few weeks, the result was hardly surprising. Roy Morgan does
The NZ Herald reports there are more than 80,000 job listings for the quarter ending June 30, 2021 according to data from TradeMe. Labour shortages across the country have led to fierce competition among employers for staff. TradeMe Jobs Director Matt Tolich described it as a job hunters’ market,
Ardern’s political philosophy at its most basic is all about control. This has become more evident this term as her electoral mandate allows her carte blanche to do whatever she wants. We can call her a socialist, a Marxist, even a communist and can point to some truth in
If I hadn’t been laid low with a winter bug I would have commented earlier, the subject being the editorial in last Saturday’s Weekend Herald. These days the authors never identify themselves and, if last week’s effort was anything to go by, with good reason. If anyone
Those of us who watch The Crown will have had their memories refreshed by the episodes featuring Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. With basically an all-male cabinet and inner circle, she ruled with an iron fist, hence her nickname the Iron Lady. She took no nonsense from any of
Two opinion pieces in the Weekend Herald made for interesting reading. One from Fran O’Sullivan, the other from Michael Cullen. In respect of Fran, I find myself disagreeing with her a little more often than I used to. As for Michael Cullen, pretty much permanent disagreement there folks. Both
As we are aware, this is a government devoid of talent. Business experience is as scarce as hen’s teeth, and as a result of their ignorance, they are not business-friendly. Community work or similar is not a qualification for the rigours of government, certainly not at ministerial level.
The Prime Minister appears hell-bent on implementing her Marxist agenda. Like every other agenda of its type, it is glaringly obvious that it isn’t going to work. Fanciful ideas rarely do. It is over two years to the next election, and if they last that long this government
Both ‘Pravda’ One News and ‘Fake’ Newshub did a paid Labour Party hit job on National on Tuesday night by deliberately twisting Paul Goldsmith’s comments on colonisation. The comment he made that overall Maori had benefited from colonisation is incontestably patently correct. Anyone trying to deny that fact is
Sunday afternoon, a long weekend and time for a bit of net surfing. I fancied I was on a boring exercise but no, I caught an unexpected wave. The wave was rather a tempestuous one in the form of Andrea Vance, a senior journalist with Stuff. It appears her waters
New Zealand is badly in need of a government that understands good decision making and the economic consequences of those decisions. We have not had one since late 2017. The current lot of reprobates are 69 individuals, playing at being in charge and having no idea of how to go
It appears at the weekend a new bikie gang emerged. They don’t appear to have a name so I will give them one – The Lawbreakers. These half-brained clueless clots appear to think that the way to get other road users on their side is to deliberately harass and
