TV REVIEW: The AM Show – God it’s awful
It’s exactly like the Paul Henry Show minus the wit, the pace and Paul Henry. It’s like the mince and cheese pie of morning news.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Naked Muslim hatred in Huntly needs compassion as a response
The mere sight of the headscarf that identified them as Muslim was enough for this torrent of rage and fury to erupt at innocent people just going about their day. This wasn’t the deep South, this wasn’t the hinterlands of nowhere, it’s bloody Huntly, barely an hour outside of Auckland, our largest metropolitan and cosmopolitan city.
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Greg O’Connor becomes Labour’s Ohariu Candidate – Little’s Broadchurch just got Bigger
This is how you win elections. The working class, the poor and migrant communities who bear the brunt of societal crime want to have their genuine fears addressed and a well known cop like O’Connor gives them the sense that their fears are being represented.
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Nothing swells my heart like people who gather to rescue whales
The shocking number of pilot whales that have recently beached in the beautiful Golden Bay is tragic and painful but the desperate attempts to rescue and save as many as they can by the human beings rushing to their aid is as endearingly beautiful as it is tragically comical.
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Cough-cough-hashtag-reasons-Key-jumped-cough-cough
The numerous allegations swirling over why Key really stood down and when they will finally come to light are questions everyone wants answered.
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If our anti-Gay Rights Prime Minister Bill English attends Big Gay Out today will the Community allow themselves to be used?
The question is how much the LGBTQ community are prepared to be used by a Prime Minister who has built his political career on demonising them and denying them basic human rights. He voted against same sex marriage, civil unions, prostitution reform and attempted to force NZ only to accept a definition of heterosexual marriage. Add in the hate he has for women attempting to gain safe and legal abortion and Bill English is a hard right Christian with all the compassion of Donald Trump on a bad hair day.
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Should we rename ‘Labour Youth’ the ‘Purifiers’
…the middle class Labour Youth (The ‘Purifiers’), the middle class Wellington Union Comms cliques and the Identitarians won’t like it, but working class men and urban Maori who have felt alienated by these types see Little staring that faction down and pushing Willie Jacksons candidacy as a new welcome mat into the Party.
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Pro Trump Right Wing Group threaten to attack Indian Students today
It seems sick in the extreme that anyone would take time out of their day to actively mock and denigrate human beings who have been cheated, manipulated and lied, but here they are.
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BLOGWATCH: The Standard can dredge up a 12 year old Willie Jackson interview, but they can’t notice a 2 hour old news story?
This is the great grumpy man of NZ Blogging, Lynn Prentice over at The Standard mauling someone who has disagreed with him about Poto Williams.