Labour Making Life A Royal Bore

ACT New Zealand Youth Affairs Spokesman Heather Roy today wondered whether Prince Edward had any qualms about presenting an award from which his father's title had been unceremoniously dumped.

"My son has recently completed his silver Duke of Edinburgh award - whoops, I forgot, under Prime Minister Helen Clark's creeping republicanism it is now the Young New Zealanders' Challenge," Mrs Roy said.

"Not that it really matters; my son didn't realise it had changed - I suspect few people have. I also wonder if people realise Miss Clark appears to be laying the groundwork to become New Zealand's first ever President, should her UN job prospects fall through.

"How long it will take before Labour effectively severs all our ties with the UK? We've already lost the Privy Council, Royal Honours have been replaced by New Zealand honours - which no one understands - and our Prime Minister won't say grace with the Queen.

"I'm looking forward to my son completing his gold Duke of Edinburgh award, and it is my fervent hope that Labour's politically correct agenda will not prevent him from receiving it from a Knight of the Realm - or perhaps even another of the Duke's sons," Mrs Roy said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>