This morning I switched on my radio and had my intelligence insulted by Paul Holmes on Newstalk ZB. I don't know why the radio was tun...
ANOTHER FINE MESS
Sometimes ill-judged and rushed decisions can come back to haunt you. That's certainly the case with Mayor Sideshow Bob and the new Chr...
CRAP WEDDING
The Windsor family are spending approximately $90 million on the wedding of Katie and Willie when poverty in Britain is at an unpreced...
ANOTHER WENDY PETRIE MOMENT...
Wendy Petrie's live cross from London goes horribly wrong. Maybe she slept in.
BREAD AND CIRCUSES
The Windsor Family Wedding Circus is looming on the horizon and our media, as each day passes, is becoming even more puerile and infan...
SIDELINE BOB AND THE VIDEO NASTY
Sideshow Bob has been holding regular 'community earthquake briefings' in various parks around the eastern suburbs of Christchurch. ...
A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
Bexley's Uncertain Future from Metro News on Vimeo . Students from the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Christchurch used to put tog...
DON'T CALL US, WE'LL CALL YOU
The Candidate charts the compromises, concessions and outright betrayals that social democratic politics has made as it has travelled down...
DEAD PARTY WALKING
If an opinion poll is to be believed then most of the country and over half of Labour's own supporters have given up on Phil Goff-and ...
BOB DEFENDS GERRY'S DICTATORSHIP
Mayor Sideshow Bob writes a column for the Christchurch Star and, usually, its long on rhetoric and short on substance. On Wednesday (April...
THE EASTSIDE ISN'T BEING HEARD
I live on the east side of Christchurch and out here we're packing up our troubles in our old kitbags, rolling up our sleeves and getti...
BOB GOES MISSING
The going gets tough and Sideshow Bob goes missing. The select committee hearing on the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Bill heard submission...
OVER TO YOU, MUZZA
Since our Minister of Foreign Affairs has expressed his concern abut the denial of human rights in Libya and supports the present 'huma...
I DON'T CARE ABOUT LABOUR'S LIST
I don't care who is on the Labour Party list. I just don't care. The overall consensus from the media commentators, having examined...
THE HAND OF IMPEY
In the same week that the Government announced that it was pulling the plug on TVNZ7, and driving another nail into the coffin of public te...
THE GOVERNMENT'S TAME LITTLE POODLE
Since the February 22 earthquake, the Government has done very little to address the housing crisis that is now confronting Christchurch....
WHAT'S HENDO BEEN UP TO?
Now that our mate Dave 'Hendo' Henderson has been bankrupted (debts of $140 million), I thought The Hendo Files could finally be clo...
NO COCKROACH EATING, CLAIMS TAMIHERE
There was a disturbing story in the media over the weekend of a six year old Bay of Plenty boy who was so hungry that he ate a cockroach. ...
BOB IGNORES PLEAS OF COUNCIL TENANTS
Despite Sideshow Bob's professed 'concern' for the quake victims in the eastern suburbs of Christchurch that concern has not t...