Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 9:01 am, January 6th, 2014 -
117 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, poverty
Tags: Garth George
Garth George’s latest newspaper column has a progressive prescription for the abolishing of poverty, some marxist analysis, a heavy criticism of Australian Banks and a conclusion that laissez-faire capitalism has to go. I never thought he was a radical …
Written By:
r0b -
Date published: 9:28 am, April 16th, 2011 -
66 comments
Categories: International, newspapers
Tags: Garth George, granny herald
I don’t read Garth George columns. Life’s too short eh? But I could hardly miss this one, with its bizarre anti-China quote plastered on the front page of The Herald.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 2:12 pm, October 17th, 2010 -
64 comments
Categories: farming, Mining, overseas investment
Tags: fish, Garth George, peak metals, peak oil
In his last column Garth George laments how foods he regularly enjoyed in his childhood (1870s?) are now priced beyond the reach of most New Zealanders. It’s easy to dismiss the complaints of an old man about prices these days but there’s a deeper story: with population growth and resource depletion, there increasingly isn’t enough to go around.
Written By:
Zetetic -
Date published: 10:42 am, September 22nd, 2012 -
180 comments
Categories: Media
Tags: fran o'sullivan, john armstrong, john roughan
John Roughan has a whinge about Campbell Live’s coverage of the Christchurch school closures in today’s Herald.
Poor John pines for the days when Paul Holmes was broadcasting rightwing bullsh*t nationwide every evening.
Written By:
Mike Smith -
Date published: 1:56 pm, December 29th, 2011 -
75 comments
Categories: Economy, Media
Tags:
In today’s Herald, Geof Nightingale, PWC tax partner and member of the Nats’ Tax Working Group, joins the argument for greater inequality in New Zealand. Ironically in the same issue Garth George writes his last column as the editors decided that his column “does not fit in with their future plans for the opinion pages.” Garth thinks the most serious and vexing problem facing New Zealand – and the Western World – now and in the immediate future is income inequality and unemployment. I’m with Garth – I hope the Herald’s future plans are not with Nightingale.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 3:07 pm, December 16th, 2011 -
53 comments
Categories: abortion, feminism, gay rights, newspapers
Tags: Garth George, social engineering
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here
Garth George: Social Engineering is wrong unless it’s my social engineering. Those Greens are sinister and dangerous…
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 10:06 am, December 9th, 2011 -
24 comments
Categories: newspapers
Tags: granny herald, shelley bridgeman
I have a theory that the Herald employs Shelley Bridgeman et al as columnists only because, while a relatively small team of monkeys on typewriters could spit out much more cogent and insightful pieces well within deadline, the price of bananas these days makes it more economical to fill the space between ads with whatever dross these ‘writers’ throw-up. But, I have an alternative that benefits everyone.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 9:55 am, October 28th, 2011 -
27 comments
Categories: election 2011, labour, leadership, Media, phil goff
Tags: policy, presidential style campaigns
Labour has once again broken the mould and chosen to focus its election campaign on policy. As a country we’ve been saying for a long time that elections should be about policies and not personalities. Now we’ve got a chance to try it. If the media is up to the challenge, of course.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 7:20 am, August 5th, 2011 -
57 comments
Categories: newspapers, tax
Tags: beautiful rants, Garth George
It isn’t often that I find myself in agreement with Garth George. But he’s written a scorching indictment of right-wing greed that feels right at home here on The Standard…
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 12:31 pm, March 20th, 2011 -
604 comments
Categories: Politics
Tags: abortion, Queen of Thorns
Queen of Thorns says..
Believe it or not, audience-made-up-of-a-shitload-of-privileged-dudes, New Zealand’s abortion laws are shite, they are outdated, they do fuck up women’s lives, and it is time for a fucking change.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:37 am, August 21st, 2010 -
33 comments
Categories: Economy, International, Media, Politics, Social issues
Tags:
There are a bunch of interesting little stories floating around this week that we didn’t get round to writing full posts on or that we wrote drafts for but never finished. So here’s a new, possibly weekly feature – Quick Bites:
NZ Institute: ‘Nats have no plan’
Suicide funding cut
Nats’ interesting donors
Workers’ rights under attack
One foot out of Iraq
Vultures
Party on Garth
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 10:30 am, March 18th, 2010 -
20 comments
Categories: honeymoon, john key, national/act government, spin
Tags: Garth George
There’s a danger in being a government that does nothing except pay of its rich mates, and that’s losing faith with the conservative base. Garth George is the slightly mad, always irritable voice of this demographic, so it’s worth watching as his initial love for John Key wears off to be replaced by despair (and rising anger) at Key’s failure to deliver the brighter future he promised.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 10:52 am, March 11th, 2010 -
3 comments
Categories: child abuse, law and "order"
Tags: Garth George
Sometimes you get a really pleasant surprise and I got one today from Garth George. Despite being a pretty old school conservative he gives a stunning rebuke of the knee-jerk authoritarianism/fascism/randianism that so often characterises the thinking of the Right these days and was recently highlighted by David Garrett’s call for sterilisation of the poor.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 12:08 pm, March 4th, 2010 -
39 comments
Categories: law and "order", police
Tags: Garth George, judith collins, simon power
An ugly side of the Right, one that a lot of people thought was long defeated, has reemerged in recent weeks. Yesterday we had David Garrett’s ‘sterilise the poor because they might become criminals or breed criminals’ and last week we had arguably more disturbing comments from Judith Collins about how she wanted to restore “fear” of the Police.
Written By:
r0b -
Date published: 10:58 am, March 3rd, 2010 -
27 comments
Categories: helen clark, john key, leadership
Tags: ex leaders
Comparing the post-leadership careers of Clark and Brash is quite a study in contrasts. Clark’s has been stellar, Brash’s an embarrassment. But the world of difference between these two leaders is much clearer with the perfect hindsight of 2010 than it was when they were locked in a tight electoral battle in 2005.
How will history look back at the leadership of John Key?
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 11:50 am, February 19th, 2010 -
1 comment
Categories: blogs, Media
Tags: editing the herald, granny herald
Guess what? Editing the Herald is back for the new year and it’s as sharp as ever.
The Herald is still full of casual idiocy, incredible stuff ups (like the headline that went to print on page 3 as “HeadXXX”), and the bizarreness of Garth George.
EtH skewers it all brilliantly.
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 12:25 pm, December 16th, 2009 -
25 comments
Categories: Media
Tags: dimpost, editing the herald, granny herald, iphone
James at Editing teh Herald has started the Golden Garth awards aimed at rewarding the recipients at the Granny. You should all get over there and suggest candidates. I’m puzzling on it myself because there are so many good candidates. I’m aware that some think that the Dom Post is worse than the Granny, but […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 5:26 pm, December 3rd, 2009 -
25 comments
Categories: labour, phil goff
Tags: 2025 taskforce, don brash
We all know the 2025 Taskforce is a farce and a waste of taxpayers’ money. The Government has disowned it, the critics have panned it. Even Garth George has come out calling for its first report to be recycled into toilet paper. It genuinely appears to serve no function but to subsidise the wacky right-wing […]
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 12:30 pm, December 3rd, 2009 -
29 comments
Categories: humour
Tags:
It started with me agreeing wholeheartedly with Fran about youth unemployment. Now I can add Garth George and Bruce Sheppard to this strange confluence of opinions. For a start Garth George has provided one of the few decent media critiques of Brash’s batshit crazy proposal: The description of the report by Finance Minister Bill English […]
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 12:05 pm, December 3rd, 2009 -
5 comments
Categories: act
Tags: don brash, Garth George, taskforce 2025
One of the most amusing things in the granny today is Garth George, our iconoclast from Rotorua ripping another hole into the credibility of the Brash Taskforce 2025. Absurdities abound, the first of which was the appointment of people like Dr Brash and Mr Caygill who, along with their soulmate, Act Party seat-warmer Roger Douglas, […]
Written By:
r0b -
Date published: 11:36 am, November 6th, 2009 -
12 comments
Categories: brand key, john key
Tags: true love
We were offered two very different views of John Key PM yesterday. The first by a pair of love-struck journalists. We’ll start with them. Let’s have a big hand for Garth George folks! Garth George: We should all salute our wonderful PM It comes as no surprise that John Key and National remain top of […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 4:00 pm, April 30th, 2009 -
30 comments
Categories: john key
Tags: barack obama, Garth George
The bizarre project to try to portray John Key as the Obama of the South Seas continues. Garth George today writes: “The new politics is being generated by two relatively young leaders, Prime Minister John Key and President Barack Obama, both of whom overcame less than desirable childhoods to succeed in business.” “succeed in business”… […]
Written By:
Steve Pierson -
Date published: 1:58 pm, January 30th, 2009 -
21 comments
Categories: the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags:
Last year, we had The Standard Week as a regular feature on a Friday. We might resurrect that if there is popular demand but, first, I’ve been talking with some of the others and we want to try out a new Friday feature . Every week there are little comments from politicians, media, bloggers, and commenters […]
Written By:
John A -
Date published: 11:12 am, January 29th, 2009 -
32 comments
Categories: articles, maori party, national/act government
Tags: Garth George, john armstrong, pita sharples
Surprise, surprise, it’s Garth George. “The economic situation is without a doubt the most urgent of predicaments to be dealt with, but so far this year all John Key and Co have offered is a talkfest scheduled for next month. Now we all know that the one thing that one does these days when one […]
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 10:39 am, January 4th, 2009 -
26 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags:
I’m always amazed about the level of sheer scientific ignorance of most of the climate change deniers. Characteristically ridiculous statements (and scientifically humorous) usually emit from them like CO2 emissions from a coal fired power station. For instance, Garth George in the NZ Herald on his new years eve article said In Britain, the Meteorological […]
Written By:
Steve Pierson -
Date published: 11:01 am, June 5th, 2008 -
18 comments
Categories: articles, Environment
Tags: Garth George
Garth George surprised me today, and a welcome surprise it was. Here’s an extract from his article – I decided that in this week’s column I would have a bit of fun at the Greens’ expense in the wake of their annual meeting. But since the spartan media coverage given to that conference was insufficient […]
Written By:
all_your_base -
Date published: 2:06 pm, September 27th, 2007 -
Comments Off on More on National’s privatisation agenda
Categories: national
Tags: national
The Herald reports that Graham Stairmand, president of Grey Power has sent National a stern warning. He believes the Nats’ proposed partial privatisation of SOEs “will seal the fate of the National Party… Nobody will be naive enough to believe that this is not going to be a step to full privatisation.” Also in the […]
Written By:
all_your_base -
Date published: 12:11 pm, September 20th, 2007 -
2 comments
Categories: national
Tags: national
Garth George weighs in on the gold card today in the Herald. While the debate rages about the merits of Winston’s senior card and whether cheaper rinses and jetboat rides are worth all the fuss, I’m tempted to tell my gran what she’s been telling me for years: don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth […]
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