I’ve just checked out the listings for the new TV season, and it’s packed with some fantastic home-grown shows! Let’s take a look. TVNZ I was thrilled to learn that TVNZ decided to commission a new series of The Apprentice, because I am one of the show’s biggest fans. The last series was nail-biting stuff,…
Wednesday King John writes to tell me that I have been given additional powers. I am informed that my opponents in the Capital made barely a squeak as additional prerogatives were bestowed upon me. It is pleasing to learn that my enemies have been discomforted and are in utter disarray, and that there is now…
You may not know it, but a debilitating disease is creeping through the country. I’m talking about Conservanomius Deregulitoma, better known as Tory-itis. Efforts to date to arrest the progress of the disease have failed, and control measures put in place by authorities have largely been inadequate. We last had a major outbreak of this…
Labour Party MPs have defended their decision to vote in favour of a controversial new law passed this week. The legislation passed by the government under urgency on Wednesday night requires all welfare beneficiaries to be paraded in town squares throughout the country, where they are to be pelted with rotten food and sprayed with…
Conservative columnist Dr Frank Shizenhausen gets his teeth into the legal aid debate It’s about time they reformed the legal aid system. Lawyers have been sucking the public teat for just too long. And criminals have been using the system to drag out their cases and cause bother to prosecutors. The state has armies of…
John Key today announced the appointment of George Clinton as the new Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, following the shock resignation last week of Sir Peter Gluckman. Mr Key said that the role of Chief Science Advisor was a demanding one, and that the post required someone with both communication skills and a high degree…
The Government is considering all options to end the protest by environmental groups against the oil company Petrobras. The protests have included swimmers blocking the path of Petrobras’ survey ship. Because the protests are taking place outside New Zealand’s 12 mile limit, it is unclear what legal power authorities have to take action. However, officials…
More observations from touring British Conservative MP Sir Giles Fortescue-Snoot. I say the chaps on the West Coast of the South Island are a queer lot. And I don’t mean queer like cousin Bertie (or Bertrice, as he now insists upon being called). No I mean rum, peculiar, curious, singular. I’m certain that a more…
The release of the Labour Party list has been met with scorn and derision by political commentators, bloggers and newspaper editors. The full list of 70 was released over the weekend, but it has drawn an immediately negative response. The first 30 on the list are: Jesus Christ Elizabeth I Alexander the Great Jane Austen…
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