Today’s outrage culture is bloody disgusting. Thanks to the twisted minds of people seeing evil in every little thing, little girls will no longer be able to enjoy dress ups ever again. Little girls (and grown women for that matter) enjoy dress-ups. I love costume parties, and the more
KiwiSaver has been good for the country and great for its participants. Since its introduction in 2007, it is estimated that funds in KiwiSaver schemes now add up to approximately $57 billion. That is an enormous amount of money locked into investment funds, most of which is going to be
It’s a changing world… and never more so than in the modern era of the media. Newspapers have almost disappeared, and with the fantastic – and cheap – streaming services available nowadays, things have got tough for commercial TV stations. TV1 will be okay of course, because it is propped up
Organisations considering getting the Rainbow tick of approval via Rainbow Tick certification should think twice before applying. Rainbow Tick certification is like the song “Hotel California”: you can sign in but you can never leave. Look at what has happened in New Zealand with Halal certification. All our large meat
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison famously coined the tourism slogan, “Where the bloody hell are you?” Coalition voters, especially small businesses, ought to be asking, “Scott Morrison, what the bloody hell are you thinking?” Morrison’s Liberal party have long been regarded as the party of small business and entrepreneurship.
Countdown seems to be run by Wombles, Muppets and the perpetually woke now. First, they removed plastic bags and forced us all to borrow their plastic baskets to take our groceries to the car. Then they imposed age limits on energy drinks so that customers had to be at least
The government has announced a surplus of $7.5 billion, approximately $4 billion more than predicted. You might be forgiven for thinking such a large understatement means that Phil Twyford’s comments about ‘kids’ in Treasury were justified after all. However, approximately $3.6 billion of the surplus is due
Two pieces of good news in one morning! Could it be possible that there is some thinking going on inside the CoL? The Taxpayers Union has successfully convinced the Government to put a stop to paying the Clintons via their shonky foundations. Hurrah! Not before time and the Nats should
In an attempt to stimulate a flagging economy, Adrian Orr cut the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 50 percentage points in August, with a message to everyone to go out, borrow more money and spend up large. It is unclear why Orr thought a 50 point cut would stimulate the
There is no point in pretending that Jacinda can rein in Shane Jones. She should, of course, but she won’t. She should want to, as he is giving her government an even worse public perception than her own ministers, but there is still nothing that she can do. The
The woman, who Stuff has chosen not to name, approached HeadQuarters in Auckland’s viaduct through Facebook, asking if they serve vegan food. Their response made a mockery of her question. “We can offer you the menu, it’s cardboard, should taste like 97 per cent of vegan food, you
Things are volatile in the world at the moment, but the sky hasn’t fallen in just yet. The Brexit debacle rolls on and on; no one is winning and no one is allowed to go anywhere. Trade sanctions are having an effect, but not disastrously. In many ways, it
Promise: “An economy that is growing and working for all of us”. A huge disconnect exists between this objective and their policies which directly hamper economic growth. Non-delivery: GDP Growth Economic growth is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP, so
