Sometimes I wonder if Simon Wilson is deliberately stupid, but then, on reflection, I realise that, no, he actually is as stupid as he seems.
Simon Wilson has gone for the double whammy in writing on US Politics and having a lash out at both John Key and Donald Trump.
When you read his waffly whining you get the distinct impression that not only is he stupid, he’s also the deaf, dumb and blind kid playing, not pinball, but at being a journalist.
I mean, how else can you unravel and explain this nonsense.
Paul Henry played a dumb game and gave a dumb answer. Labour turned it into a full-scale moral panic. One of those is funny. The other is just sad.
Shane Jones is speaking for the forgotten Kiwis who are sick of being lectured and ignored. Luxon can keep bowing to Modi if he likes. The rest of us will watch his poll numbers do the same.
Do not expect any accountability. My prediction is simple. Wayne Brown will brazen it out, bully anyone who dares speak against him and his council will roll over as usual.
We increasingly lack in public life a true sense of honour among those who are meant to serve us, not rule over us. There is nothing sober about a government that allows itself to become deformed through the tendency to tyrannical rule.
When I consider that so many people readily forgo the amazing experience of becoming mothers, I feel incredibly sad. There’s no career on earth that substitutes for it, and it cannot be subsidized by the state.
I’m saying it without my name attached, in a publication built specifically to defend my right to say it with my name attached. If that strikes you as a contradiction, it should.
The traditional classroom can now return under a more modern name. Adaptive enclosed learning environment should do it. That allows schools to install four walls and a door without admitting the basic design was already familiar to everybody’s grandparents.
If competition is coming from every direction, the main supermarket groups are coping with it remarkably well.
