Something didn’t seem quite right about the government’s address to the nation on Wednesday. Here we had deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, telling us how the Ministry of Health had asked the government to shut the borders to everyone, including Kiwis. I was surprised to hear him say
Bob Jones, in a recent article on The BFD, had this to say: It’s a sorry scene ahead of us and I say again, by election-time the Jacinda lustre will be replaced by despair and anger with the obvious electoral outcome. I agree wholeheartedly. The backlash has already started.
Justin Knight For anyone too young to remember Y2K, it was a very expensive non-event invented by IT charlatans to scare the world into paying them a significant amount of money to fix precisely nothing. The argument went that when the year 1999 ticked over to 2000, all the computers
Greg Moore It‘s always difficult to remain positive when everything that surrounds you seems to be taken away from under you. Today I am having one of these moments. In the Queenstown southern lakes area where we are, there were 19,345 people on the payroll at last census.
Kathleen Horne COVID-19 has given Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson and their government colleagues the opportunity to take lying, hypocrisy and scapegoating to a whole new level. Let’s examine the case for lying about cash support for businesses via a make-believe court case with a judge interrogating the defendant (the
Making decisions on the trot is never a good way to do anything. Ask any small business owner. They don’t just blindly bumble along adjusting what they do to fit whatever the flavour of the day might be. Even the smallest business venture does cash flow projections and measures
Socialists may be celebrating the economic havoc caused by the Chinese virus, but if anything, it’s highlighting the failures of socialism and the robustness of capitalism. In the first place, this pandemic is entirely the work of a repressive communist regime (I apologise for the tautology). The economic devastation
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Bubble bubble toil and trouble, the witches brew beckonedWe jumped right in and we stayed there to rotAlthough corpses eighty-eight thousand would not be our lotHow fast we did move, how quick we did leapThe government was on it, Covid death we’d not reapThe WHO had us worked up
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Zealand has always been ‘the little engine that could.’ It’s endearing imagery but also powerfully symbolic. But thanks to our leadership and their reckless decision-making now compounded by dogmatic digging-in, we are fast becoming the little engine that couldn’t. Today exactly what
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Labour MP Deborah Russell copped a social media backlash, typical of the mob mentality when in full flight. Deborah is a former philosophy academic. She suggested to a Parliamentary select committee that if only a few weeks out of action caused the demise of
Simon Black Sovereignman.com Nearly seven centuries ago in the mid-1300s, the first major outbreak of the Bubonic Plague forced Europeans into some of the harshest social distancing measures in history. As Boccacio wrote in The Decameron in 1353, the hysteria was so extreme that “brother abandoned brother. . . fathers and
Just before we went into lockdown, I heard how the Department of Health was recruiting retired health workers. Most of these people had allowed their registrations to lapse, but the Health Department was able to deal with that. It seemed that they were able to effect the re-registrations in most
