Bye bye Ed, you beauty
I won’t try and add anything much to the many, many words of tribute on this, the sad death of Sir Ed Hillary […]
Eddie
John Key hearts Canada
Move over Australia, John Key has a new heart-felt love: Canada. On his recent ‘heartland’ tour to discover what country folk thought, Key […]
Renewal, renewal, renewal in Palmy
Today the hotly contested four horse race to become the candidate for Palmerston North (the position being left vacant by the tenth hottest […]
Two new faces for Labour line up
Yesterday two more bright young things were confirmed as Labour candidates for the 2008 general election: Kate Sutton in Epsom and Hamish McDouall […]
Australia ends 10-year Kyoto exile
From the Guardian: “Australia yesterday joined the fold of rich countries committed to tackling climate change by signing the Kyoto agreement to limit […]
A bird in the hand is worth two in the provinces
Fran O’Sullivan is not known as a critic of our pollies from the right. So imagine my surprise when catching up on my […]
Tell the panel Don & I am not a liar
Spotted yesterday in the Westin Hotel in Auckland’s Viaduct Basin by our orbiting surveillance satellite & Don Brash in a job interview line. […]
Landslide sliding away
The Roy Morgan poll results have been included in the latest rolling poll from Molesworth and Featherston and shows that National – despite […]
Electoral Finance Bill – some sense at last?
I’m not always a fan of Colin Espiner’s work, but thank goodness someone’s injected a bit of sense into this morning’s hysteria over […]
The power of the web
All election addicts are casting their eyes to what is happening in other countries & especially over in Australia and in the States. […]
Reclaiming the high ground of morality and economics
Evan Thornley is a member of the Upper House of the Victorian State Labor govt. He spoke recently at the NZ Labour Party […]
More gossip from the right
Crown Prosecutor Simon Mount is rumoured to be replacing Bob Clarkson for National in Tauranga next election. Which is a bit rough considering […]
Chaos at National
It seems the suggestion of “Deutschland uber alles” as a campaign song has got National’s General Manager Chris Simpson the boot. I also […]
Why’d you do it Chris?
Chris Knox had a good piece in the Dom Post today explaining why he wrote Labour’s new campaign song. Here’s an extract: Good […]
Running like a well oiled machine
Watching party conference made me think of this old ad – when it all lines up great things can happen. Fortunately for Honda […]
Brownlee dazed and confused over election spending
Following on Tane’s post yesterday, it looks like Ger’s in trouble with his Nat bosses over his comments that National would back the […]
Herald farewells fact-check
It looks like Herald journo Audrey Young needs to go back to the basics and check a few facts before going to print. […]
TV One News – oh shame you pakeha palangi
Following a perfectly sensible Cabinet reshuffle story tonight, TV One News must have had this weird rush to the head because they sent […]
First woman CTU president
Congratulations to Helen Kelly, the first woman to lead the Council of Trade Unions. Helen replaces Ross Wilson, who’s been CTU President since […]
The real crime with the Brethren spending
I want to clarify the major difference between the Brethren spending money to elect National and the union’s spending money to elect Labour. […]
Hollow Men new season at Circa 2
Good news for Wellingtonians. It looks like Dean Parker’s play The Hollow Men (based on Nicky Hager’s Don-downing book) has got a new […]
Political suicide on bFM
What is it with National Party leaders and their apparent desire to commit political suicide on bFM? First Don Brash’s sensational harakiri moment […]
John Key’s global humiliation
Too late – John’s humiliation is now global. Here’s the UK Guardian’s blog. “New Zealand’s opposition leader, John Key, the head of the […]
What’s with TV?
The major papers, radio and political blogs picked up John Key’s War is Over story but neither of the main TV channels ran […]
Nats start to pay off debt to Exclusive Brethren
No wonder National’s education policy (what we know of it so far, anyway) includes more money for private schools. I know a staff […]
Cyber hypocrisy
All the fuss created by one Rory English, son of National’s deputy leader Bill, exposes some very real and concerning issues. Firstly, just […]
The more things change…
Had to chuckle at Karl du Fresne in the Dom this morning who wrote, as if things were particularly different now, “Under the […]
TradeMe talk turns political
A reader has just alerted us that there’s a political discussion raging on a thread over at the TradeMe message boards. Looks like […]
He’s whatever you want him to be – except if you’re a worker
John Key’s swallowed a lot of rats to make National look electable: nuclear free, war in Iraq, fighter jets, paid parental leave, climate […]
Cullen finally placed on grassy knoll?
Headline in today’s Dompost “Labour blamed for edgy market”. Yes, the perpetually grumpy business community are blaming Labour for the unsettling volatility of […]