by Heather Hastie | Nov 10, 2017 | New Zealand, Simon's Cat, Tweets
I don’t know if there are any tweets about it because I haven’t looked, but a story in the Washington Post is causing a bit of a furore here. A USian living in NZ, Ben Mack, wrote a story for them called ‘How the far right is poisoning New...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 5, 2017 | New Zealand, Tweets
The All Blacks New Zealand has had five big wins in the sporting arena in the last 24 hours, so that’s what a large proportion of the tweets in this country are about. The biggest was the All Blacks vs the Barbarians (basically All Blacks “B”) at...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 3, 2017 | Simon's Cat, Tweets, US Politics
Whatever you think of President Trump’s policies, you can’t pretend that he’s presidential. His daily tweets alone are enough to condemn him in the behaviour stakes. He seems to have no appreciation whatsoever of the dignity of the office he holds....
by Heather Hastie | Oct 31, 2017 | Tweets
As you can imagine the Twitterverse is full of tweets about two things today: Halloween and the arrests resulting from the Mueller investigation. I predicted a couple of days ago that Paul Manafort would be the first arrest. Yesterday, though I didn’t say it...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 29, 2017 | Tweets
There aren’t many tweets about the situation unfolding in Spain regarding Catalonia. So, I put up a few myself. I find the whole thing extremely worrying as it’s hard to see how there can be a peaceful resolution at this point. Personally, I oppose the...