John Campbell and Jenny-May Clarkson in comparison with Indira Stewart are tough, but, surprisingly, show sensitivity and tolerance toward Collins’ opinions. I can’t believe I am saying that breathy, excitable, ponderous John Campbell has some qualities to be extolled. It takes a stark comparison (like, say, the difference between
Nervous Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says he “has never been more prepared” for Hurricane Ida, with some $14 billion of Federal funds spent strengthening levees, since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when almost 2,000 people lost their lives. The same can’t be said for New Zealand’s Prime
The epidemic response committee set up during lockdown last year and chaired by National’s (then) leader Simon Bridges had much more power than Parliament’s Q & A led by Speaker Trevor Mallard, and ministers and public servants were petrified of having to front. The reason being they actually
The shambolic result of not planning for another level 4 lockdown by this government is not pretty. And to add insult to injury our performing seal, aka Dear Leader, on a whim, announced that children 12-15 can go with their parents, UNBOOKED, for a vaccination! She cannot bear to be
Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’. Jacinda Ardern says, ‘Let them use nasal swabs, saliva testing is for cowards’. As this progressive government shows it’s really regressive in practice the people line up for the torture test like good little lemmings. Sir Brian Roche said in a report
Oxford-educated, former police prosecutor Simon Bridges has always been thorough when perusing proposed legislation. As National’s justice spokesperson he has been all over the banning conversion therapy bill like a rash and found it wanting. Attorney General David Parker? Not so much. Using the media’s usual ridicule approach,
If John Key ‘bleeds blue’ it was a purple shade at the National Party Conference. The age of chivalry seemed to be dead after Key’s ‘Yeah, Nah’ type response when asked his views on the leader by a media itching to discredit Judith. They were not disappointed. Given the
You know something’s up when the media obsess over the government’s obsession with the word ‘Aotearoa’. Judith and her (once invisible) MP, Kaikoura’s Stuart Smith caused a stir by cleverly questioning the use of the word ‘Aotearoa’ in government documents and the media and demanding a referendum.
David Seymour is “wrong, wrong, wrong”, to quote Tova O’Brien. His (unconscious?) fear of being politically incorrect condemns him to throw a bone to the PM before criticising her. The left-wing media, radical identity groups and the current socialist government have such an iron grip on NZ society that
No wonder we are not “best in show” for vaccine rollout (to use Professor Des Gorman’s description of our government’s posturing tendencies). Being at the bottom of the OECD list is nothing to write home about. I lean towards Derek Cheng’s option of “shambles”. I know from
There is a disconnect between our government’s lobbying for a trade agreement with the UK and the EU and failing to foster an environment in New Zealand for increased commerce and trade post-Covid, so that we have the products and services available to sell in these markets. A freeze
You know when Andrew Little is feeling trapped by a more superior mind than his when he lashes out, makes personal attacks and gets red-faced to deflect from the issues at hand. That had been his modus operandi throughout Labour’s first term when (now retiring) National MP Nick Smith,
Commentator Matthew Tukaki aims to fool all of the people all of the time, but dig a bit deeper and Tukaki still thinks racial equality is racist. Yes, the listener was right, Matthew Tukaki “did a number” on Peter Williams as he interviewed him on his morning radio show. Williams
As a loyal foot soldier of CNN, the NZ Herald continues to print unresearched nonsense about the Trump family who continue to live rent-free in the NZ Herald editor’s head. How much more of this garbage dressed up as fact should we tolerate? Now, apparently, both Ivanka and Trump
Wendy Geus Judith really set the cat among the pigeons this week when she opposed the separatist health policy proposed by the government, culminating in her well-received keynote speech on Saturday. Good on her: race-based policy is a bad idea. Newshub’s inflammatory response: ‘Judith Collins has hit the big
Labour, when in opposition, along with National’s coalition partners, voted against efforts by the National Party to reform the RMA, and also prevented new major housing developments which by now could be home to thousands of people. This was due to their inherent hatred of anything National suggested, even
