The Tolleycopter
Most people have focused on the utter hypocrisy of National’s Anne Tolley flying around Auckland in a helicopter looking at education buildings from […]
Eddie
Why won’t Key sack his Minister?
The Herald is now reporting that John Key won’t sack Richard Worth, despite new information coming to light that an associated company to […]
The spun praising the spinner
Falling for a politician’s tricks – that’s gullibility Seeing those tricks for what they are – that’s nous Seeing them for what they […]
How much is a lie worth?
Labour revealed in parliament today that Richard Worth has another secret shareholding that created conflict of interest when he carried out ministerial duties on […]
Mana enhancement – fail
To further enhance their mana Te Ururoa Flavell and Rahui Katene spent their questions in parliament yesterday asking patsies to National. ‘How will […]
Key plays the April fool
Someone’s set up a swag of fake Twitter accounts under the names of Labour MPs. Apparently Labour came across these on Monday at […]
What’s Labour got up its sleeve?
When you were perusing yesterday’s Hansard (don’t lie, you were) did you notice this question from Pete Hodgson to Richard Worth amongst the […]
Worth’s story unravels
Despite getting a “bollocking” from John Key, Richard Worth last night denied that he had been acting as a minister when he went […]
Time for Fyfe to go
It’s time for Bill English, as shareholding minister in Air New Zealand, to tell the AirNZ board that either they fire CEO Robert […]
Ad questions
Does anyone know why DairyNZ, the seafood industry, and the forestry industry are running ad campaigns at the moment? They’re strange ad campaigns because […]
Rehabilitated?
On Q+A this morning, Judith Collins couldn’t defend prisons for profit but she sounded quite reasonable when talking about the need for more […]
Herald cartoonist bereft of ideas?
Seeing some of Rod Emmerson’s cartoons in the Herald over 2009 thus far, you’d think we were into the Right’s nightmare of a […]
Take responsibility or take the blame
As Minister of Works responding to a disaster in his portfolio, Bob Semple famously said ‘I am responsible but not to blame’. That […]
Gulp
The Key/English odd couple continue to give us a sweet and sour mix of messages – one with rosy promises that the recession will […]
Give the people what they want
Stephen Joyce keeps saying the reason he has slashed investment in public transport to build more roads is that he is giving the […]
CycleWatch
Prime Minister John Key has promised a national cycleway to solve the country’s economic woes. I intend to keep you informed of exactly […]
Three strikes and you’re garrotted
The Toad’s ‘interview’ with ACT’s David Garrett is so good we had to steal it. Like all good parody, it’s easy to believe […]
And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid…
Q+A was quite good. Guyon Espiner was well researched and focused on the contrast between what Key says and what he does. Maybe […]
Where would you get that idea?
John Armstrong March 21 2009 – “So the National Government is variously inching, shifting, drifting, veering or lurching to the right, depending on […]
Four wheels good, two wheels bad
The Government is taking nearly half a billion dollars out of public transport, cycling, walking, road maintance, and traffic policing to pay for […]
Third party returns
The Electoral Commission has released the third party spending returns for the 2008 election campaign and it looks like for all National and […]
Ambitious for New Zealand
John Key in the NBR*: There is more chance in this decade than the last one of New Zealand moving up the OECD […]
Espiner on National’s use of the crisis
Sadly, I couldn’t find Colin Espiner’s excellent piece in The Press today online. It’s good. Colin’s thoughtful observations derail the government’s PR spin […]
More questions on the Sensible Sentencing Trust
Last week, Tane pointed out that the private prison industry had been involved in corrupting the political process in the US by funding […]
Stewart vs Cramer
Earlier this week, I posted on the feud that erupted when the Daily Show criticised CNBC and the business media. Last night, CNBC’s […]
Doubleplusungood II
A leak reveals more words banned by National/ACT : strategy blueprint engagement socialisation collaboration co-ordination We’re destroying words – scores of them, hundreds […]
Daily show vs CNBC
Last week, Jon Stewart poked fun at the media who cheer-led the housing and stockmarket bubbles and are now blaming the people who […]
What they’re hiding
Interesting to see that the new ACC board chairman, John Judge, is an alumnus/affiliate member of the Business Roundtable. That’s the same Business […]
Doubleplusungood
Sources tell us that National/ACT government (Nactgov) has ordered more words to be removed from official documents. We already knew they had banned […]
The Take
Following my post yesterday about the EPMU’s film on the recession, Socialist Aotearoa has alerted me to the fact The Take is now […]
Explaining the recession
The EPMU have released a short film on youtube explaining the recession and their response to it. It features Brian Easton, Gareth Morgan, […]
Govt set to deny low-paid workers basic rights
The National government couldn’t hold off democracy forever, so today we are graced with the first members’ day of the new term. And […]
Funny because it’s true
This has to be the funniest political cartoon I’ve seen in some time, and it’s true too. The innovation we need has to […]
The Mad Hatter’s Job Summit
There was a conference going on in the south of the city, and the Prime Minister, the Cheshire Fat Cat, and his cronies […]
Spot the odd one out
I grabbed the stills from this Herald video of the Jobs Summit – can you see her? Worth watching the first 10 seconds of […]
Now comes the hard part
I get why the government is riding so high in the polls. John Key looks confident amd relaxed albeit a little goofy sometimes […]