The one topic that is screwing society up more than any other is climate change or global warming or whatever the latest catchphrase is. Let me make it clear at the start we are all aware of climate change. There have been ice ages and warming periods and floods and
Watching the UK election and how it unfolded induced something of a longing to a return to the FPP system of voting. Whether it has appeal or not, what the UK election showed is that it is easier to get the desired result if enough people want it. It avoids
In part one of this series, I dealt with the woke society. In this article, I will talk about the politically correct nonsense that has in fact, been around for some decades. Wokeness and political correctness have a certain similarity. They both invoke a climate where one is expected to
Planet Earth, i.e, the world, is falling off its axis. Funnily enough, it’s the people most affected by it that are the ones causing the problems. It’s not the “OK Boomers” Ms Swarbrick was talking about recently. Definitely not. It’s the Millennials and Gen Z that
Frederick Forsyth, a writer and author whose name you may be familiar with, writes a weekly opinion piece in the Express newspaper. The Express is available here in a weekly edition and there’s more reading in that than there is in a week’s worth of a local rag.
I buy a newspaper on the weekend as it is about the only one the stable produces that has something of journalistic substance to it. The weekday one often resembles a reincarnation of the NZ Truth which was aiming at a particular market. The paper I’m referring to is,
I have just read a very good article on Breitbart News entitled ‘Greta the teenage puppet goes full Marxist.’ According to Greta the climate crisis is not just about the environment. Surprise, surprise, it’s a crisis of human rights, justice and political will. Colonial, racist and patriarchal systems have
It appears if you were born with a nasty side to your personality you are destined for the left side of politics. Politicians on the left have a propensity to be anti-democratic, unwilling to listen to the other side of a discussion and have a mantra that it’s
On reading that the Government was going to give “people in care” for less than three years the vote, my 39-year-old daughter said, quite correctly, that this Government is a joke. It is, in fact, more than that. It is a collection of disparate people who were enabled
It is of some considerable relief that Grace Millane’s killer was found guilty. In my opinion, with the evidence that was produced, it would have been difficult for the jury to find otherwise. Every time a case like this comes up and a guilty verdict is given there is
Our dearly beloved Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, will be taking a few days off after having a wisdom tooth removed. It caused me to reflect on my young neighbour who recently had four out but, with a two year old and no nanny, kept calm and carried on under some
Politicians of all shades appear to be having a brain fade when it comes to recognising the critical part agriculture plays in the economy and therefore the overall wealth of the country. Last Thursday hundreds of farmers held a protest at Parliament organised by the farming lobby group 50 Shades
An article on Politik on Monday under the heading “Bridges uses the Zero Carbon Bill to redefine National” made for very interesting reading. Perusing the information in the article was like putting the pieces of a jigsaw together. According to Richard Harman, the decision by National to support the Bill,
I have just returned from a very pleasant week away starting at the Taranaki Rhododendron Festival and then going to Wellington to meet with staff at the Taxpayers Union and catch up with friends. The time away was made more pleasant as there was only time for a cursory glance
It would appear that a number of those writing for A Weekend Newspaper thought that, presumably because it was a long weekend, we needed a few laughs. Pages 18 to 23 provided plenty of those, many from the usual contributors. The first enforced guffaw came very early on page 18
Watching Parliament’s Question Time on Thursday was akin to having been given a free ticket to the Barnum and Bailey Circus. The Speaker was at his pedantic best doing all he could to get under the skin of the Opposition. Michael Woodhouse, in the absence of Gerry Brownlee, had
