National seeks to stop free speech
Vernon Small reports today that National party blogger David Farrar has taken out a complaint against the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s registration […]
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The Dummies’ Guide to National’s wage policy
I never really understood how National planned to make wages grow because every time our man John Key is asked about our wage-gap […]
Curia-ser and Curia-ser
You’ll probably know about the rumour around the traps that blogger David Farrar is running his polling company Curia out of National Party […]
Say chee$e
At the supermarket earlier this week I was browsing the aisles and noticed the price of cheese. It seems now that for a […]
Dull
I haven’t had time to do a thorough analysis of Clark’s speech but from a quick once-over I can say with certainty that […]
DPF takes the moral highground
As you will know National Party Blogger David Farrar gave us a wee razzing for publishing an out of date list of Bob […]
Same old faces, same old tactics
Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces […]
Spinning the spin.
Ruth Laugeson has an article in the Sunday Star Times about the increased numbers of communications staff employed by ministries. Entitled “Spinning govt […]
Shadbolt campaign funded by Hollow Men
Remember how I asked who was funding Tim Shadbolt’s campaign to “bring down the government”? Turns out the Southland Times was interested too […]
Too far.
People often ask us at The Standard why we don’t post under our real names. Tonight Whaleoil has provided a damn good answer […]
Damned if you do…
The Herald has an interesting article about shift work posted today pointing out the impact shift work has on workers’ families. The article […]
Interesting times…
It seems the cats at newzblog have decided to bring our old mate Robinsod on board as a blogger and his first shot […]
Follow the money
I see Shadbolt is back on the blackmail bandwagon again with today’s Herald claiming he’s aiming to break the Electoral Finance Act (though […]
What’s National cooking up for 2008?
Well, I saw my first Farrar billboard in the real two days ago and I gotta tell you I laughed. I was with […]
DPF’s bloody good deal
There’s plenty of comment about Davey’s/National’s Billboards here and at Blogblog so I’ll not bore you with my analysis of these dreadful things. […]
Nats ruin the party
Well I might be drawing a long bow there but last night’s press gallery party was the worst I’ve ever been to and […]
Rules of the game
Just had a read of Colin Espiner’s latest opinion piece. He certainly doesn’t pull any punches. Here’s what he has to say about […]
Poetic justice?
Remember when the National Party threatened the Standard with copyright infringement? Nothing ever came of it of course because we had the fair […]
John Key’s $50,000 anniversary present
Just in case you don’t know, today is John Key’s first anniversary as National Party leader and his backers have given him the […]
Ask not what your country can do for you, DPF…
Interesting to see National Party blogger David Farrar is inciting his readers to start a political party to bypass/oppose the Electoral Finance Bill. […]
History repeats, part II
There’s a famous line from Joyce’s Ulysses in which the main protagonist Stephen Dedalus states “history is a nightmare from which I am […]
2008’s big issue?
An interesting piece in yesterday’s Molesworth and Featherston (off line): Labour will pick a fight over workplace law reform. Trevor Mallard is in […]
Pryde of the South
Interesting to see EPMU President Don Pryde has thrown his hat in the ring for the Dunedin South seat and has the full […]
Relief?
Look Mike, I know you know about the polls and I know you’re probably thinking about what you can do to turn things […]
Banks? Thanks…
So you just had to do it didn’t you Auckland… And a shout out to publicaddress for the clip (there are more here)
A disturbance in the force?
I might be coming to this belatedly (forgive me if you’ve already noticed it) but it seems the left/right blog war has heated […]
Land of the free?
WTF? I might be a bit behind the times on this one but I’ve just come across the tasering of US journalism student […]
Has DPF lost his mojo?
I dropped into the National Party’s Kiwiblog again last week and I must say it looks like party insider David Farrar may well […]
National fights for its right to outspend others?
I was having a look at David Farrar’s National Party blog this morning and I came across an interesting comment from one of […]