Kerre Woodham has declared that the swine flu pandemic is hogwash. I think it’s about time we listened more to these bastions of common sense, rather than those so-called expert white-coated medical-type personages. I am so relieved at the news of Kerre’s edict that I’ve booked a flight to Mexico tomorrow to attend the Tijuana…

Police yesterday apprehended a rogue tradesman who is alleged to have defrauded a number of people from a small community. Police last night named the man as Aleksander Borowski. He is believed to be from Poland, and in this country on an expired work visa. Borowski is accused of fraudulently taking money from the residents…

Dear Chris This is hard to write. I’m no good with feelings, and this letter has taken everything out of me. But, Chris, there’s something we need to talk about. It’s been gnawing at me for a while now, but until this morning it was just something buried in the back of my mind. You…

The jury is still out, and already some people who should know better have decided it’s time to cast their own judgment. What is the key “take home” of all of this? It is that the sooner we abolish trial by jury and just shoot anyone who annoys us the better.

New Zealand has been judged the most peaceful nation in the world by the Institute for Economics and Peace. The full rankings can be found here. We have taken the top spot from Iceland. So that’s yet another statistic to prove we’re just like Iceland. Great. The Australian think tank (whose existence I’d never heard…

Police last night arrested a man in his late sixties after a series of incidents in central Auckland. Officers were called to an address on Albert Street after reports of an elderly man attacking cyclists. Student Tanya Molineux, 18, was cycling down Albert Street just after 5pm last night. “This crazy wild-eyed guy just came…

Fugitive Osama bin Laden was brazen to the end of his long run from the law, says the farmer who sparked his capture. bin Laden, 52, who had been on the run since 2001, was arrested about 1am yesterday after farmer Azam Dadfar reported a disturbance at his dairy farm near Kandahar. Police caught bin…

In shocking news announced today, it has been revealed that Canada’s Governor General ate raw seal’s heart. Governor General Michaelle Jean ate a piece of seal’s heart during an Inuit festival. She apparently said “It’s like sushi. … and it’s very rich in protein.”Her office denied rumours she also asked Inuit elders if she could…

Anyone who witnessed that brazen assault on a defenceless lamington by the large head of ACT MP John Boscawen, would have been sickened by what they saw. For too long now we as a society have been content to let this kind of abuse go on. This abuse has reached pandemic levels, so much so…

Dear staff members The upcoming visit by Standard and Poor’s is a potential turning point in the fortunes of this organisation. It affords us an ideal opportunity to implement urgent structural change. A credit rating downgrade at this difficult time would be a catastrophe for us. We must do everything we can to avoid one.…