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The Guardian: Just who let those deplorables vote, anyway?
The Guardian: I don’t just read it so you don’t have to, I also read it because I like to keep myself open to different ideas. The left used to be big on ideas – whether or not most of them were bad – so, who knows? Maybe the Grauniad
Penny Hulse respects & supports kids wagging for nationwide school strike
A bunch of kids decide to wag school but Auckland Councillor Penny Hulse reckons it’s all good. Quote. On the same day as the nationwide schools strike for climate change action, councillor Penny Hulse has announced the council’s Environment and Community Committee will have the declaration put in
The Sunday Roast
Golly gosh, wasn’t it a fun week? Good gracious, it is amazing how some can get so worked up. Gee whiz, a damsel in ‘distress’ that needed some toxic masculinity to ride in on a white charger and rescue her. Gracious sakes, whatever next? Golly me, golly gee, what
What’s sexual harassment and what’s fun and games?
I remember a good few years ago my dad warned me about a local character with a powerful libido. This chap liked to hide in the garden hoping to catch a glimpse, through the bedroom window, of a woman disrobing. If he did, and thought the woman suitably attractive, he’
Gossip from the conference
The National party had their Auckland Regional conference this weekend. Quite a bit of gossip flowed through to the tipline overnight, which is unusual in and of itself. The stand out comments were about the tone-deaf and equally nasty comments by New Zealand’s favourite grandmother, Maggie Barry. During the
How I beat the Black dog
I have long suffered from depression. It is, as has been said, a Black Dog that sits on your shoulder and whispers in your ear. It is sneaky, cunning and always manages to say all the things guaranteed to make you feel hopeless, helpless and horribly alone. I have found
Top Ten posts of the week
This Sunday morning post is to provide you with the links to the top TEN most readposts of the past week so that you can easily catch up on the most interesting and popular posts written by our Whaleoil writers over the past 7 days ( Sunday to Monday). https://www.
It’s not OK to be white
Trade Me has recently started selling T-shirts with the message – “It’s OK to be white” on them. Trade Me are not selling them themselves, of course. A local seller is making the T-shirts available on Trade Me, and apparently they are selling like hot cakes. Enter the New Zealand
Face of the day
ACT leader David Seymour has called accusations of hate speech from a Rotorua councillor to a mayoral candidate “absurd”. Stuff reported on the row between councillor Tania Tapsell and mayoral hopeful Reynold Macpherson, which centres on an online post made by Macpherson on the Facebook page of the Rotorua District
Face of the day
* Dr Keith Wolverson was unable to hear the woman talk because of her niqab * He was working at the walk-in centre at Royal Stoke University in Stoke-on-Trent * The woman said she felt ‘victimised and racially discriminated’ by the doctor * Her husband declared he was making a complaint about the GP’