I see Paul Henry is in trouble again. This time over suggesting that foreign doctors aren’t as good as those trained in New Zealand. I suspect he makes stupid comments like this deliberately, because he knows they are good for ratings. As a foreign-trained doctor myself, I find it hard to take offense at Henry’s [...]

Any comment by Len Brown on the use of taxpayer money has to be treated with a great deal of reserve. However, you would have thought that the man could perform some elementary arithmetic when it came to rates. Instead, Mr. Brown accuses John Banks of keeping rates down by supplementing Auckland City’s income with [...]

The CTU are running a series of videos on YouTube featuring young workers who have been dismissed under the 90-day probation legislation. The first caused a bit of a furor in that the young lady featured was also a Labour party activist. She is certainly an articulate young woman. I note that at no time [...]

There is a bizarre story in the Herald today about a woman who is apparently starving to death on her benefit because it is not enough? I say bizarre, because, unlike the “journalist” responsible for this article, I can do arithmetic. Firstly, the reason given for this lady to be in such dire straits is: [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article This piece of ecological spam even comes with pictures! Volcano collapse underlines threat of tsunami A huge undersea volcano not far from the coast has dramatically reduced in size after partly collapsing more than 100 metres toward the ocean [...]

I thought I might start a new series today, partly inspired by Labour’s release of yet another taxpayer-funded pile of nonsense and partly by Pete Hodgson’s series of posts aptly named “Silly Ideas” (Apt because his posts are indeed very silly…). Since Labour and their left-wing blogging friends seem always ready to misinform, I thought [...]

Dear Mr. Ryall I hear you are occasionally dropping in to emergency departments unannounced and talking to patients. This is excellent news. Under no circumstances should you continue to sound defensive about this in any way. After all, exactly who is the hospital service for, if not the patients accessing it? How can it be [...]

Apparently, Hone Harawira thinks I am a “boorish redneck”. I have no particular objection to Mr. Harawira’s opinion, partly because I am supremely indifferent to it and partly because I make it no secret that I consider him an ill-mannered racist trougher. So we are possibly even. Maybe. Harawira reminds me of an old Afrikaaner [...]

Yesterday’s Herald contained a sad story about a young man who had been seen by the local mental health team, diagnosed him as potentially psychotic and prescribed an anti-psychotic. His counsellor later told him to stop taking the anti-psychotic and continue with counseling. He subsequently committed suicide. A young man committed suicide after his counsellor [...]

Dear Mr. Sharples I judge from your recent remarks that you are not aware of the definition of the word racist. In the interests of helping you understand your colleague Hone Harawira, I thought I might help you out: racism Pronunciation:/ˈreɪsɪz(ə)m/ noun [mass noun] the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or [...]