Author: Martyn Bradbury

So what the bloody hell happened ?

Isn’t it funny how we on the Left go on and on and on and on about how violent and counter productive prison is yet the moment it’s an issue we feel passionate about, like Gay Conversion, we suddenly get all Caligula revenge fantasy on it.

It’s like Judith just help herself and twists the knife out of spite and malice.

Aotearoa burns while the woke fiddle.

This is a bewildering self mutilation on behalf of Labour that will bleed political capital. This is why they needed Winston.

If we want the State to lie about mass surveillance, dirty politics or ponytail pulling you’re on speed dial.

That the National Grid fell over last night should be leading the news , that Megan Woods is in charge should terrify.

The fear was always that Covid gets into NZ via a means that us so gloriously incompetent that the voters turn violently on the Government, that moment looks like now.

The grace, skill, determination and mastery of the Games in all its facets is a thing of beauty and allows us to briefly see peaceful human competition and collaboration with no higher horizon than the best is probably us as a species at our greatest.