About the author: Brian Mackie
Profile: Writer and businessman who distrusts all politicians and what passes for journalism in New Zealand.
Website: http://www.gog.org.nz/
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There is nothing quite like the careful application of pain to deter young people from inflicting physical suffering upon others. The best result can be expected when well-intentioned and maturely measured punishment is firmly applied in the early years. After ...
New Zealanders have a quaint but misplaced pride in the idea of “make do, and mend”. They call it The Number 8 Fencing Wire Theory. The trouble is that Number 8 fencing wire is hard to find these days. It’s ...
Name a formerly State-owned company, now "privatised", that treats its customers, suppliers and staff with mind-boggling disdain – overcharging the former and intimidating the latter, while trying to do everything on the cheap.
We’re talking about British Airways, whose fabulous Lakeside ...
Experts say that by 2050, the Maori population will have outstripped that of other ethnic groups and this will render Waitangi Treaty disputes irrelevant. Other statistics prove that there will be but one super-fit tribe called the Ngati Khaki, and ...
There are few sights uglier than that of a Scottish lawyer on the make, as Tony Blair showed during his six-hour defence of the indefensible before the Chilcott-led Iraq Inquiry. According to Wikipedia, Edinburgh-born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is descended ...
The only favour that never-elected Green MP Sue Bradford did for New Zealanders (before she spat the dummy and threw the teddy) was to prove beyond doubt that when the Green Party suggests or supports or opposes anything, its stand ...
Over a pint, Rudolph complained: “Just how short can a human bean’s memory span be?” This mortal frailty has allowed all sorts of self-appointed experts to regularly recycle scares ranging from imminent ice ages or guaranteed incineration to warnings that ...
Welcome back home to your warm and familiar grindstone, which probably looks a lot like ours. There are many good reasons for not going on holiday, including the fact that you may offer your employer a relaxing period during which ...
If you laid every politician elected in the last 40 years end-to-end, their combined salaries, pensions and expenses could have paid for Wellington's Transmission Gully route twice over. Now that Transport Minister Steven Joyce has decisively not quite decided when ...
In his latest message to our great nation, maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira says he is merely holding up a mirror to New Zealand society by repeating claims of never-ending rape and pillage by the Pakeha, whom he clearly ...
