Much twaddle has been written about the tragedy of the death of Dalu Mncube, mauled to death by the white tiger, Abu, at Zion Wildlife Gardens. The Editor of the HoS is no exception to this, opining that this is what wild animals do. 
Lets get one thing right here, wild animals rarely attack humans and usually [...]

The Editor of the HoS argues today that the policeman who accidentally shot Halatau Naitoko should be tried in court.
This week, the police announced that no one would be charged over the young man’s death. The decision followed “a thorough homicide investigation”, they said, a choice of words intended to signal that it was not an [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. (MacDoctor definition)
I see the Tabloid  on Sunday is continuing its vendetta against Christine Rankin today. This objection is so absurd that I have to place in my spam collection:
Rankin’s attendance worst among councillors
Christine Rankin has the worst attendance record [...]

Treasury now predicts that the Cullen fund will be $37 billion light in a decades time ($22 billion less in payments and $15 billion loss of interest). Idiot at No Right Turn erroneously suggests that this shortfall is somehow National’s fault because they have suspended payments to the Cullen fund. He even has a graph. 
*Sigh*. [...]

It is a truism that Health is a giant black hole that swallows government funding and always wants more. National have added an extra $3 billion dollars to the overall health budget and yet everyone is talking as if they had stripped health to the bone and closed half the hospitals.
The Dominion Post puts out [...]

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who finds Phil Goff’s shrieking about tax cuts being “gone forever” to be pretty nauseating hypocrisy. How can anyone forget nine years of Cullen syphoning off the Nation’s wealth without a single tax cut until he was forced into it as a gigantic election bribe last year? Who has [...]

Bailey Kurariki once again escapes a further jail sentence despite breaking his parole three times and assaulting his girlfriend. This almost absurd forbearance reminds me of the Monty Python sketch about the Spanish Inquisition, only nowhere near as amusing:
Ximinez: Now, old lady — you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works [...]

The only thing in Bill’s budget that seems to be raising any excitement anywhere is the suspension of Cullen fund contributions until the Government is in surplus again. As this looks to be a decade away, this is making Phil Goff very excited indeed. I presume this is because he can stir up masses of [...]

I was asked the other day if I could explain the various political parties in a simply way.After I had finished laughing, I told them politics is like traffic.
We all use it and there are a set of rules called the road code and this is policed by traffic cops.

Anarchists would remove all the rules. [...]

One expects politicians not to be able to see unintended consequences. Sometimes this is deliberate, meaning the politician in question sees the possibility but then willfully ignores it because the thing s/he wants to do is either a) popular or b) accords with his/her ideology. Sometimes, of course, the politician in question is simply stupid. I will [...]