Quintili Vare, legiones redde! The news that the All Whites have drawn a “relatively easy” pool in next year’s World Cup will be a great relief to their coach Ricki Herbert. His relief must be similar to the relief felt by Roman proconsul Marcus Licinius Crassus in 53 BC as his legions faced the Parthian…
When I found out I was going to be the Herald on Sunday’s blogger of the week, I was naturally elated. I couldn’t help but dream of the fame and vast riches that would come my way as a result of the media attention. I sometimes imagine myself as the Susan Boyle of the blogosphere.…
The 2025 Taskforce today issued a revised version of last week’s report, after the original report was widely panned. The Taskforce was established as part of the National-Act support agreement following last year’s election. The Taskforce’s purpose is to recommend ways in which New Zealand can close the income gap with Australia. Taskforce head Don…
We’ve all been worrying about how far behind Australia we are slipping economically. And the 2025 Taskforce’s recommendations, if implemented, would see us fall further behind. So are we doomed? Not at all! Because there’s one industry where we’re world leaders. And our prospects for growth are phenomenal. It turns out we are master spammers (okay…
This is outrageous PC nonsense: Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand will give its support to change royal succession law that bans first-born daughters from ascending the throne and another law that bans Catholics from marrying into the royal family. Papists!? Doesn’t anyone remember the Gunpowder Plot? The Babington Plot? Bloody Mary? The Jesuits?…
This Saturday you can make a difference. Join the March for Democracy. Don’t let those clowns in Wellington tell you your vote doesn’t matter. I won’t be there to support all those hundreds (perhaps thousands) of heroes, but I want to do my bit. So I’ve created some banners for y’all to copy, enlarge and…
It’s Melbourne Cup day today. But here’s something to ponder as you consider which horse to put a bet on, or which fancy hat to wear on the big occasion. When you support the Melbourne Cup you support the terrorists. You people make me sick.
Beling a blogger is kind of like being a God. I rule here, my word is law, and I will smite (with words) those who transgress. So, for the sake of my personal vanity, it makes sense to formalise this little thing you (my reader) and I have got going on. For that reason I…
I have written before about the Auckland Zoo and how it needs to implement urgent reforms. Sadly nothing appears to have been done. I spent this morning there with my family and I must say how appalled I was by what I saw. It’s clear that years of handouts have made the inhabitants of the…
I’m so pleased George W. Bush has found something to do now he’s no longer overburdened with being the most powerful cretin on the planet. The Times reports: He left office with the US embroiled in two wars, a Great Recession and with his approval rating a toxic 22 per cent. So the next stage…
Imperator Fish 
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