Dairy and Wine tourist towns offer close-in substation plug-ins for larger scale power projects in New Zealand Helensville is often considered the premier heritage town of New Zealand’s North Island. At the end of last year its citizens were shocked and amazed to discover that a massive industrialised solar plant was to be built on the outskirts of the town, and was even planned to make an incursion into the township itself. Helensville is a prosperous coastal retirement and leisure destination near Auckland and is celebrated for its cafés, boutiques, and art galleries. Some suspected that Helensville had been selected…

Present participle and letter T are Extinct in new politico-media Argot A rapidly standardising New Zealand dialect has now overwhelmed the diction of broadcasters and politicians. It has caused to disappear the spoken alphabet consonant “t” and without the substitute Estuary glottal stop. The discarded letter “t” simply emerges as a “d” as in the frequently spoken “baddery” or “budder,” i.e. battery, butter. Duty is rendered as “doody,” and not as the glottalised “doo-ee,” the Cockney-Essex version. The absence of the glottal stop as in for example “buh-uh” for butter isolates this new semi-received politico-broadcast dialect or patois from any…

New York Born British Prime Minister has a claim to the White House Boris Johnson’s co-premiership with his wife Carrie introduced into the Westminster zone the trans-Atlantic concept of a shared connubial political leadership of which President and Mrs Clinton remain the outstanding Anglosphere exponents. This might now be taken a stage further with the No.10 Downing Street duo repeating this role in the White House. Mr Johnson was born in New York. Other than being born in the United States, the other Constitutional pre-requisite is that he lived there for 14 years. He appears to have lived as a…

John Howard’s Lazarus Rising is Boris Johnson’s hand book on Conservative Leadership Comebacks Boris Johnson was served notice because he could not be dissuaded from dragging his Conservative Party and government into progressive minefields which conservatives know they can never successfully extricate themselves from. Mr Johnson’s determination to engage in activist-grade progressivism became evident when at the Glasgow summit he proclaimed in the manner of a male member of the Royal Family “It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.” This effectively set ticking Mr Johnson’s own Doomsday Clock because it followed months…

Actors in Stalin Purges, Famines still promote Great Experiments Washington catch cries and rallying calls notably the Defund the Police campaign are supposed to demonstrate officially supported empathy with the deprived and downtrodden. They are received in Russia as indications of irresolution and instability Russia’s picking off its enemies liquidating them by whatever means wherever they are in the world demonstrates Russia’s horror of internal dissent and the consequent urgency to suppress it. The failure to comprehend Russia continues to involve the West’s newspapers of record. At the height of the collectivisation- induced great famine of the 1930s the New…

Commonwealth Prime Ministers Preoccupied by Ethical Topics Ignored Own Base Boris Johnson changed his party without formally announcing his switch as he veered across the political divide from conservatism to globalism. He is in good company. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison did the same thing. He swerved from straight laced traditionalism to accepting the full slate of contemporary avant garde values. The only difference being that Mr Johnson’s U-turn stemmed from the zeal associated with new converts to causes. Mr Morrison’s rather grim-faced acceptance of such causes was of a rather more operational nature. He sought to straddle the Australian…

Australasians now fear precedent spill over and sectarian schism From the outset of this millennium the coastal enclaves of the United States exported ethics to the rest of the Anglosphere. These buzzed up moral constructs were absorbed unquestioningly like warm honey until even just a few days ago. The repeal of Roe versus Wade amounted to a slap in the face. The United States ethics command of the Anglosphere became obvious when government heads in the UK and Australasia felt compelled to remind their own citizens that they were not in fact under United States jurisdiction, and thus they were…

Contorted Language and Ersatz Theory Hid Europe’s Peril Hanna Reitsch was the first woman to fly a helicopter and also a jet plane. She was an early glider pilot and refined air brake technology. It was as a gliding instructor that she toured Australasia where in an interview she was asked what Germans most regretted about World War 2. “Losing it,” replied the winner of two Iron Crosses. How did West Germany recover so rapidly from World War 2, and then absorb so easily the old Soviet East Germany? The aviatrix had supplied the answer. It was the next fixture…

Retribalization zealotry route for China penetration of institutions Accelerating separatism in favour of pre-European inhabitants in Australia and New Zealand encourages China to press ahead with its scheme to widen its presence in Oceania. The CCP understands that the more the governments of Australasia utter the words coming together, the more determined they are in fact to ensure that the opposite happens. The announcement by Australia’s new Labour government that it intends to establish a parallel Aboriginal advisory auxiliary parliament signals an in-depth commitment to a dual foreign policy and one that will favour a tilt toward China. New Zealand’s…

Who is doing who the favour? Republicanism becomes an intense if as yet unspecified issue with the return after a nine year interval of a Labour federal government. Palace courtiers seeking to avert it and tempted to send out members of the Royal family on flag waving tours should hesitate. The reason is that Australia needs the Royal family much more than the Royal family needs Australia. Australia is often considered the most over-governed of any nation anywhere Without the monarchy Australia would have added to its already richly layered in-place constituted governance a fifth layer and which like the…

Choreographed cover up meant Allies sourced power supplies from their enemy Robert Ludlum the thriller writer was asked how he discovered his rich amalgam of world threatening conspiracy, mystery and corporate greed. “I was leafing through a picture book portraying Germany between the wars,” he explained. “The population was poverty stricken, hopeless. Then a few pages later this same population became transformed into a picture of purposeful prosperity. “What had happened? “Hitler had taken over. Hitler had to have external assistance, powerful international helpers. Who and what were they and how did they transform Germany so quickly?” Thus fired and…