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Bob Jones: Sick of nanny state? Well say hello to a nappy one
Do I wear a lifejacket? Never, writes Bob Jones. It's part of the pleasure, zipping about solely in shorts and a hat but mollycoddling know-alls abound.
Bob Jones: Enrich poor with home ownership
Unsurprisingly, the Government's state housing sale to the Salvation Army fell over. And so it should as it was a bad idea, writes Bob Jones.
Bob Jones: All that red tape's tying us in knots
It would be impossible to gain design approval and build the Empire State building in under five years in Auckland today, despite modern technology, writes Bob Jones.
Bob Jones: Who's ya daddy? Could be anyone
Bob Jones writes: Female gullibility is essential for the continuation of the species, thus we must take the bad with the good.
Bob Jones: Get ahead - go and get a hat
Start a fad wearing a dead cat on your head, claim it's "in" and that lot would instantly succumb, resulting in widespread catacide, writes Bob Jones.
Bob Jones: Keep statues just for our own greats
Our small population means we've produced few world-renowned people warranting the ultimate tribute of a statue.
Bob Jones: It's simply a case of creaming the opposition
Bob Jones writes: Given the constant foreign news ghastliness, particularly mad Muslim vileness, I sometimes think blissful ignorance may have merit.
Bob Jones: Living wage is a reward, not a right
Like barristers, I hand write everything: it enables clearer expression. It's a life-long habit which I enjoy in a tactile sense.
Bob Jones: Poseurs take us all for suckers
In the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.
Bob Jones: Cheap labour will fix housing crisis
The solution to Auckland's serious housing shortage is - when viewed calmly - logical, writes Bob Jones. Emulate Dubai, and hire cheap overseas workers.
Bob Jones: Cunliffe should man up and quit
Bob Jones writes: Serial apologiser Labour party leader David Cunliffe should put aside his sorrow at being a man and do the manly thing.
Bob Jones: It's gruelling and depressing, but it's democracy
Most of us have had euphoric moments so overwhelming as to be etched on one's memory ever more.
Bob Jones: Bureaucrats wallowing in cultural correctness
'The Pope's Losing Battle with the Mob", headlined Warsaw's Polityka newspaper.
Bob Jones: Ridicule - a small price to pay for fleeting fame
When I wrote recently that this election was done and dusted, a storm of protest erupted on the NZ Herald's website from Labour's deeply unattractive, rabid tribalists.
Bob Jones: Forcing te reo on children is a waste
Periodically we're subject to collective hysterias, led by the media in unison with relevant bureaucrats, single-issue lobbyists and politicians.
Bob Jones: Campaign antics worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan
Herald columnist Dita De Boni recently condemned Foreign Minister Murray McCully's responses to foreign crises.
Bob Jones: Boxing just the thing for the human spirit
Almost alone boxing in its rugged individualism blatantly flies in the face of these disastrous modern trends. comment
Bob Jones: Today's immorality just a crime of the times
Ever since the first Jimmy Savile revelation, dozens of elderly former television, radio and political celebrities have been accused of long past sexual offences.