Hark! What is that strange disembodied twittering that I hear? Is it a ghost? A telephone answering machine? a vague afterthought? Yes! It’s all three ! It’s the Invisible Phil… Once again, Phil abandons invisibility in order to utter an inanity. It’s rather like watching a Klingon Bird of Prey on Star Trek, de-cloaking and [...]
Fancy an emetic? The Herald is running a series of articles on child abuse today. Here is a nauseating recitation from a single article: An average of eight children are killed each year, and many more end up battered in hospital at the hands of family members. Children under two are especially vulnerable; each year 59 [...]
Paula Bennett has turned her attention to invalid beneficiaries. In a carefully worded statement, she says: “This Government will support those that cannot work. “I just want to be clear that this is not a blanket 85,000 people having to walk through the doors of Work and Income in the first month or something,” Ms [...]
For those in the blogosphere who are getting excited about the fact that Paula Bennett has had a complaint lodged against her with the privacy commissioner, let me remind you of a salient fact. The Privacy Commission is a toothless dog. It’s prime function is to waste endless hours compiling documents in defense of a [...]
Such an interesting range of reactions in the blogosphere to Paula Bennett’s revealing of the amount of benefit the two ladies who features the the Herald over the weekend are receiving. Natasha Fuller and Jennifer Johnston appear in the article entitled Govt axe destroys dreams, claiming that Bennet’s removal of the allowance for sole parent [...]
It’s the story that won’t die – or, rather, won’t be allowed to die. For the fourth week in a row the Herald has run the non-story of Paula Bennett’s Daughter’s Partner’s gang-connections. Sorry, I almost broke out laughing as I was typing that. There is a scene in the Mel Brook’s sci-fi send up [...]
I see the Herald on Sunday is continuing down it’s path to tabloid-dom. Apart from the front page looking suspiciously like a woman’s magazine, There is yet another article on page 2 about Paula Bennett’s “Gangster connection” that isn’t. Ms Bennett has released two letter that she wrote to the department of corrections on behalf [...]
I keeping with the old adage in the title, it seems that the Herald on Sunday has finally completed the transition it started when it changed it’s format to tabloid a few years back. With a front page news headline “Minister’s life with gang thug“, it has become a certified gutter tabloid. The online version [...]
And for all of us who were wondering why John Key saw fit to promote an inexperienced single-term MP to the complex portfolio of Social Development, now we have the answer. It was not because she is Maori – and Key wanted a more “inclusive” government. It was not because she is a single mom [...]
