Yvonne Van Dongen: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Ranginui: Call of the Ice - a review

Anyone not rolling around clutching their sides laughing or miming sick noises into a bag will not like this review since I did both while watching this blatant piece of propaganda. Even my friend, a dedicated LWWW*, thought it was tosh.

To be honest, if that wasn’t your reaction, you either have no sense of humour or you have been utterly captured by the Māori wonderfulness brigade.

Sean Plunket hits back at Stuff claims pākehā treat history like garbage

On The Platform, Sean responds to a Stuff article authored by Joel Maxwell

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Cam Slater: Not with Your Lot, No

Shane Te Pou has an article in the NZ Herald questioning whether we can have politics without division. He suggests we can all learn how to do politics from Maori. Naturally, he begins his article by attacking those who oppose the Labour Party.

Kevin: On the Wonderfulness of Being Maori

To paraphrase Penn and Teller, “Maori wonderfulness” is bullsh*t.

The psychology of sport isn’t new, but Maori concepts in this space are proving a game-changer for up-and-coming sports stars.

Really?

Bob Jones: Another Maori wonderfulness absurdity

Real estate agents operate under the Real Estate Agents Act, needless to say overseen by a farcically large Wellington bureaucracy.

The Act’s expressed objectives are the regulating of real estate agents, the raising of standards and to provide a disciplinary process to deal with complaints, all plainly worthy.

By law agents must renew their licence to practise each year. Now brace yourself.

Bob Jones: Fashionable silliness

In a mindbogglingly inane contributory NZ Herald article Rob Campbell, chairman of Auckland’s casino (among other sinecures) asks, “Who on earth is being hurt by co-governance?”. I’ll answer that by stating the obvious. We all are.

In a democracy the underlying principle is an equal value vote accorded every citizen, regardless of their intellectual differences, contribution to society, ethnicity, and so on.

Cam Slater: I Thought Maori Invented Swimming?

Apparently, too many Maori are drowning, and it’s all the fault of colonialism. If only we could approach water safety the Maori way it could solve this problem. Well, that’s what the woke Wombles at Water Safety NZ have decided:

Bob Jones: Home again

I reluctantly returned home a fortnight ago after over three months away from our hermit kingdom.

Awaiting me, a swag of nice letters regarding this blog from readers, which were greatly appreciated.

My first task was to read 3 months of newspapers, albeit primarily The Herald as not speaking maori largely cuts out the Dominion Post for me. Most of its pages are devoted to various forms of maori wonderfulness. The Herald also had tons of maori reports albeit less maori wonderfulness and instead maori criminal activity stories.