In the Southern District Health Board area, which is basically most of the lower South Island below about Mt Cook, we have had two people die supposedly as a result of contracting this virus. Yes, both old and both with comorbidities. The last person to be confirmed with the disease
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a clamour from retailers for government (you and me) to subsidise their shop rentals. Justice Minister Andrew Little said, “We’ve heard the calls to subsidise rent or to freeze rents. However, both of these approaches would have meant commercial property owners would
Damien Grant is a liquidator. He drives the ambulance to the bottom of the cliff. His latest piece is an interesting view on the economy from a liquidator’s perspective and his further comments provide food for thought for those who think that National is going down in a screaming
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest might be keen as mustard on getting back to business as usual with China and getting those billions in iron ore contracts flowing back into his pockets, but ordinary Australians aren’t quite so keen. Public disquiet has been quietly growing for years, as premium Australian
Many commenters have expressed dismay at the rapid expansion of the socialist state in New Zealand, and the government not wasting a crisis to drive through ideological changes to our economy. Matthew Hooton writes at the NZ Herald: There are early signs of megalomania in the Government’s economic response
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
