Let’s have a heart and lend a helping hand for the less fortunate, pleads PAT PILCHER.
Life
Election Depression
It’s time once again to feel betrayed by your fellow countrymen and women. It’s time for GARY STEEL to plunge into an election depression.
Farmers Indifferent To Nation’s Waterways
ANDREW JOHNSTONE grew up in a farming community in the Waikato and knows a thing or two about water pollution.
The Shocking Truth About The Ruptured Jet Fuel Pipeline Debacle
Is it a jet plane? Is it an ruptured oil pipeline? No, it’s PAT PILCHER venting about another avoidable Auckland-centric crisis.
NATIVISM, PATRIOTISM OR RACISM?
JOHN HANLON is one of New Zealand’s greatest legacy pop artists. He’s also a man with always interesting, thought-provoking views on life, the universe, everything. In this piece, he discusses our attitude to Asians and immigrants.
Hospital Heads Must Roll
A patient died after having been evicted from Christchurch Hospital and dumped at a bus stop. PAT PILCHER writes that there must be consequences.
How About Less Election Bullshittery In The Media?
PAT PILCHER is angry that – just out from an important election which will decide the immediate future for all of us – mass media is happily raking in the dollars while ignoring their civic duty to tell us the truth about policy.
Kill Me Quick
GARY STEEL grew up in the punk era when everyone wanted to die but few did, and wants to know why suicide is suddenly at epidemic proportions amongst NZ youth.
Government Favours Global Tech Giants In No-tax Deals
PAT PILCHER is angry about international tech companies who get away with paying virtually no tax in New Zealand, and are wierdly given preferential treatment by our government.
Shake Your Bootycamp
All this talk about boots and camps is just silly stuff, writes PAT PILCHER, who has a few alternative ideas.
Consequences
Could widespread knowledge of a simple piece of homespun philosophy set off a chain reaction and change the way we treat each other? GARY STEEL thinks so.
The Hosking Question And TV Debates
Is the issue really about Mike Hosking, or about televised election debates? PAT PILCHER weighs in on the topic of the moment.