Liable to suffer
When confronted by media, both Key and English immediately described the secret agenda recording as “Pathetic”, despite being doorstepped in different cities. They, […]
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No, Bill.
I felt a pang of pity for Bill English tonight as I watched TV3 roll out another secret tape. After all, “winning is […]
Speak no evil
Word around the traps is that this week Key and English have added veteran financial reporter Rod Oram to their list of journos […]
Farce
It was with wry amusement I read Bill Ralston’s revisionist history of New Zealand superannuation today. According to Bill it was Muldoon who […]
Attack on democracy
National have quietly released their policy on electoral law and have promised to abolish the Maori seats once treaty claims are finished, repeal […]
That meeting
The more I think about it the more it seems to me that John Key’s meeting with Rail America needs some more explaining. […]
Murky
We know John Key bought shares in Tranzrail on May 7 2003. We know he then met with Rail America as a representative […]
Go the drivers
Wellington bus drivers are striking this morning and good on them. I was happy to find my own way to work today. The […]
Who’s sorry now?
Anyone remember back in July Key accused Clark of misleading the house over his involvement in Tranzrail and asked for an apology? Just […]
Derailing the issue
National has released their statement about John Key’s shady dealings in Tranzrail shares and unsurprisingly it’s another attempt at misdirection. As I’ve said […]
ACT’s fifth Candidate?
The word around the traps is that ACT will be announcing the name of its mystery 5th list candidate at its Law and […]
You dicks
Anyway, Tane sees the article on Stuff that the election date is going to be announced. He puts up a post about it […]
The Greens’ billboards, too good?
I’m impressed with the Green’s new billboard campaign and I’m pretty certain it’ll work as it is clean and effective marketing and reminds […]
Nats’ adman an objectivist fruitloop
If you’ve caught yourself asking why the Nat’s billboards are so bad, then Jafa Pete has the answer. Their adman, Glenn Jameson, is […]
Look. Over there!
A friend has just rung to excitedly inform me that National’s conservation policy has now also been released by Trevor Mallard. That means […]
Market failure
An article on Stuff today shows “Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale”. It’s based on research by Dr. Jamie Pearce […]
Not good enough
For any of you who thought the sharp end of capitalism was a nice place to be, the front page story in today’s […]
MIA
Who’s been missing from Kiwiblog’s comments section lately?
Open democracy?
According to the Sunday Star Times the Sensible Sentencing Trust and Family First have decided to refuse to comply with the Electoral Finance […]
Another leftie in the ‘sphere
We finally get to welcome Chris Trotter to the blogosphere as he’s started a new blog at http://www.policy.net.nz/blog/ I’ve often thought Trotter’s solid […]
Did you say “wages”, John?
Watching Key on Breakfast this morning I was surprised to see him talking about the need for higher wages (about two thirds of […]
Leave it to the pros
Thanks to what I can only presume is a technical glitch at the Listener there’s online access to a lot more of their […]
Pulling the ladder up behind him
A lot of you won’t remember it but there was a time in this country when being on a benefit wasn’t seen as […]
A hard place
Kudos to Crosby Textor for doing such a good job of changing the secret agenda debate to the issue of who taped the […]
Take the money and run
I just read Gordon Campbell’s latest Scoop column about the omnibus tax bill and quickly followed it with Frog’s piece on the matter […]
Follow through
Over at Kiwiblog David Farrar has found an amusing error made by the Herald online in its politics section which has listed several […]
Anti-abuse law in action
A front page story on Stuff at the moment is about a woman who systematically beat her child and has been successfully prosecuted […]
Murketing
Gordon Campbell has an interesting take on the political PR we’re seeing from National in his latest Scoop column. In it he quotes […]
Bullies
Why is it that the right are so much more litigious than the left? The recent example of Crosby Textor threatening legal action […]
The clean man
Has anyone else noticed John Key’s absence from the media in the last few days? I finally clicked to it while listening to […]
Busted
Nicky Hager’s piece in today’s Sunday Star Times has confirmed what we all suspected: Crosby Textor are the creators of Brand Key. For […]
Misdirection
There’s a technique that sits at the heart of conjuring tricks called misdirection the act of drawing attention away from the trick itself. […]
Cake and eat it
I’ve noticed a new trend in the right’s spin lately (apart from their wholesale theft of campaign scripts) – the ‘have your cake […]
Deja vu
I was having a look through some old campaign PR yesterday and found this gem: It seems John Key ripped off more than […]
Hit and Run
I put a comment on one of Steve’s posts a few days ago and he suggested I put it up as a post […]
Yet more government waste
Following a series of National Party questions to the house the Herald has discovered the Labour government has spent nearly $27K on sausage […]