It was with a lot of sadness I read on the Weekend Herald on 13 November 2021, about a grieving daughter whose father died a painful death at home 12 days after contracting Covid-19. The father had tried to get medical help but was told from the sources advocated by…
Totally over mask wearing
I’m so doubley-dosed with vaccine.Why do I need to wear a mask?I’m totally sick and tired of all of the government’s COVID-19 rules, and I’m over labour’s nanny state.The worst thought is there’s another two years worth of her hell before I can cast my vote to throw out the…
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
The government’s Three Waters reform is wiffy. Seriously wiffy that not all looks as it seem, sometimes milk masquerades as cream.Phil Goff, current Auckland Mayor, ex-labour party leader and a long term pinko-socialist isn’t towing the party line over the government’s Three Waters reform. I can imagine this is to…
Better data storytelling
There is no such thing as truthThere are only stories. And everyone has their own version. For example, when talking about why the sun rises, over the ages there have been many many different stories people believed to be true.The Greeks and the Aztecs thought the sun to be a…
Living on a completely different housing planet
I wish I could tag-out of New Zealand’s property market. What a mess!Here’s something I recently read from Singapore. Not only did their equivalent of our Reserve Bank governer take personal and professional responsibility for an overpriced housing market, but a sniff of an “overheated” housing market is one where…
Fair pay agreements are bad policy for everyone
As Michael Wood steps into his Delorean to take us Back to the Future with this government’s labour relations agreements, he’s setting New Zealand on a crash course to the worst industrial relations policy New Zealand had to offer from the 1970’s and 1980’s.Here’s something I’ve written previously.
On budgets and band aids..
Lots of writing by the talking heads in the media about the government’s up coming budget.The Word on the Street is summerised nicely by former Nayland College old boy class mate of mine, Bryce Edwards. Writing for that hand-wringingly leftish, rainbow-coloured, de-colonised state broadcaster RNZ, Bryce advises Jacinda and Grant…