People who are condemned to live in privately owned leaky homes will not be happy with the Government’s rapid response to the newly revealed problem of convicts living in a leaky prison.
A leaky roof does not a prison make - unless you privately own it. Pictures by Dreamstime.comWhile law-abiding honest victims languish in rotting houses [...]
The Maverick missile: Bang goes another small fortune that could have been spent on healthcare or educationJoin the Navy, for “a life less ordinary”, as that painfully awful TV commercial trumpeted. The slogan had many people pondering its meaning. But if the new naval onslaught now headlined in our newspapers is anything to go by, [...]
Following the $100 fine on a Tawa resident (subsequently waived) for clearing sundry scrap items out of a car and into a council rubbish bin, it would appear that the next slogan to adorn our “Yeah, right” roadside hoardings will be “Be a Tidy Kiwi”.
The public should be told the name of the council wallah [...]
Come here, big boy and get the chopReal Kiwi blokes don’t do proper haircuts. The rate of inflation at the hairdresser since 2003 has dramatically outstripped the rest of the cost of living - and men have responded in a simple, commonsense way. Instead of getting a trim every four weeks, they put it off [...]
Our world… it’s being hijacked by the stupid and gullibleThe Greens have scored a perfect own goal with the title of their follow-up to Al Gore’s one-sided blockbuster movie. They’ve called it “The Age of Stupid”.
They could just as easily have chosen “The Age of Gullible” or “The Age of Politically Opportunist” as [...]
Any hope that Winston Peters can keep Helen Clark afloat is virtually gone, now that we know the Monaco millionaire benefactor to the Winston First Party warned his friend the Prime Minister that he had donated $100,000 to Peters’ legal fund – and that she failed to reveal this until today.
Yesterday, Clark criticised Peters for [...]
It’s sad, when you find a dead cigarette lighter in pristine native bush. Picture: the Studio at Dreamstime.comIt has been revealed that British American Tobacco is quietly sponsoring anti-littering group Keep New Zealand Beautiful to the tune of $300,000.
Naturally, this donation was immediately pounced on and condemned by false do-gooders. Cancer Society chief executive [...]
Anyone likely to be outraged or offended by Auckland’s boring old Boobs on Bikes parade will have no chance of bringing a case against organiser Steve Crow. The event received so much pre-publicity that those of a sensitive nature were reasonably forewarned to keep away.
At least he’s honest…Those who work and pay taxes (and would feel stigmatised by accepting welfare handouts unless their circumstances were extremely dire) have every right to be indignant when beneficiaries cheat the system. So they will be disturbed by the news that convictions for sickness benefit cheating went up by more than 40 percent [...]
Well, we’re blown away! Somebody has just “discovered” that the so-called “smog” in Christchurch doesn’t appear to affect the health of young people. We’ll let these ground-breaking researchers into another secret: it doesn’t affect the health of anyone else either, other than those already suffering from respiratory diseases, because it’s not smog at all.
It’s harmless, [...]
