Duke and Duchess of Suffolk new California Residence attracts global Media to High Court case in South Seas Proceedings in the High Court of New Zealand between the representatives of a prominent Russian businessman resident in California and a Wellington legal publisher have caused what is being seen as a benchmark in the ability of journalists to protect the sources of their stories. The burden of the case is that the Wellington publisher and journalist John Bowie has been ordered to pay substantial costs to the plaintiff’s representatives in New Zealand There are several firms in New Zealand which have…

Glasgow Extravaganza Tempts Climate Zealots to make ruinous pledges to United Nations Politicians and their entourages converging on Glasgow for Cop26 threaten to pile additional economic handicaps on their countries as they showily compete with each other in displays of climate warming zealotry. United Nations which is staging Cop26 will be the main beneficiary just because it diverts attention away from its own failure in regard to the real crisis, the pandemic, which it failed to intercept and then stonewalled in determining its origin. Europe is facing an energy shortage due low fuel stockpiles following last winter, which was colder…

Retrofitting French Atomic Subs was a customisation too far The new AUKUS military alliance concludes the most bizarre construction deal in modern military procurement, the one for Australia to retro re-equip French nuclear submarines with diesel engines. The compromise was itself powered by the most high minded of moral objectives blended with the most practical of political imperatives. The moral objective was to protect Australia from anything nuclear. The political one was old fashioned electioneering based on keeping jobs there too. What a difference a few years make. Five in the case of the backwardly compatible subs. In 2016 the…

National Leader Caustic comments on Covid Clinicians cracked media indifference Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles presented Judith Collins with one of the very few high value targets available to the leader of the Opposition. Mrs Collins let fly with her “big fat hypocrite” missile after someone dobbed in the New Zealander of the Year for being away from home at the beach. And not wearing a mask. Judith Collins targeted Dr Siouxsie Wiles (https://www.mscnewswire.co.nz/page2/item/19280-phillida-perry-s-siouxsie-the-virus-documents-dr-wiles-catching-mass-resentment-for-covid-containment.html) only a few weeks after taking a swipe at Dr Ashley Bloomfield the nation’s director general of health. Mrs Collins lashed out at the duo because strange…

Key officials distance themselves from assumption-laden project lacking surprise, deception, contingency The Kabul evacuation shows hallmarks of a very large scale endeavour that veered sharply onto an unanticipated course. The most obvious sign is that nobody wants to be responsible for it, or own it. This was demonstrated by key people being on holiday at the time. This distancing from a dodgy project was also evident in the absence of any geographical central point of control such as a situation room. A common factor in all very large scale debacles is that of the creeping assumption. There is growing evidence…

It was Only Concussion diagnosis dogs brutal nation building team sport Like a storm cloud gathering over a grandstand long dated football injuries liability looms over the professional contact sport. Professional personal injury sports liability is the last taboo. It is literally too painful to contemplate. This threatening cloud began in the United Kingdom with a group claim on behalf of 40 retired professional football, soccer version, players all said to be victims of early onset dementia, suddenly turned ominous also in the football, rugby version. It emerged that well over 100 former professional rugby players were going down the…

Islamists understood that professed horror of imperialism was priority among posturing virtue influencers The Taliban understood the total preoccupation of United States influencers with their need to exhibit a revulsion for colonialism and imperialism. The Taliban knew that given this constantly-expressed righteousness they would be believed in any undertakings they gave over the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. They knew that the political class requirement to display at any opportunity at all this contempt for a colonial past outweighed other contemporary human rights attitudes, most notably even those centred on women, and especially their education. It was hardly even a…

Winston Churchill Cancelled in big chill-induced doctrinal diversions The iron grip that United Nations has on the body politic became evident in the aftermath of the coldest day in New Zealand’s year during which there were widespread power failures, outages. These were caused by power shortages. But attention instead was focussed on the IPCC report centred on global warming. The government’s own broadcasting channel TV 1 sidelined both the coldest day and the ensuing power cuts to give a triumphant priority to the IPCC report on global warming. In the ensuing debate in the nation’s parliament politicians of all stripe…

Te Aute spirit of excellence through individualism swamped in Reverse Discrimination policies A political emphasis on retribalizing now focuses on New Zealand’s gangs in a country with more enrolled gang members than members of its military. The nation’s gangs are accorded immense social license and are handled with velvet gloves by officialdom. Yet it wasn’t always like that. The problem was originally foreseen as long ago as 1854. Te Aute College (pictured in early days) opened that year with the express purpose of ensuring that there would always be in existence a Maori professional class comprised of medical doctors, lawyers,…

Royal Embodiment of Opposing Cults is a Dilemma for Commonwealth Commentariat In the person of Prince Charles resides for activists the opposing poles of their group ideology. He towers over the climate movement. He is the beacon of inherited white privilege. Prince Charles actively took up the umbrella cause of climate long before most progressives realised that it was even a cause in the first place. This conflict becomes visually evident in public television. Here the words “climate change” are rendered with a look of pious pleading. A few segments later Prince Charles’ name pops up and is accompanied by…

Vanity Fair, The Spectator, L’Express cover New Zealand pandemic initiative shunned by local politico-media class. A scientific collective with roots in New Zealand and which anticipated the official whitewashing of the origins of the Covid-19 virus is being deliberately ignored by the politico-media establishment here. The purpose of this scientific collaboration is described by one of its participants Paris-based geneticist Virginie Courtier as being straightforward. “There are unanswered questions,” she says “and a few human beings know the answer.” Point man for the world-wide multidisciplinary movement is Auckland-based Gilles Demaneuf (pictured). He is co-founder of DRASTIC. The group came into…