Xavier T.R Ordinary has been involved in New Zealand politics for over 40 years as a political activist, commentator and strategist. The name Xavier Theodore Reginald Ordinary has been chosen with ton
Fran O’Sullivan points out the rather large elephant sitting in Simon Bridges and the National party’s corner when it comes to infrastructure spending: Simon Bridges must not have heard of the old poker maxim: “If you can’t work out who is being screwed, walk away from the
So Grant Robertson has announced a massive spend up on roads, especially in the north. On top of that, he’s given a sop to the Greens giving them $200m for decarbonisation but $690m for 22km of road to NZ First. Which one matters most? Clearly there is a disconnect
Trevor Mallard shouldn’t be surprised to once again find himself in court facing a defamation action. He gobbed off thinking he was immune from smearing an employee in parliament. What’s worse is that he’s done it without a shred of evidence. Now it’s landed him in
Labour’s year of delivery ended with way more welfare beneficiaries than when it began. Mike Yardley destroys the Prime Minister’s posturing on well being in just one article: As election year dawns, one of the biggest credibility challenges this government faces is their failure to combat some of
Stuart Nash is the Police minister and also the Napier MP. He has overseen an explosion of gang members in his own patch that has meant that the Police have raised the white flag: “They have a new cohort of younger members. I don’t think the older hierarchy are
Shane Jones must be over the target such is the triggered response to his comments at Ratana: At the annual gathering at Ratana pa last Friday, Shane Jones unleashed an unhinged attack on Pania Newton. He referred to Pania as, “a young putiputi (flower)” then doubled down on his diatribe
The Atlantic has a great article about the irrelevance of social media. Mostly it is a cesspit of leftists arguing about who is more woke. It doesn’t matter and Twitter is not the real world. On December 26, a single tweet by a British lawyer with 178,000 followers,
Duncan Garner is brutal about Jacinda Ardern’s “smiling drivel” or her pledge for Labour to be transparent and truthful with election campaigning this year. So the PM wants to be relentlessly positive in a factual campaign run by Facebook’s rules. Pass me a giant sick bag and send
We are seeing a great deal of debate at the moment over teaching brain-washing of students with a climate alarmism curriculum. Chief among the proposals is to have students adopt a vegan diet, all to save the planet. Meat-eating is said to contribute a horrendous negative amount to the perils
Tracey Martin has decided to challenge the views of her leader, Winston Peters, and Shane Jones over the newly announced child brain-washing curriculum. New Zealand First MP Tracey Martin is defending the controversial climate change teaching resource despite her colleagues speaking out against it for telling students to eat less
Two days ago there were headlines all across the media that a deal was imminent for Ihumatao. The Media party were just repeating the words of an Aussie interloper masquerading as a Maori. There was no verification, no confirmation, just idle speculation. As the truck driver from Huntly took back
The Police in Hawkes Bay must have been taking lessons in marching backwards from the French. Their top cop has raised the white flag and said that policing gangs is beyond their means. Her local MP and Police Minister, Stuart Nash, surely must be holding his embarrassed head in his
David Farrar writes about the snub to Israel by our government in failing to send a representative to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. On the 23rd of January (World Holocaust Memorial Day), the Fifth World Holocaust Forum
The National party has gone all conspiracy theory regarding the break-in at their Auckland Regional office. It is quite sad seeing their troll army spreading the conspiracy theory that nefarious political operatives are involved in the nicking of their laptops. What is sadder, is seeing low level back bench government
Shane Jones has signalled to disappointed dry voters amongst National that there is a party that won’t put up with eco-evangelism from Woke Wombles: Outspoken NZ First MP and Minister Shane Jones has launched a scathing attack on climate-change activists who want Kiwis to eat less meat, blasting their
As has been written previously, the change amongst pollsters from preferred Prime Minister ratings to looking at favourability, is starting to seriously hurt Simon Bridges. Both Newshub and YouGov use this methodology and both polls show Simon Bridges plumbing Corbyn-like depths in the favourability stakes. The National Party leader’s
