Saturday, December 30, 2023

A grotesque irony in the honours list

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I have just sent the following letter to the Wairarapa Times-Age. It will be interesting to see whether they publish it. I would like to poi...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

The gentle whirring of ebikes on the Timber Trail

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A typical scene on the Timber Trail. (Photo: Barnaby Maass) If you look up the acronym oobs, you’ll see that it stands for out-of-band signa...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Peter Bush: one of the greatest of a great generation

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The great Peter Bush, one of the last survivors of a generation of outstanding New Zealand press photographers, has died aged 93. I wrote th...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

A massive gesture of contempt for the voters

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It’s said that great minds think alike. Unfortunately the same is true, by definition, of conformist minds. As an example, take the politica...
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Friday, December 1, 2023

What's behind the media’s low-key treatment of the mosque shootings inquest?

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Has anyone else been struck by the extraordinarily low-key media coverage of the inquest into the Christchurch mosque massacres? Day after...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The media's war on the new government

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We are in an extraordinary situation where the mainstream media are openly at war with an elected government. This has never happened before...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The left-wing media needed a line of attack, and they found one

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The left-wing media pack wasted no time identifying the new government’s weakest point. Seething over an election result that they didn’t li...
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