Steve shuffles off his mortal coil
Protecting workers’ rights, protecting ACC, safeguarding jobs, public services, and SOEs, opposing privatisation. These are all important fights. But it’s a crime we’re […]
Steve Pierson
The praiseworthy and the pitiful
Adrian Orr and Brian Fallow‘s pieces on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and the economics of long-term investment in a declining market. A+ […]
Softening up
A few points on the ACC issue and one on Kiwirail. Nick Smith says that, with assets of $10 and liabilities of $21 […]
Fiddling while the world burns
The latest New Scientist brings together the work of thousands of scientists to describe what would happen to the world if the global […]
Worrying about the big stuff
In the age of the media politician, where catch-phrases are given more attention than laws and good politics is awarded more points by […]
Speculation laffs
The Atlases shrug, ‘I dunno’
In the Dom yesterday, Hollow man star Richard Long was full of praise for the Key’s PR team, who managed the Jobs Summit. […]
Welcome to the real ACT party
This their slogan: “ACT – the liberal party” This is the reality: “We’ve got too hung up on people’s rights.”
National’s real rolling maul
You know what we haven’t heard Key talk about in a long time? Closing the wage gap with Australia. Now he’s in power, is […]
DL Christchurch, change of speaker, plus other DL events
Labour leader Phil Goff will now be speaking at DL Christchurch this Thursday. Therese Arsenau has moved to a later date. When: 7pm, March […]
Let the Nats know that women matter too
National/ACT’s record for women so far has been dismal . Their work rights have been slashed by the Fire at Will law (women […]
Pragmatically, the tax changes need to go
The debate around whether we should go through with National’s tax adjustments (they’re only cuts for the rich, they’re increases for middle and […]
You’ve got to know to understand (and be able to talk about it)
In the greatest economic crisis in a lifetime, we remain the only country in the world whose government has done nothing to try […]
Bottoms up, Bill
It’s said that, once upon a time, Bill Ralston had a social conscience. He still claims to be a leftie at heart. If […]
Remember the big picture, Fran
Fran, you’re pretty smart, you can do maths, and you understand the economy. You’re ideology is fundamentally flawed but at least you’ve got […]
Launch of DL – Dunedin
I’ve just got an email on the launch of the Drinking Liberally chapter in Dunedin: Come raise your spirits as you raise a […]
The praiseworthy and the pitiful
Trevor Mallard for getting himself into one of those complex, multi-blog conversations and pulling it off. A Started when he commented on a Kiwiblog post […]
No, you leave YOUR ideology at the door
There’s all this rubbish at the moment about people moving beyond ideology. At the Jobs Summit, attendees were harangued to ‘leave your ideology […]
Emigration still trendy
Herald: “Almost 1000 a week leaving for Australia. The flood of migrants across the Tasman continues unabated, with latest figures showing New Zealanders […]
The cost of doing (next to) nothing
Bill English is holding the country’s purse like an old woman on the subway. Far from doing what every other country is doing, injecting […]
Views from the Job Summit
– “Very clear that this is all about showing a consensus behind Key. That’s the mood among my colleagues. Seen some unionists about, […]
Previewing the jobs summit
Tomorrow, John Key’s much anticipated jobs summit will take place. It’s a big deal, it’s got a logo and everything. Unfortunately, John seems […]
A component of a component
A regular reader of The Standard, Adders, has sent us in this cartoon, inspired by Key’s answers in the patsy interview with the […]
Electives
If the 20 new elective surgery theatres Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced were going to be funded with new money, I would […]
Conferences are wasteful, unless you’re hosting
Lyndon Hood does it again: The National Government has cancelled another conference, with Prime Minister John Key describing it as “a waste of […]
What’s Bill planning?
Yesterday, Finance Minister Bill English made a big deal over the loss the New Zealand Superannuation Fund incurred last year. When you don’t […]
Don’t kill the Cullen Fund
Michael Littlewood has made a career of advocating superannuation privatisation and is part of an international organisation called Pension Reforms dedicated to the […]
The ink’s red, there’s less of it, and no-one’s reading it
New circulation figures show that the number of papers sold by the major dailies continues to slide. In 2007, the big three (Herald, […]
DL Wellington with Grant Robertson
Under Patrick’s iron fist, things seem much more organised with DL Wellington. For just about the first time ever, there will be a […]
Fitzsimons to step down from Greens’ co-leadership
Jeanette has announced she will be stepping down at co-leader of the Greens. Technically, she will just not be putting her name up […]
Being stupid on the economy
Brian Fallow has some extraordinarily good analysis of the economic situation in his piece today. Here’s some important passages (and my, unfortunately, extensive […]
Granny’s baked some patsies for you, dearie
Can you spot the question that wasn’t asked of Key by Armstrong and Young in their six page interview with him in today’s […]
The praiseworthy and the pitiful
The praiseworthy and the pitiful is our weekly post on the little things that caught our eye but didn’t lead to a full […]
Thankfully, the election isn’t tomorrow
When John Key and Pita Sharples were jostled by two Maori men opposed to the National-Maori Party alliance, the thing that stuck in […]
Tories bulldoze human rights, your rights
The Attorney-General, National’s Chris Finalyson, has declared that the ‘3 strikes and you’re out’ Bill that National/ACT (and Finlayson himself) are about to vote […]
DL Christchurch with Therese Arsenau
Drinking Liberally Christchurch has its first meeting of the new year on March 5, with political commentator and academic Therese Arsenau to speak. […]