Written By: - Date published: 3:23 pm, October 18th, 2007 - 31 comments
Look Mike, I know you know about the polls and I know you’re probably thinking about what you can do to turn things around. Well, I’ve got one little idea. Stop using their language. It’s pretty simple really – I mean it’s not gonna win the game or anything but it’d be a damn good […]
Written By: - Date published: 3:32 pm, September 22nd, 2007 - 5 comments
Symbolism should never be underestimated in life, as it can’t be in sport and politics. Take the Rugby World Cup where the symbolism of the All Blacks has prompted many New Zealanders to scornfully view the French team’s sudden change of playing strip to dark blue. Sacrebleu, what’s going on? This means that, if the […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, September 19th, 2007 - 1 comment
A reader has just alerted us that there’s a political discussion raging on a thread over at the TradeMe message boards. Looks like users there aren’t so keen to trade Helen and Labour for John and the Nats.
Written By: - Date published: 11:33 am, September 6th, 2007 - Comments Off on 130,000 people have enrolled with Kiwisaver
Here’s the press release with a bit more detail.
Written By: - Date published: 3:13 pm, August 31st, 2007 - Comments Off on Mo(o)re on “personal attacks”
Item on Stuff yesterday interviewing Barry Gustafson, the author of His Way, a biography of Robert Muldoon (Auckland University Press, 2000): Professor of politics Barry Gustafson said Miss Clark seldom indulged in personal politics and the attack was a bit unfair. “If anyone has been on the receiving end of some pretty nasty rumours and […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 pm, August 15th, 2007 - Comments Off on Tempo’s Choice
Ian Templeton, doyen of the parliamentary press gallery, was on Close-up this evening talking about the extraordinary 50 years that he’s been getting up close and personal with politicians. Interesting that he named Helen Clark as the best of the bunch of the dozen or so prime ministers that he’s reported on. And remember the […]
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