Yet another airbus (this one an A310) plunges into the sea. How long will it be before someone other than France (who have a massive investment in Airbus) actually investigate these accidents? The French are in full damage-control mode already, darkly hinting at poor maintenance on behalf of Yemenia, the airline involved. I would feel [...]
Researches has now tracked the path of swine flu in April and May and found that (GASP!) it followed the flight paths out of Mexico. I never would have guessed… Once again, the Australians have announced they have manufactured a swine flu vaccine. I think that’s the third time they’ve announced it this month. But [...]
Line 7 has closed it’s doors and gone into receivership. That is sad, but that is also the way of the business world in a recession – some make it some don’t. Because Line 7 is a well-known brand we now have the inevitable use of the word “iconic” and people begin to make dumb [...]
In an interesting turn about, Professor Michael McMahon of Nuffield Health claims that overweight celebrities are seen as role models, which may help to make being overweight acceptable. Professor McMahon, a expert on keyhole surgery, said: “The increasing profile of larger celebrities, for example James Corden, Eamonn Holmes, Ruth Jones and Beth Ditto, means that [...]
I have noticed this past week that Labour, most of the media and, of course, the left wing blogs seem to be spending their time harping on about the unemployment rate. Invariably they use hard numbers like 1000/week and 45,000 on unemployment benefit, rather than percentages which are peculiarly unimpressive. John Armstrong points out that [...]
And here is yet another study on bottled water that contributes absolutely nothing to the debate on which is better. The actual study can be found here in PDF format. The study itself is really as worthless as the article, although it does point out that the (mind-bogglingly obvious) reason that bottled water is so [...]
If you were wondering why Labour spent so much extra money on Health without actually improving the health of New Zealanders, nor their access to services, puzzle no longer. Ruth Dyson reveals all. She is complaining that some of the health promotions that were dear to Labour’s heart have been cut or seriously curtained. Things [...]
It certainly has been a rough 24 hours for celebrities. Farrah Fawcett died in the early hours of Thursday morning, at age 63, after a long fight with cancer. For those of you too young to remember her, she was best known for her role on Charlies Angels, where she was the darling of adolescent [...]
There is now a site detailing some of the abject failures of the repeal of section 59 at http://yesvote.blogspot.com/. But for an example of how the repeal of section 59 not only does not address the problem of child abuse, it is not even near the same country; there is this lovely couple. Oneroa reached [...]
Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman is crowing about the latest immigration figures which show a substantial decrease in Kiwis leaving the country. There are 34% less New Zealanders leaving for Australia and 26% less leaving for the UK. “Under the Labour government, with its high taxes and disincentives to getting ahead, thousands of our brightest and [...]
