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 [...]
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 [...]
Chichester Cathedral - somewhat phallic. Picture by Ian Britton, Freefoto.comThe “man in the street” could be banished in Britain, which invented the term as meaning “the average person”. A report by 21st Century androids employed by Chichester District Council in the UK claims that this popular description is based on an assumption that the world [...]
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 [...]
The Beehive - few workers, plenty of drones. Picture by Grahamp, Dreamstime.com. Front page pic by Chris Howey, Dreamstime.comIn one of the most shameless (and shameful) displays of blatant partiality yet seen in Parliament, Speaker Margaret Wilson plumbed new depths when she ejected ACT leader Rodney Hide from the House.
Her claimed reason for doing so [...]
Russell Fairbrother… we rest our caseNapier’s unelected Labour list MP Russell Fairbrother must be about the only allegedly thinking person in this country who doesn’t know that the election campaign has already begun. It’s been running for weeks, if not months.
So when he spotted billboards promoting National’s Napier MP, Chris Tremain, the lawyer Fairbrother cried [...]
Now we have proof that government in New Zealand does not work, and it came from the mouths of our governors. Despite the obscene amounts of taxation thrown at it, our Labour-misled Government is unable to include a simple referendum question in this year’s election process.
The question, of course, is:
“Should a smack as part of [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
