A couple of nights ago Nicky Hager gave his Bruce Jesson lecture on "Investigative journalism in the age of media meltdown: from National Party Headquarters to Afghanistan". It is well worth a solid read (hat tip to NRT- "well worth your five minutes" - clearly…
On the back of Duncan Garner's scathing piece on David Shearer, David Farrar endorses Grant Robertson for leader. Yeah, because his last recommendation's worked out so well. Call me cynical, but I just don't think National's pollster has the Left's interests at heart. No, I…
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NBR is reporting that, in the style of a not quite so grand "grand coalition", prominent Labour party booster Josie Pagani will be replacing Martyn Bradbury as the leftwing commentator for the truth; the newpaper now edited by prominent National Party booster Cameron Slater. It's…
As National cuts services, incomes, and pushes more Kiwi's into the gutter, their real agenda it seems apart from creating an underclass is removing them from the Government tit, and after that supporting them with charity. Charity starts at home they say, (if you have…
It looks like Gordon Campbell has picked up on Irish's piece on what Labour needs to do and added a few thoughts of his own. What the polls indicate is that most New Zealanders appear to want John Key as Prime Minister. However, they would…
Campbell Live had a piece on Monday based on a leaked report into the benefit cost ratio of National's Kapiti Expressway project. Now, in its evidence to the EPA hearings on the project, NZTA has claimed the BCR was 0.93 - ie you only get…
Yet another thing the PM is "not responsible" for - add it to the long list. This time it is his "oversight" of the SAS: PM denies accountability for SAS actions Prime Minister John Key says he cannot be held accountable if New Zealand SAS…
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