Dear Editor On Thursday, my wife and I visited the Countdown supermarket in Taupo to do some essential shopping. * We found there was only one Entry point – good. * At that Entry point, a gentleman was posted to control the flow of shoppers – good. * At that Entry point, there was no
Dear Editor did you see/hear/read the words of David Seymour, who presented last night’s abortion legislation amendment to scrap proposed “exclusion zones”? As you’ll be aware, his amendment was passed, very much to the chagrin of the Abortion supporters in our Parliament. But Seymour explained that
Dear Editor The Sunday Star Times‘ editor Tracy Watkins went to some breast-beating length in last Sunday’s edition to explain why her paper is “staying neutral”. On politics, that is. But in another equally topical and important field, Stuff’s attitude is this: “Stuff accepts the overwhelming scientific consensus
Dear Editor Score: Australia 1, New Zealand routed Ardern’s gauche handling of her meeting with Prime Minister Morrison further underlines how useless she is. Anyone with any backbone would have sent out a no holds barred warning to New Zealand born criminals that they would face extreme consequences if
Dear Editor, Tom Roa, Associate Professor at Waikato University, is reported on 20/2/20 as saying many things about the Rangiowahia affray which are not true and which he ought to know are not true. First, there were no “atrocities” at Rangiowahia. It was an action planned by the
Dear Editor Things like the “patriarchy” and “gender stereotypes” are the fabrications of whinging feminists and liberals who use whatever political lies they can to convince the world to serve them. All it takes to combat this self-centred notion is a tiny bit of common sense. Modern feminism is a
Dear Editor Can the long-suffering taxpayer expect full recovery costs from these low lifes? Police and emergency services costs? Hospital costs, security costs, legal costs and prison costs? Or will it be another hug and a cuddle? While these queue-jumping vermin are wasting scarce resources I know of people who
Dear Editor New Zealand features prominently in a report that contains the latest UN figures on Global Aging. And it reminds me of our need to implement a Retirement Benefit that is fiscally durable but also equitable, in the face of our existing National Superannuation which is rapidly becoming fiscally
Dear Editor I’ve noticed a lot of people freaking out over the speech Ricky Gervais gave at the Golden Globes. It seems that few people allow the mere possibility to cross their minds that the whole thing was scripted. The cameras did not find the right faces at the
Dear Editor, I have noticed in recent times that some occupations seem to have become staffed by people who are obviously not New Zealanders by birth. I am in no way racist and have no concerns whatever about a person’s origins or the colour of their skin. But what
Dear Editor All right-thinking people condemn Trump’s murder of distinguished military leader Qassem Soleimani. One should remember, however, that Trump was following the precedent set by another American president, Barak Obama. Obama, your readers will recall, also murdered a distinguished leader in the Islamic terror industry, one Osama bin
Dear Editor The PTPM has done it again. Anything that reflects badly on the CoL gets buried so that all appears sweet, efficient and open on the outside. A lot like the mudguard of a farm truck – shiny on the outside, but covered with the brown stuff on the inside.
Dear Editor Spare my days. The long-suffering listeners of RNZ are just recovering from the endless Tuia 250 series of programmes and interviews. These belittled the achievement of Captain Cook in finding New Zealand in 1769 and his reporting of it to the post stone-age world. As if the associated
Dear Editor There has been a lot of talk lately about the measles outbreaks in Samoa and in New Zealand. Yesterday (26 Nov 2019), a New Zealand immunologist by the name of Dr Helen Petousis-Harris was quoted on Stuff as saying that New Zealand should be ashamed for spreading measles
Dear Editor I must credit Hon W. Peters with having some concern for the environment. He has announced a fund, small in relation to the problem, but nevertheless a significant amount. Social pressure on the MPs by concerned conservationists (real people, not DoC staff) has resulted in finance to research
Dear Editor You should encourage readers to write to their local MP regarding the Zero Carbon Bill and post a weekly letter. It seems shaming is the only way to get them to listen to the public. I haven’t received a response to my complaint but that’s OK
