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How I’m being screwed by greedy people obsessed with bums and teats

There’s much current debate about punishing people perceived to be well off by the pathologically envious, but I have a gripe about the potential attacks on rental property owners, given that not all of us own a string of houses ...

What’s black and white, and sometimes red all over?

Here’s a trivia question for our readers: on what part of the road are you, as a pedestrian, at most risk of being killed or injured by a vehicle? Answer: on a pedestrian crossing. The question is skewed, of course, ...

Call not for whom the bell tolls – Give way to them instead!

When, in response to American tourism and its own declining educational standards, Britain finally abandoned more than 1000 years of tradition and dumped its system of pounds, shillings and pence in favour of decimal currency in 1971, one elderly lady ...

A smack in the face for parents, or just a piece of mischief-making?

It seems strange that no one thought of simply leaving Section 59 of the Crimes Act largely intact, and just adding a tighter definition of “reasonable force” so as to exclude the actions of the whip- and baseball bat-wielding nutters ...

The tragedy of One People, increasingly separated by too-loose language

Some years ago, the State of California almost found itself in the paradoxical situation of being required to legalise cannabis and to ban tobacco at the same time. In New Zealand, we face a somewhat different paradox in that efforts ...

I drive, therefore I am

People who drive cars and complain about pedestrians rushing blindly onto crossings should remember that drivers are also often forced to be pedestrians. Like when your partner forces you to go shopping? Pedestrian people who don't want to drive, yet complain ...