Another missed opportunity The news that Kim and Putin are meeting to discuss military cooperation, underlines the foolishness of abandoning Trump-era policies towards the Hermit Kingdom.Ever the deal-maker, Trump identified Kim as a millennial, totally sick of propping up the catastrophic and unsustainable 'Juche' (self reliance) policies bequeathed to him
A letter to Sir Stephen Tindall “Dear Sir Stephen I am taking the liberty of writing to you at the Tindall Foundation. My reason is that if this letter, which is about a serious matter, was sent ‘C/- The Warehouse’, it would be unlikely to reach you. My concern is about the gender grooming present
A Sri Lankan migrant walked into Westpac... A Sri Lankan migrant walked into Westpac and asked to see a loans officer. Once in the loans office she asked for an overdraft or line of credit. The bank officer then asked if she was a customer of Westpac, to which the young woman stated that she was indeed
Young, ethnic, female, woke and WRONG! Saturday’s Dominion Post carried a front-pager by Frances Chin with the headline 'They're breaching our human rights'. A quick search reveals that Chin is an active writer for Stuff titles and asserts that her ‘opinions are her own’. Her piece was entirely free from references
Michael Neilson needs correction Michael Neilson's, unbalanced article 'Asylum changes horrifying' in the NZ Herald on 29 March, gives a woeful account of Australia's approach to illegal arrivals. As soon as our neighbour announced that 'boat people' would not be allowed onto the Australian mainland to
Some recet letters to the Dominion Post I'm unsure of Joe Bennett's awareness of current affairs. His 'Trump cannot be saved again' (Opinion 22 March), relies on information no more recent than about two months old. He has swallowed the Jan 6 Committee version of 'Insurrection' events and pays
Ardern’s Terrorism Duplicity In September 2017, Jacinda Ardern was sworn in as Prime Minister and Minister responsible for the security services. Like all incoming Cabinet ministers, Ardern was provided with what is referred to as ‘Briefing for the Incoming Minister’. All Cabinet ministers receive these – one for each portfolio. As one might expect,
What Maori thought of learning English It seems that on a daily basis, the Dominion Post takes up the cudgels on behalf disadvantaged Maori. One recent article contained this section: 'The Native Schools Act was introduced in 1867, aiming to assimilate Māori into Pākehā society. “The 1867 Native Schools Act established a system of secular
Wrong! Wrong! Penny Wong! It’s a sure sign that a Leftist government is settling into its work, when it begins lecturing other governments and groups on their sins and omissions. Accordingly, it was of little surprise that in the last week, Penny Wong Australia’s FM, took herself off to the UK to
Look out Paris! It’s a brave journalist that predicts good behaviour from Moroccans in Europe ahead of the Football World Cup final. One journalist that has so predicted, is Lee Keath writing in the Dominion Post today. His ‘sweetness and light’ puff piece about Morocco’s World Cup successes having a ‘unifying
A chip on the roading shoulder A disintegrating asphalt road surface north of Auckland, has been grabbing the news in recent days. It will probably turn out to be a bad batch, because anyone observing the laying of this material shows that it sets very hard after much roller work and as the product cools down.
Vale. Bruno Romanowski It is fitting that the blog I write immediately after the item posted about Miet Wnorowski, is about another refugee - Bruno Romanowski. It is one of those incredible outcomes of world turmoil (WW2), that Bruno and Miet wound up working in the same organisation 12,000 miles away from
Vale: Mieczysŀaw (Miet) and Felicitas (Fe) Wnorowski I met ‘Dr Wnorowski’ (I can think of only one occasion that I used his first name), when we both worked at the NZ Dairy Board. This was in the seventies. I was a junior analyst and although Dr Wnorowski was in the same office, I was never sure of
Abridgement or Censorship? You decide. On 23 November, I wrote this letter to the Dominion Post” ‘Every few years, we hear the tragic tale of four or five teenagers killed in a car crash. If one of them has a licence, it will be a Learner grade, at best. A few months later we read
Put a sock in it Valerie! Some pre-season publicity for Oscar Kightley’s ‘Pacific Brothers and Sisters’ sports programme, is currently appearing on national television. One of the interview ‘teasers’ is a snippet from Dame Valerie Adams. Her words: ‘I participated in a white-dominated sport. I had to learn to play that game’. What? Val, your
Shakespeare. Dom Post this morning I must confess a quiet chuckle when I heard the news that funding for the Winn Shakespeare Festival was being cut.The reason cited, is that Shakespeare depicts monarchical structures inappropriate to modern NZ.I recall when I taught English in China, a distraught, under pressure student knocking on my
Bombings by the number, Fatwahs by the score.. Islam’s slow race to the bottom. However transitory, it is always a pleasure to see a glimmering of understanding of the low esteem Islam has in the West. So it was when I discovered a piece by a Kuwaiti journalist and former university lecturer Su'ad Fahd Al-Mo'ajel Ms Mo’ajel begins her
The One Child Policy: Still crazy after all these years… Since its introduction in 1971, China’s One Child Policy has always been the subject of misinformed reporting in Western media. Certainly there were abuses, but to read local papers one would think that on the stroke of midnight on ‘D Day’ any woman carrying a second child would be
My letter publish in Herald this morning. I am heartily sick of John Carter's rant about faceless Wellington bureaucrats and the Northland lockdown.Throughout the pandemic Northland has shown one of the lowest uptake rates for vaccination - often over 10 percent less than the national average. Northland is touted as an 'underserved community&
Golf as capitalism I have previously noted that in the Stuff/Dominion Post stable, there is a protected species of commentator. Joe Bennett is one such. In a column published on 18 May, he noted that golf is: 'Capitalism in civvy clothes’ and isn’t Bennett in his element! Using golf as
“Tame Iti must respect his ancestors. Tame Iti must respect…” You know what it’s like. Hanging around with nothing to write about and you’d do anything for a juicy racism story. Well, the Dominion Post (Stuff), won’t let you down. A recent piece in that paper (link below) featured Maori activist Tame Iti. Known as much for
'Miles Out' Donna Miles gets it wrong and not for the first time. There is an emerging and worrying trend in the ‘Dominion Post’ which is to give certain Opinion writers carte blanche, as if they are some kind of unimpeachable super class. Even though editorials, opinion pieces, reprints from other newspapers
‘Fit for purpose’. Why the US Electoral College is a device for all seasons. As we near the halfway point in the US Presidential election cycle, it’s time the Left started brushing off its anti-Electoral College rhetoric. Given the disaster of the Biden presidency thus far, it is fairly certain that a Republican candidate will win in 2024. If it’s not Donald
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