Will there be a formal investiture or somesuch? Hopefully when Judith heads out to it she goes in the right direction and doesn't incidentally stop off for a quick, casual cup of tea on the way. I'd hate for her to end up in the totally opposite direction,...
Of course it was the museum's to make. And of course political activists swayed' them. What I said originally about fear of violence of one sort or another. It's sort of like when a couple of little kids are walking home from school and half a dozen big 13...
Maybe the first to be perturbed were those who replied to the Museum's some time back survey. According to Duncan Grieve "Of the 500 people surveyed, a tiny minority worried about the views of Harry Potter creator JK Rowling – just two, one more than ...
Who needs the Strait when the Luxon gen has Te Puke?
What do you reckon - we cross pollinate in Winston and David? I mean personal responsibility and all that, we need to be trusted to make the decisions which are best for ourselves. So smoke if you want and drive at the speed you want? Nice day today where ...
It's too late to worry about the greedy Christchurch kid in the High Chair stealing the lolly jar and gleefully pigging into it when his smartarse mate Winnie has got riverless of candy running down his chin as Lady Nicola is telling you how the world is ...
Decisions, decisions. Do you want some doddery old codger who is a shop front who fills a ceremonial role, trying to operate with some notions of doing the best for the masses? Or do you want a different old codger who's a megalomaniac who makes sure that ...
Was a time in Northland when the two words came together as 'Peter Jones' and that was some magic for Northlanders.
Let the Games begin!
Oh, they'll be saying, that it was 'Six months in a Leaky Boat!' Haven't even made it to six days! And the beauty of the triumvirate ringing out "AOTEAROA" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiqBlKnb91A&list=RDcSGpLto1yxU&start_radio=1
One snippet I saw recently was in the discussion about multi languages on traffic signs. Having ‘Kura’ and ‘School’ on the same sign was too much for some, all the confusion and so on. Yep, the education system is failing, our kids are dumb, the modern ...
Police police the results of social policy. The ambulances and staff at the bottom of the cliffs aren't doing what we want and expect them to do? And the best thing is to give them 'Letters of Expectation?'
It's always time to have some common sense applied to policing and crime. And to justice. There's a massive chasm in thinking of how crime and justice issues should be handled. In one hand there are those who believe in principles of restorative justice, ...
Herald headline: 'Mark Mitchell explains why he released letter to Coster." Then, "Police Minister Mark Mitchell has explained to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking why he took the unusual step of releasing a letter of expectations for Police Commissioner Andrew ...
My feeling is it’s all tied up in the fear of (primarily in this case) white people thinking they’re not in charge of the world. The advantages to our society in having people fluent in Te Reo shouldn’t need to be said. Nicola Willis is quoted as wanting ...
What occurred to me on reading the story was the famous 'need to know' justification for information making its way out into the big wide world. You know, like Winston and his National not-mates before the 2017 election. The good thing for him now is there...
The biggest problem Mayor Whanau has is the number of arseholes she has to deal with.
Give what up? His fine example and the tradition? Why?
Tory Whanau had a comfortable win in Wellington and she's a Green. That pissed people off. She fronted with her "I have a drinking problem," which has been turned into, "She is incapable of doing her job because she's a drunkard." They couldn't beat her in...
I sometimes watch US political comment all they way through and was pleased I watched all of 'Orange Jesus: Media still not ready to cover Trump after years of his lies." Comments are pertinent to how our media, and specifically our political media ...
There's been a constant caterwauling about terrible Northland roading in recent years. The fact is that for 70 odd years Northland almost totally elected National MPs. The fact is that the Regional Councils and industry bodies like Federated Farmers in the...
Around the Northland dinner table I sat tonight the most interesting comments I heard were about Cr Shortland and her being beholden to Cr (now Chairman) Crawford.
Maybe standards have dropped because the kids going to school these days are less educable than those of the past. How?Why? Because more of them are coming from homes with dumb dumb parents?. Parents who believe there was no such thing as a pandemic, who ...
It may be a bit early to be talking legacies but let’s talk Winston Peters. Tobacco, cigarettes, smoking, illness, death.
Yeah, let's get rid of Auckland Light Rail and Let’s not Get Wellington Moving. The discussion very recently about congestion tax on Auckland roads points again to the failures of vision and courage in the past. The costs of those are the economic burden ...
We'll have trouble identifying the gangs though because they won't be wearing their patches. And won't be hanging out in groups!
He’s spent years saying there’s too much regulation and he’s going to get rid of it. Too many employed in Ministries like Education. So he’ll get rid of people. And all the necessary regulations around Charter Schools.and accountability checks? Who’s to do...
A radio person in Auckland finished today and gets to have a goodbye in the Herald. Kate Hawkesby comments on the awesome responsibility. "I’ll never forget when the Queen died and my producer just said in my ear, ‘The Queen’s dead’, that was it.It was ...
When I hear strong and stable I recognise the manure that's on the bottom of the stable. I guess you send in the Minister of Racing to clean it up.
It's going to be so exciting in schools. When they've done their cellphone thing for the day what will the the cellphone monitors do? Move onto being the overseers of each teacher to see they're doing their one hour per day on reading, writing, and maths?
"Stop known gang offenders from communicating with one another." Yeah, okay, how's that going to work? That sound so good to the redneck ravers on zb, they'll get all orgasmic at the thought, but how is it to actually work? Ah, I get it, Mark Mitchell's ...
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