Few are born equal. And if you manage to stand on your feet, there will always be others who would like to put you on your knees and in your place. Few are better positioned to influence this than your elected Government.
It is not a new phenomenon. First, a little history:
Back in 1793, the French [...]
For listeners to Radio New Zealand National (and doesn’t the doubly inverted, oxymoronic title really brass you off?) the Summer should last forever. Because that’s when our wonderful and eclectic National Radio really comes into its own.
For 11 months of the year, Radio New Zealand National (working in cahoots with politicians and other people who [...]
Farewell and good riddance to 2007, when politicians broke many of their own laws, rewrote others to wipe out past offences, but occasionally got caught and convicted, too. Farewell to a year of widespread silliness, where hardly a day passed without some new travesty or foul-up for us to complain about. Long may this stupidity [...]
Sea levels have risen about 130 metres in the past 18,000 years - from five to 15 centimetres a century for the past 5,000 years or so. Can anyone explain to us here at GoG why the continuation of this pattern should be cause for sudden alarm?
The flooding of the Black Sea by rising waters [...]
The New Zealand press is probably the most supine, fragmented, dysfunctional, under-funded, and all-round worst in the world. It poses no threat to Labour, National or even anyone who’d dare to write a letter to the Editor.
PM Helen Clark isn’t too impressed either, and she fired some admirably accurate shots when she addressed journalist trainers [...]
… but this time, they’re courtesy of the Jobsworths who “work” down at the council offices.
Open fires and woodburners will be banned in Hawke’s Bay before too long, as they already have been in Christchurch. People who spent thousands on installing systems that are more efficient than open fires (and provide valuable potash and other [...]
In view of the continuing series of prison escapes and other various cock-ups, we would like to apologise to law-abiding people, on behalf of the Department of Corrections.
That’s because there’s no one available at the department this weekend to take responsibility. Some of the clients are getting a bit of fresh air, as well…
One of [...]
How generous of Winston Peters to donate $158,000 to Starship hospital. And how sensible Starship was to send the money back, along with a sharp rebuke.
Now Peters, whose arrogance knows no end and whose tact has no beginning, is looking for another charity on which to dump the “donation”. He has some major problems.
First, [...]
We all know that hardly anything ever happens in New Zealand, apart from daily political cock-ups and random acts of violence in Parliament and on the streets. Monday is always a bad news day, because politicians take the weekend off to recover from the previous week’s bruising catastrophes.
This might explain the Monday morning release [...]
… please turn off the lights, so we can become carbon-neutral by not being here.
When the next phase of Australian tax cuts kicks in, a New Zealand worker on $46,000 will be paying twice as much income tax as he or she would on the equivalent salary in Australia. So says a report from the [...]
