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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice dismissed is far worseA grave allegation has been made against one of New Zealand’s judges, and naturally – even though it’s hearsay – we’re duty bound to repeat it in the hope that some paid journalist somewhere will do a bit of investigation for a change.
The claim, made during [...]
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 [...]
