I met a homeless person today. Yes, really. She is in her late 40s, with grown-up children (who do not live with her). She split with her partner a few years ago and has probably about a 10% house deposit saved from the sale of their jointly owned house.
“The polling data was clear and voluminous on this point long before the election. Corbyn is the most unpopular opposition leader since records began. And though we may not like it, we know that voters’ assessment of the party leaders plays a huge part in their decision. Labour knew it
Boris Johnson’s win is a warning to the National Party. Simon Bridges is more like Jeremy Corbyn than he is Boris Johnson. Parties only win when people like their leaders. No one liked Corbyn and no one likes Bridges. To clarify, they may like him as a person and
I’m not a Catholic. I abhor paedophilia. I’m not particularly enamoured of George Pell. Yet, I can’t escape the uneasy feeling that the most egregious miscarriage of justice in Australia since the Chamberlains has been perpetrated in Pell’s case. What’s even more telling is that
General election 2019: Tories on course to win majority – exit poll Exit poll shows Boris Johnson STORMING home: Sensational prediction has Tories winning historic Brexit election with a stonking majority of EIGHTY-SIX and Labour with its worst result for decades as ‘red wall’ crumbles.
deja vu Amidst all the tragedy, suffering and loss of life, from the White Island eruption, Carmen Parahi has seen fit to insist that all place names in New Zealand should revert to their original names, and that includes dropping New Zealand for Aotearoa. Only Stuff would think it appropriate
Greta Thunberg has been named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the title. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7780825/Greta-Thunberg-named-Times-2019-Person-Year.
In a post earlier this week, Jacinda Ardern Powered by Eight-year-olds, I commented on the futility of the latest unnecessary and useless plastics ban proposed by our Prime Minister and the fact that she makes decisions on the trot on the basis of the “many letters” she receives
The conversation starts at 8.10 on the Wednesday 8.00am to 8.15am time slot. It carries on into the 8.15am to 8.30am times slot and a defensive Nash chirps away around the 3.20 mark – followed then by Hosking and Mitchell having good laugh and mocking
Ladies and gentlemen, the 2020 election campaign has officially started, and it will be the longest campaign of your lifetime. After promising to build 100,000 houses (and failing) and promising to build a light rail system in Auckland (and making very little progress to date), the government has announced
Tour guide Paul Kingi dragged more than 20 people off Whakaari/White Island in suffocating conditions. […] Paul got into an inflatable dinghy and made his way back to the erupting island. “He just charged back into that crater and was just pulling people off left right and centre – I think
