Home – to all this madness
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…
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…
In a conversation this morning with a Canadian he revealed that the temperature at his home in Ottawa was minus 27 degrees Celsius. And he was revelling in the balmy plus-33 degrees we are enjoying…
As I write this we are just rolling into the normally balmy month of February. Not to be confused with the other barmy when the antics of February 6 erupt north of Auckland. I say…
The mad period has begun. Those who attempt to exert their influence over our lives are now starting to scramble madly to adjust, alter, deviate or just cancel a number of major projects less their…
As we emerge from the dark side of an amazing lack of (TV driven) news items we tend to look elsewhere for updates on the state of the world. In this modern era, I possibly…
We live under and, and are surrounded by, at least three layers of political governance. Not necessarily in the political party sense of those layers but in their sheer ability to smother the populace with…
The early summer heat of the sun is bringing the people out into the open in Cambridge. Whether locals or visitors, the pavement edges are crammed with angled cars, the cafes are booming and no…
Not too many years ago the (then) New Zealand prime minister told his Australian counterpart at a CHOGM meeting in Melbourne that the westward drift across the Tasman of prospective Australian residents ‘would benefit the…
Arrividerci hustings – I thought we would never get to that point. With the formal swearing in of newly elected representatives we can lurch out into the actions of promissory vote-catching utterances and measure subsequent…
The editor desires to keep me beavering on election-related opinion pieces until the last ballot box has been emptied. Not exactly an exciting gig for an open-minded octogenarian but I shall comply. Firstly, have you…
