Is Luxon a chameleon? Does he know if he is Red, Blue or Green? In his latest foray on the global scene, he seems to have gone Red by appointing Ardern to Biden’s new State Departmentt Equity Action Plan, a global one which includes New Zealand. This action plan
“The Devil wears PRADA” (2006) was a comedy-drama starring Meryl Streep and was loosely based on real-life Vogue Editor Anna Wintour. The title of this film could equally apply to Golriz Ghahraman. Recently resigned Greens MP Ghahraman was caught on camera playing the Devil in Scottie’s Boutique, Ponsonby, allegedly
An unusual celestial event occurred on the same day as New Zealand’s Parliamentary Elections on the 14th of October 2023. A “Ring of Fire” appeared around the sun in daytime. This was a partial solar eclipse caused by the moon passing in front of the sun, seen mainly in
New Zealand First’s popularity seems to be increasing with every poll whilst Act seems to be in decline. Some say Act peaked too early. Act has joined the ‘Singles Club’. The latest poll by Talbot Mills has Act on 9%. This is not far off the Verian and Curia
According to the Minor Parties Debate, Act Leader David Seymour does not want to be ‘Brothers in Arms’ with NZ First’s Winston Peters at this juncture. Jenna Lynch-Mob (Lynch) after the debate opined that for someone who hated Winston Peters so much David Seymour was actually a low-rent Winston
According to Rod Emmerson, cartoonist for the ‘Ferald’ (NZ Herald), Labour is a dead parrot. Dead Parrot is a reference to the ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch featuring John Cleese and a dead parrot which the vendor refuses to acknowledge is dead. A bit like Tova refusing to believe the obvious in
Chippy (Chris Hipkins), after bumping into Volodymyr Zelensky in a corridor at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, needed a bit of a bump himself in the polls. The latest Taxpayers Union poll for Preferred Prime Minister showed him dropping 6 points. The recent One News poll shows Hipkins only 4%
Hipkins and McAnulty have performed a water-conjuring trick by making co-governance disappear. This was a word which we thought had become part of the New Zealand lexicon because we had heard it so often. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth would use a tool called
Marama Davidson has acknowledged she got it wrong by including the word “white” in her statement about violent men which made her appear racist. This came about because she live streamed a statement after the shenanigans at Albert Park in Auckland saying: “I know violence is caused by white cis
The Greens have had the mat well and truly pulled from under them in the past week by Chippy keeping on the fuel tax rebate, to the chagrin of Jack Tame on Q+A who accused him of adding ten to twenty tons of emissions by his actions. Next to
The Media Party seem to have their hooks into Auckland’s Mayor Wayne Brown over the Noah-type deluge that hit Auckland recently when three months of rain fell in one day. Captain Hook was the pirate character who menaced Peter Pan and the Lost Boys on the Island of Neverland
Sheriff Ardern pushed through the doors of the Karangahake Saloon and let them swing behind her. Through the gloom she saw Grunter at the bar and flumped on a stool beside him. SHERIFF ARDERN: I’ll need a couple of Red-Eyes to get through this one. We got a trouncing
Warning Satire Sheriff Ardern looked through the gloom in the Karangahake Saloon ‘til she spied Marshal Robbo Robertson. She plonked herself on the stool next to him and croaked, “Did you see the polls, I’ve got to get some Red-Eye down me. “What’s with Marshal Luxy Luxon becoming
“Cat Lady” Is a psychological horror game from 2012, which was the second part of a trilogy called “The Devil came through Here”. What happened when the red curtain was pulled back at the United Nations General Assembly recently was the most hypocritical pantomime I’ve ever had the misfortune
The Slide in the Children’s Playground outside parliament actually combusted on March 2, 2022 after what had been a peaceful 23 day protest until Police had moved in. The children’s playground had been a pet project of Trevor Mallard the Speaker of the House who had turned water
It’s ‘Mutiny in the Trenches’ by the pro-Russian separatists of the so-called Donetsk Peoples Republic of Ukraine. A video of the soldiers and their commander from the 113th Rifle Regiment appeared on Telegram saying they were “Putin’s blood sacrifice”; sent to the front lines of Kherson, cold and
