Mugabe. The latest manifestation of African evilIan Smith. Now dead, but he was dead rightIf the best our Queen and Commonwealth can do to destroy the ranting, raging and rampaging Robert Mugabe is to take away his knighthood, impose a few travel restrictions, freeze the funds of his leading thugs and generally make life even [...]
Did you know that, to a small group of powerful alien beings, you are an insignificant fragment of something called The Human Capital Agenda?
Australian deputy PM Julia Gillard: Some say she came from Wales. Some say she came from Mars. All we know is that she’s called something unmentionableIt came as quite a shock to [...]
CFL bulb - pretty, isn’t it?It’s all very well to encourage low-energy light bulbs – they have their place. But to contemplate a wholesale ban on old-fashioned incandescent bulbs is one of the dimmest ideas to emerge from low-voltage Labour and the under-powered Greens. They think it will be another shining opportunity for New Zealand [...]
After almost ten years of Labour-led government, what have we to show for it? A bunch of wealthy polluting dairy farmers, an unruly underclass of gangsters, taggers, assorted criminals and hopelessly poor people, and the rest comprised of bewildered and helpless hard-working people. Many of them aren’t workers any more, thanks to a grotesquely overvalued [...]
The saga of Winston Peters and New Zealand First’s dodgy election fund squirming is beginning to unravel. Rather than returning its unlawfully spent election funds to the taxpayer, it now turns out that they sent $10,000 of it to the Cystic Fibrosis Association of New Zealand.
Rightly, the association has returned this dirty money. Theirs is [...]
In the face of rocketing fuel costs that – if they continue rising for much longer – will have very serious consequences for our economy and population, what does our Government do? It announces a futile public inquiry into petrol prices that will take six weeks and cost another small fortune in taxpayer funds. Commerce [...]
Quite why the Labour Party felt it had to rent a picture of a happy family that actually lives in Washington State, USA to promote its vision of a New Zealand paradise is not hard to understand. After all, at the last election, a photograph of Helen Clark appeared on pledge cards (and at least [...]
The founders of the new Really Sensible Sentencing Trust could not have picked a worse time to announce its formation – in a week when an Auckland liquor store owner was callously murdered, and an 80-year-old woman living nearby was brutally beaten up by a home invader, and later died.
That’s not to mention the countless [...]
Congratulations to Transport Minister Harry Duynhoven for finally realising that it is not possible to use a mobile phone while in charge of a moving vehicle without endangering lives. This fact has been painfully clear to other transport ministers in nations where traffic densities are much higher and where a ban on mobile phone use [...]
The airwaves are packed with commercials made by uncreative, overpaid people who persuade silly clients to spend large amounts of money inflicting baffling ads on innocent viewers who just tuned in to see something interesting. Admittedly, some commercials are better than the programmes they separate, but most of them insult our intelligence.
Here are some recent [...]
