Author: Lord Sutch
Unheralded Stuff: 28 February 2014
Let’s not talk about incest any more aye? It was fun while it lasted but we’re moving on. Here’s some world news you may not have known about.
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The greatest cultural cringe in New Zealand; or why New Zealand Government Departments shouldn’t make videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0BND-zLDc&app=desktop Hat tip: Laura McQuillan
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Free political advice: National Party
This is the second entry in my free-political-advice series. Today we look at the incumbents, the National Party. Or as I call them “John Key and the suits”.
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Why I’m pseudonymous (relatively)
So in the course of discussing how I find it appalling that the Prime Minister of our country interacts with – and provides copy to – Cameron Slater given his “hilarious” revelling in the death of children with ethnic names, a few people called me out on my pseudonym.
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 13 February 2014
Much of the world has been in a flap about flappy bird. I have it on my phone. It’s not that good. More just frustrating.
Read MoreFree political advice: Labour Party
So it’s election year. And I’m a thoughtful, intelligent, relatively non-partisan kind of guy. So I thought I’d do some thinking about what each party should do in the run-up to the election.
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It’s PC gone mad!
Whenever something happens that tries to protect a minority say, or maybe sets out to right a wrong, there’s always a group of people who start yelling “This is bloody PC gone mad!”
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 10 February
Goodness, between wildfires in Australia, the Sochi Olympics and Danish Zoos feeding dead giraffes to lions it’s a wonder anything else was reported. Fortunately I’ve gone looking so you don’t have to.
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An apology
Over the weekend I was emailed a post entitled “The sisterhood of the travelling racist jacket”. It was an opinion piece on the comments between Anne Tolley and Metiria Turei about who can and can’t wear flash jackets to parliament.
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A letter to Minister Anne Tolley and Ray Smith, CEO of the Dept of Corrections
In light of news I found in today’s Unheralded Stuff concerning Serco, I have emailed the following to the Minister for Corrections and the CEO of the Dept of Corrections.
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 31 January 2014
So if you’re all done reading the myriad articles on Lorde, including our own Jonny Potts’ thinkpiece then you must be thirsting for something of actual news-value. Well we have just the death, destruction and disaster for you. It’s time for Unheralded Stuff.
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How’s yer nation?
So we’ve had three states of the nation in the last week. Three. And really they weren’t states of the nation were they?
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 27 January 2014
As New Zealanders have their eyes on either Lorde’s state of the nation speech or David Cunliffe’s performance at the grammys we take a look around the rest of the world and see what’s going on.
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 23 January 2014
Once more the world sections of Stuff.co.nz and the Herald have been fairly comprehensive. Good job guys. This has also been a learning curve for me, I’ve learned a lot of things that are going on in the world. And they’re quite shit for the most part. Lucky I am able to laugh at the worst we have to offer.
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 21 January 2014
I’ve noticed an improvement in the calibre of the world news on both Stuff.co.nz and the Herald. So well done. Long may it continue.
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How soon is too soon?
Comedy is tragedy plus time they say. Who is they? People. Don’t ask awkward questions.*
Read MoreUnheralded stuff: 15 January 2014
So there’s been some pretty massive news overnight about the war on drugs. And I’ve done a site search on both Stuff.co.nz and nzherald.co.nz and neither outfit is covering it.
Read MoreUnheralded stuff: 14 January
A day after Hollywood started its annual circle-jerk season, and Tina Fey casually got super racist (was no-one else uncomfortable with her ‘blacklist’ gag?) we’re back to other things that I’ve found.
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