Pushing the boundaries
The lolly scramble of who moves in with who has started. With a government-imposed deadline that is almost too hard to meet and, regardless of personal or district choice local body, reformation is a gamble….
The lolly scramble of who moves in with who has started. With a government-imposed deadline that is almost too hard to meet and, regardless of personal or district choice local body, reformation is a gamble….
In the late 1980s the (then) Labour government instructed the Local Government Commission to review the make-up of no less than 850 scattered territorial and single-purpose elected board (remember Rabbit Boards?). The chair of the…
The annual agri-pilgrimage is upon us again this week, to a Fieldays with notable changes, improvements and a full house. Full in the sense that every one of the 1300 pristine green sites are booked…
As I look out of my window this lovely Sunday morning I marvel at the myriad colours before me. Many of them from golden and red to brown leaves now settled on the ground had…
The weekend that has just passed by marks the start of the six-month run up to the nation’s next chance to populate the green leather seats next door to the aptly named Beehive. During that…
In 1976 Prime Minister Robert Muldoon responded to a taunt which queried the professional capabilities of his accounting business. His response to that taunt thrown, at him by popular Labour MP Colin Moyle, was to…
As I look out of my office window pondering our good fortune the much-needed rain gently falls onto the barren earth. This without the much-trumpeted ex-cyclone – now downgraded to a tropical storm. The spiralling…
Dichotomy. A word derived from 16th century modern Latin but harks back to the Greek dikhotomia (thanks, Concise Oxford). So why am I lurching out this week with a Greek/Latin based word which is linked…
Ten days ago, the majority of this country’s residents had not heard about a narrow historical waterway known as the Straits of Hormuz. And why should they? How many Gulf states people know about the…
I spent the majority of Sunday returning from a lovely holiday and arrived home to find the world has gone mad. Messrs Netanyahu and Trump have, in a very careful order, pressed the ‘send’ button…
