The Orcs’ siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol was paused on 17 May while 265 people surrendered, some of them wounded soldiers. This nearly 82-day stand-off has been compared to the great historical sieges of Troy, Leningrad and the Alamo. But it is suspected the ‘Die Hards’ are
Pope Francis, when addressing the Easter crowds at the Vatican, said it was an ‘Easter of War’. This was not absolutely correct as it is the Catholic’s Easter but not Easter for the 30m Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who were celebrating Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Worshippers held
Aleksandr Dugin, a neo-Nazi intellectual mystic, is said to be Putin’s brain and influence behind the Ukrainian invasion. He wears his hair long with a shaggy beard like the infamous Rasputin of a century ago. Dugin argues that Russia should rule from Vladivostok to Dublin. His concept is that
Volodymyr Zelensky with his pithy one-liners seems to be more Bruce Willis than Bruce Willis from the Die Hard films. When asked by Biden if he wanted to escape from Ukraine, his comment was, “I don’t need a lift, I need some weapons.” Bruce Willis played the part of
If Siouxsie Wiles’s cheeks are not flaming red by now after being caught out in another lie her name is not “Pinko”. “Pinko” has gone from being New Zealander of the Year to Liar of the Year. The Media Council has unanimously found that a column in Stuff by
The Red Queen has finally fallen off her high horse due to a High Court decision on Friday 25 February 2022. Justice Francis Cooke brought his gavel down hard on the Prime Minister, saying the government had made “unjustified incursions” on the rights of 164 members of the Police and
The Red Queen stared truculently out of the palace window. The trucks were still there even after she ordered the Palace Guard to remove them. The Red King in Canada is having the same trouble. Though now he is arresting the truckers and confiscating their gold. He has threatened to
Information Opinion The Red Queen had been imitating the “Pied Piper of Hamelin” by banning the RATs (Rapid Antigen Tests) from New Zealand for ordinary people even though these are readily available in other OECD countries. Singapore actually gives out free RAT kits containing 30 tests at a time. The
Yip, yip, it’s happening – from January 15th Covid 19-Omicron vaccinations are available to 5-11-year-old children, despite several worldwide warnings against children being vaccinated. The Red Queen is ploughing ahead despite the inventor of the mRNA vaccine Dr. Robert Malone M.D. M.S. saying he is against vaccination for
The Red Queen is seeing Red at Christmas Time, but it’s not Red Santa. He won’t be able to get in from the North Pole till well after December 25th when the whole event is over. A bit like the one million Kiwis overseas who can’t get
The Red Queen is trying to wipe the Bishop off the chessboard. This is the third time she has checked him for allegedly breaking the Covid 19, Public Health Response Act. Bishop Brian Tamaki and his wife Hannah had been at a gathering in the Domain last Saturday with about
The Red Queen can barely show her face around the country without hecklers and demonstrators showing up, as evidenced in the last few days in Northland and Whanganui. The third appearance of the PM was a non-event due to this opposition. “Hear ye! Hear ye all! The Red Queen is
Left: The BFD. Photoshopped image credit Boondecker Right: Cruella. Cartoon credit geodon. The BFD. Cruella De Vil appears in Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel “101 Dalmatians”. The name was actually a pun on the words Cruel and Devil. If the name fits wear it. The book was made into a
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” These words were said in anger by Henry II at his castle in Normandy in 1170 about his friend Thomas Beckett, who had been Chancellor but was now Archbishop of Canterbury. Four knights crossed the channel and dispatched the ‘turbulent priest’
The Red Queen featured in worldwide news last Monday when The New York Times reported that Ardern had finally ‘Given up the Ghost’ on her ‘Elimination Strategy’ for Covid 19. Similar reports appeared in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The ‘Fairy Princess’ had to leave the ball early or
The Princess seems to have lost her sparkle lately, so much so that Claire Trevett of the NZ Herald is speculating she could do a ‘Key’ and resign in office. Even the Emmerson cartoon focuses on who could fit into her shoes. Labour don’t want the next ‘Carousel’ of
