Prius schmius
Feeling guilty after watching An Inconvenient Truth? Want to do your bit to help save the planet but don’t have the cash to […]
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“Ban water?” asks Jacqui Dean
In her defense, I don’t remember there being a chemistry component to Play School.
Lockwood: feeling it or faking it?
Ok. To celebrate The Standard’s one month anniversary, and to thank you for visiting dear reader, we’re going to run a competition. Forget […]
A candle in the wind
He’s been thieving her policies and now he’s thieving her words. When will John Key say something original? Colin Espiner notes that while […]
Sicko
A reader just sent me a link to a piece in The Guardian entitled: “First world results on a third world budget”. It’s […]
Freegan living
The LA Times has a story today about Freegans – “a growing subculture of people who have reduced their spending habits and live […]
Q. What goes on tour…
a) stays on tour? b) stays on tour until there’s political capital to be gained by raising it? Colin Espiner is worth a […]
Inoculation, part one
Twenty years ago this year, the fourth Labour government passed legislation that made New Zealand nuclear free. At the time, the legislation was […]
Map the candidates
Someone just sent me this. Pretty cool site which uses Google Maps to track the US presidential candidates. Map the Candidates is a […]
Kiwiblog’s tomato disaster
Go check it out. You know you want to. Via swissmiss
Fairer pay for youth workers
The Herald has the story: Workers aged 16 and 17 will earn the adult minimum wage once they have been in the job […]
GS-what?
I’d nearly forgotten until I read this that the Nats forgot to pay slithered out of paying their GST for their broadcasting at […]
What else have the Nats got to hide?
The Herald ran an article yesterday detailing the Nat’s refusal to support legislation that would strengthen the Auditor-General’s powers to investigate MP’s lists […]
130,000 people have enrolled with Kiwisaver
Here’s the press release with a bit more detail.
Your mum was right – sharing’s good
That’s why we’ve just installed “Share This” – a blog plugin that should make it easier for you to share our tasty content […]
English plays the long game
People the country over were puzzled by the odd choice of Key’s entrance music to the National Party annual conference last month. Originally […]
Jordan Carter on electoral finance
Jordan Carter at Just Left injects some sense into the debate on the Electoral Finance Bill running at Kiwiblog: In 2005 National tried […]
Snake oil
A sudden end to the Schadenfreude
From bFM yesterday – Mickey Havoc interviews John Key… Mickey Havoc: “But you wouldn’t compare her to Muldoon? That’s what I’m asking…” John […]
Key: style over substance
The Press ran a story today in which they claim that: Labour polling conducted by UMR Insight, excerpts of which were leaked to […]
Armstrong changes his mind?
That clipping’s from the Herald on the 23rd of this month. Yesterday on RNZ John Armstrong appeared to backtrack over whether Labour holding […]
Mo(o)re on “personal attacks”
Item on Stuff yesterday interviewing Barry Gustafson, the author of His Way, a biography of Robert Muldoon (Auckland University Press, 2000): Professor of […]
Online polls
National Party blogger David Farrar writes: “The poll had Key leading Clark by 2:1 consistently all of Tuesday. Then a huge splurt of […]
Family-friendly facade
Yet another policy inoculation today from the Nats, this time on paid parental leave. Judith Collins is now “generally not against it” and […]
Behind the veneer
Russell Brown writes in Hard News: “It was always odds-on that Judith Collins MP would top her previous efforts at public nastiness – […]
National: policy free zone
From Morning Report (full audio) earlier today: Sean Plunket: Final question when do we get to see your party’s ah local government policy? […]
If you can’t take the heat…
The National Party have been complaining about the increasing scrutiny on John Key’s business dealings. First, his association with the “Earl of Auckland” […]
Same old National Party
As the National Party concentrated on its own political health with yet another policy u-turn inoculation, this time on the need for an […]
Hone “Sorting Hat” Harawira
Hone Harawira hits the nail on the head in this interview on ‘Sunday’: “Well, you know, the strange this is that everybody calls […]
Key’s missing compass
In the Weekend Herald today, Fran O’Sullivan opines: “By drawing out his opponents before they even noticed Key was using the type of […]
Fairer electoral funding
Today in the Dom: Tracy Watkins gets National Party blogger David Farrar to coauthor share his views in an article on the Electoral […]
Parselmouth under pressure
Has anyone else noticed John Key’s tendency to drift into Parseltongue when he’s under pressure? From his Radio New Zealand interview on the […]
The Earl of Auckland’s a drip
Exclusive Brethren: at it again
The thought of losing his seat must be making John Howard desperate. It’s been revealed that he’s recently met with senior Exclusive Brethren […]
Phones in prisons
Contrary to what the National Party would have us believe, restricting inmates’ use of phones in prisons has always been a bit of […]
Trotter on Key’s conference speech
Further to ZKM’s post below it really was a great article last week from Chris Trotter on John Key’s weak National Party conference […]