Responses To Guardian Article "New Zealand was a friend to Middle Earth, but it’s no friend of the earth"

The reader responses have been coming in thick and fast to the Guardian’s website after the above article was published on Thursday. Please see blog post 100% Pure Myth Exposed By British Press. Here are a few of the reader comments, starting with a very typical ‘Pom Bashing‘ rant, followed by the usual ‘but other…

Covert Racial Prejudice Commonplace In NZ

By Neil Reid – Sunday News “A MAORI Party boss says hidden racism is rife in New Zealand. Co-vice president Heta Hingston said fellow Maori Party member Hone Harawira’s email rant against Pakeha was no worse than “covert” racial prejudice commonplace throughout the country.“That email, I wouldn’t want to say [if it was racist],” Hingston,…

Another Shooting In Christchurch

View Larger Map, General view of Gould Crescent where the shooting took placeChristchurch, the city that’s ‘not the nation’s murder capital,’ has just experienced another serious shooting incident. After an ‘altercation’ at a house in Radley Street, Woolston at around 10.20 last night gunshots were heard in nearby Gould Crescent about an hour later. The…