It’s like watching a disaster in slow-motion. A man who raped an Invercargill woman has been allowed to move in next door to his victim, and a legal expert says there’s nothing police can do about. Craig James Crofts, 48, was jailed for four years in 2004 after admitting he raped the woman, and last [...]

I am informed by my good friend ScrubOne that the pro-abortion lobby is planning to “hijack” World Health day with a blogswarm (profusion of posts on the same topic) using the topic “Abortion: It’s a Health Issue Not A Crime”. There is a move afoot to counter this with a blogswarm using “Abortion is NOT [...]

The practice I work at is responsible for the health of the kids who go through the “Fresh Start” camps – John Key’s boot camps for young offenders. I say this at the beginning of this post as a declaration that I have a small financial interest in these camps. Don’t let that fool you [...]

The only thing that saves the stupid headline below from joining my Spam Journalism collection is the fact that the article it heads is not trivial: Govt’s tough line on violence isn’t working – police Police say the Government’s policies to reduce violent crime have had little effect, as such offending is still on the [...]

Now there is a turn-up for the books – A white South African applying for and being granted refugee status in Canada, because he is persecuted in South Africa. As an ex-South African, I’m a little “iffy” on this one. Though I think it more than possible that the South African government has and will [...]

There has been quite a lot of media and blogosphere reaction to Chief Justice Sian Elias’ speech, most of it in reaction to her final comment about considering executive amnesty for certain criminals, in order to reduce prison numbers. ZenTiger at NZ Conservative has been particularly vociferous in condemning the remarks. Having now taken the [...]