Can't disagree. Hipkins was probably a highly competent Mr Fixit in the last government, but he simply isn't a natural front man or numero uno. Doesn't look the part. Even when the words he speaks are making sense, he still looks like a rabbit caught in ...
Well I say, enjoy buying 'em while you still can, and while the quality is still at current levels. Anyone remember Creamoata? Flogged off to the Aussies, local factory closed, oats no longer necessarily grown here, and pffft! Gone. Watties has appeared at...
And that's why Obtrectatrix and I have nearly always cooked from scratch, using tins and packets as little as possible, and opting for reduced salt and/or sugar wherever possible, even at extra cost. On those rare occasions when we do open a sachet and ...
Isn't that more-or-less exactly why Clare Curran was hounded out of office (and eventually politics)?
" .... looking to retrospective agreement by Otago councils .... " And if they don't get it: "hello Mr Commissioner, good to meet you".
As someone so graphically put it after Trump's election victory: "you s**t the bed, you clean it up".
Curious. My experience was the complete opposite. The Catholic school I attended at the start of my education "was newly-built and full of light and air" but "the teachers clipped the ears of any idle kids" and the headmaster patrolled the aisles at lunch-...
The dog returns to its vomit. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350274670/film-heavyweights-alight-over-lotr-comeback?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3&utm_source=localised_module#cxrecs_s Doubtless we'll get regular progress reports. Wonder how ...
Nearly 40 years ago Lange and Douglas ushered in the ideology that has reined ever since in this country: progressive neoliberalism. I wouldn't load an equal share of the responsibility on to David Lange, although I can't totally absolve him either. ...
I like to think that J R R Tolkien would be horrified at having one of his LOTR names associated with and besmirched by this kind of activity. The idea of having to trademark it to prevent such misuse, or even the need for it, would never have occurred to ...
Isn't it a bit unfair to hang all the responsibility for this state of affairs on one's elected representatives? I don't follow such issues very closely (lack of time), but I get the distinct impression that it's council bureaucrats who make many of the ...
Maybe she should have used a vivid everyday phrase, such as "consigning Maori culture to the rubbish bin", or something equally vigorous which however stops short of implying actual physical destruction of her people. "Deculturation" (I didn't even know ...
That's it indeed. Basically some inappropriate behaviour, but no suggestion whatever of actual moral turpitude. A token penalty and a warning should cover it, to my mind. I checked out Nick's Korero last night. https://nickrockel.substack.com/p/i-could-be-...
Figuring he might as well coin it while he can, I guess.
Coming soon to a motu near you: We pay a lot more for a lot less, and people know it. That’s why Sunak’s Tories were thrashed in these elections https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/rishi-sunak-tories-local-elections-thurrock-tory-...
So, to adopt a somewhat loose medical analogy: "adaptation" means "treat the disease" (preferably holistically); "mitigation" means "treat the symptoms".
Two examples from the top of my head (the document SPC links to is one hell of a wade, most of us won't have the time). Stjepan Radic shot and mortally wounded by a fellow-member in the Yugoslav parliament in 1928 (the king later suspended it and ...
That's why we should dump the current configuration of the House, which only serves to provoke and support this sort of confrontational behaviour. There should be no more "sides", no more monolithic blocs of members all from the same party. And whoever "...
Maybe she should have had someone accompanying her on that visit, as a potential witness. (But going in team-handed can in itself be construed as intimidatory.)
I've looked at the footage. No actual physical contact, it's true, but she did get into his personal space, standing and leaning over at a distance less than the reach of her fully-extended arm. That's too close.
Anyone indulging unnecessarily in that sort of sniping has already lost the argument, in my view. As a reformed corrector myself, I say don't bother doing it, unless it's one of those rare cases where a wrong interpretation could be made, and clarification...
Ren(t) and StinKey.
While on that theme: "so long, and thanks for all the cash".
42 = Clinton; 38 = Ford. Clinton Ford was a UK showbiz personality of days gone by. This seems to me the most fitting selection from his repertoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOj4Lx6g-rY It's fun to think of ol' Simeon strumming on his uke as the ...
First fat cat: "Our waist measurements ...." Second fat cat: " .... in inches!"
A bad bastard all right, but the mutilation part of the sentence is going too far. One has to wonder what law provided for it in the first place. It shouldn't survive the appeals process, surely? (Cruel and unusual punishment ... )
Bang on the money, Bill. I would add to that one of my favourite aphorisms: Mother Nature is the ultimate quartermaster, and she ain't got no secret reserve stores.
Wonder what plum(s) she'll pick up on leaving the House? Maybe an unripe damson or two, but nothing as ripe and succulent as Pullya's, I'll bet.
One of the great weaknesses in our adversarial parliamentary system, is the default 'oppose' stance from the opposition-of-the-day to any legislation introduced by the government-of-the-day. IMO, it's lazy politics, playing to sound-bite journalism. I ...
Reading such chilling nonsense immediately called to mind this short story from long ago (published a few years after Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5pvvx481Q
Is that a word, Joe?
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