I wrote a previous article about turning the tide of voting support among long-term, committed Labour voters. The following letter has been reprinted with the author’s permission. This man is a dear friend. Over many years, we have exchanged good-natured rivalry about our different political standpoints. He is now
Anything is Better than Lies and Deceit Leo Tolstoy In the continuing saga of the government’s vaccination campaign, the daily deepening of the divide continues to split family and friends with divisions between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated as well as the many other segregations we are now faced
KSK Stuff It Once Again, MSM Misrepresents Reality A Stuff article on 16 October by Northland reporter Denise Piper featured Northland Maori. She met with some of them from the small town of Moerewa. According to her Stuff profile, Denise Piper has been reporting in Te Tai Tokerau for more
KSK The rain continues in my neck of the woods. So far, four days and nights of non-stop rain and thick fog that blankets the area, and I cannot see the boundary. It could be a metaphor for the confusion and uncertainty that are obscuring the country. The landscape is
KSK So now we have it. Lockdowns will continue until we all behave like good little children and have the almost mandatory vaccine. What is the PM smoking? A 90% vaccination rate for all DHBs? And then the booster shots that will also be required. The vaccine designed for Alpha
KSK “Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance” Stephen Keague, author. When you have a plan, you can implement it. If you plan to drive to Wellington, you can study Google Maps, evaluate the different routes, get everyone strapped in with snacks and bottles of water, activate the know-it-all voice
KSK KSK Has a Master’s Degree in Management from the University of Auckland. Once again, we waited to learn our lockdown fate. To witness the excruciating calisthenics of our PM. One of the most critical elements of this whole sorry story is the Government’s lack of change management.
KSK The organisers and attendees of the park protests this weekend have every reason to be cock-a-hoop about their achievement, even in the face of impending and threatened prosecution. The numbers were impressive; reported attendance varied widely, but thousands arrived to make their feelings known and to picnic in bubbles
KSK It’s Super Saturday. Vaccination en masse. The mandate of madness continues with ‘expert’ Michael Baker now calling for 100% vaccination. In the immortal words of Michael Caton in The Castle, 1997, someone needs to “Tell him he’s dreamin’!” Sadly, public vilification of those brave souls who refuse
KSK I don’t buy the reason we are given for the introduction of the ‘Lectern of Lies’. Luke Malpass (14/10/21) has it that it was to put all media on an equal footing, to allow everyone the same information at the same time. Isn’t that what
KSK I’m not quite sure how I felt about the insurgents who infiltrated Northland being chased down to own up to their transgressions and end their continued silence. It felt like the entire country was baying for their blood. It seems an appalling state of affairs that there was
KSK There are many things in life I don’t understand. Why water is wet, for example. Why decreasing the OCR did not result in anything other than the uncontrolled increase in house prices in a market awash with almost free money. But what goes up tends to come down.
KSK It is raining. Again. It is also the day that, once again, there is another lockdown/lockout/lockup in place. In yet another diatribe from the lectern of lies, we have been berated by our stern arm-waving, head-rolling, eye-squinching Head Prefect, like wilful children for failing to prevent this
