Condoleezza Rice: She is head and shoulders above Peters, Clark and our sad studentsCan we please now quietly draw the screens over New Zealand’s pathetic student protest movement? These wimpy, easily led and blatantly lazy kids are just too embarrassing for the older folks who did the hard yards protesting against the Vietnam war, and [...]
The UK Parliament. A place familiar to madmen (Picture by Ian Britton, freefoto.com)Not many people know that it is illegal to die within the precincts of the British Houses of Parliament. The official explanation is that Parliament is a Royal palace. This is an odd law, because it did not stop a series of English [...]
The Bank of England in the City of London, once the territory of robbers. Note the motto! (Picture by Ian Britton, freefoto.com)Loan sharks who prey on the poor in deprived parts of urban New Zealand are generally regarded with fear and loathing. This is slightly unfair because they are only carrying on a tradition that [...]
The Labour-led Government pledges that all New Zealand waters will be “swimmable” within a generation. That is to say, by about 2030.
From this…What they seem to have forgotten is that New Zealand waters (with the exception of places like Nelson’s dreadful Tahunanui Beach, and other sewage-polluted beaches around the country) were almost all swimmable only [...]
Maori… in an uphill struggle against an alien majority languageIn honour of Maori Language Week, we are once again being exhorted to “pronounce Maori names properly”, the point once again being missed that this would be a perfectly fine requirement if we were all speaking Maori at the time; but in an English context, foreign [...]
Britain’s Mallard - Its wind-tunnel-tested, aerodynamic body allowed it to reach speeds of more than 160 kmh. Mallard was in service until 1963, when it was retired, having covered almost 2.4 million km (Picture – Wikipedia)Part of our $1.5 billion-plus train set includes the Railway Workshops, which the Government is promising to re-open – to [...]
The prognosis is not good at Hawke’s Bay DHB - picture by Ben EarwickePeople who don’t believe in democracy have a habit of re-writing history. Stalin and Mao Tse-tung spring immediately to mind. Perhaps that’s why the government-appointed new Hawke’s Bay District Health Board has done something that otherwise defies rational explanation. They’ve taken down [...]
Honest dogs owned by uncontrolled people: Licence the owners, not the animalsThe family and friends of the latest maimed and mutilated 13-year-old victim of a 100-bite attack by a pack of hunting dogs may come to reflect on the Labour-led Government’s mad micro-chip policy. In the meantime, everyone will hope that the teenager will suffer [...]
According to The New Zealand Herald, wealthy Monaco-based Kiwi Owen Glenn donated lots of money to New Zealand First. The newspaper claims to have emails that say this, but Glenn’s PR people seem to know nothing and Winston Peters denies it, says he knows nothing of any such donation(s), and challenges the newspaper’s reporters and [...]
The great English writer Samuel Johnson defined the noble sport of angling as “a hook at one end and a fool at the other.” In New Zealand, we can now redefine the state-of-the-art cellphone user as “a fool at one end and an iPhone at the other.”
Early adopters of new technology are expected to have [...]
