Dear Editor Ever heard the story of Emperor Nero burning down Rome? The story goes that he fiddled while it fell to ashes. They say he set it on fire himself. A myth on the fiddling part maybe, but Rome did burn. New Zealand’s government is effectively willfully burning
It is not often I refer to Stuff as a source of integrity but I will make an exception this morning. There is an excellent opinion piece by Damien Grant headed, PM’s abuse of power during lockdown a warning to us all. It is a must-read. I have
It will come as no comfort to Jacinda Ardern that her obfuscations of the last seven days haven’t gone un-noticed and yesterday’s piece by Bryce Edwards on The Democracy Project is a very good pastiche of the obvious holes in her handling of the border problems fall-
On 2 August I wrote an article for the BFD called, ‘Kiwis do not want a jab’. About 30% of New Zealanders said they would not want a COVID-19 vaccination. I also heard from friends who would not accept one either. I wrote in my guest post … New Zealand
What an interesting read Simon Wilson provided in the Weekend Herald. The headline was “Good luck, bad management”. The good luck he talked about was different to our understanding of it but the bad management was pretty much spot on. He talked about the border not being as secure as
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says for the most part Auckland businesses have coped well with the lockdown. How would he know that living in his bubble in Wellington? What about all the Mums and Dads trying to balance life at the moment?
So, Jacinda Ardern tried her hand at turd polishing yesterday. That’s all you can describe her 3pm press conference as, turd polishing. We’re going to lock you down for a bit longer, but it’s good for you. Wink. As the Mythbusters proved, you can polish a turd,
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The worm has finally turned as the government’s avalanche of failures is becoming too large for even the MSM to ignore least they look like complete lapdogs. The 50 Million dollars cash injection from the government can only go so far as the better journalists wrestle with their images
A friend posted this on Facebook the other day. It is from Willie Jackson: Willie Jackson Watching parliament today reminded me that this Government has been clear since this pandemic engulfed us that New Zealander’s must be prepared with masks in case of a second wave and when we
Ashley Bloomfield has once again refused to appear on Q &A but was happy to be seen in Ardern’s latest campaign ad. (His image has since been removed from the Facebook ad, thanks to advocacy from the Act Party and the Taxpayer Union. He increasingly appears to be
