Questionable
I was shocked, shocked, when I pulled up Kiwiblog just now and there wasn’t a long post of quotes by political commentators on […]
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Get a padded bicycle seat, save taxpayers money
No Right Turn has been investigating John Key’s baby: Back in February, Prime Minister John Key came up with a bold and radical […]
A place in the sun
Another bad week is about to end for John Key with a mammoth defeat of his handpicked Mt Albert candidate. What’s that now, […]
Media irresponsible to name her
I haven’t really wanted to get involved in the whole debate surrounding Richard Worth. It’s horrible and messy, and makes me feel sick […]
Back to basics
Radio NZ is playing John Key saying that, following the letter from the woman in the sexual harassment saga, he has “washed his […]
John’s recession-buster: a party, in 2 years
On Monday, John Key promised he would make a ‘major tourism announcement’ today. Apparently, we’ve just had it. In a speech today, Key […]
National: targeting the victim
So National’s latest tactic in the Richard Worth affair appears to have been to leak the identity of the first complainant against Richard […]
Where’s the trap?
Yeah. Great honey-trap. – First, target a minister that doesn’t matter with a woman who is openly Labour – Second, delete the most […]
A sign of things to come
A few facts unpin a lot of spin
The Tories are throwing all the muck they can at Goff. Trying to get him to back off on the Worth thing. Their latest is […]
Crosby – Posturing with little substance
Lynton Crosby of the political spinners Crosby/Textor, who ‘advised’ both John Key and Don Brash, has finally given up on trying to pursue […]
Audrey Young: Goff right, Key wrong
The Herald asked this morning whose word was more credible on the Worth issue, John Key or Phil Goff. Their political editor Audrey […]
Productive debate
There was nothing in the Budget for productivity. Education, the foundation of producitivty, was actually cut when you take into account inflation and […]
The Tory nose-dive roundup
I never seen a government crash so quickly, so hard. The Standard was saying before the election that Key was a two-faced facade […]
The plot thickens?
At his post-cabinet press conference, John Key continued to determinedly fly in a death spiral over the Worth affair. The journalists asked some […]
Should Key have appointed Worth at all?
On Q+A this morning, Phil Goff was asked by Paul Holmes for more detail on why John Key wasn’t surprised when he took […]
Wait, didn’t he say ‘women’?
There’s still a lot of confusion on the Right, in particular, about the sequence of events in the Worth saga, so I’ve tried […]
Looking forward to the weekend
Will be fun to read the Armstrongs, Rolstons, Laws, Holmes, Hooton and the other assorted rightwingers that besmirch our weekend papers. See them […]
Piggy in the middle
Key is describing himself as ‘piggy in the middle’ in the Worth sexual harassment affair. Says he had two conflicting stories and couldn’t […]
Time for a change
Sorry for the long post. This is my transcript of John Key’s interview with Mary Wilson on Checkpoint last night. It’s just incredible. […]
Slippery
Mary Wilson interviews John Key on Checkpoint. Brilliant. Sean Plunket interviews Richard Prebble and Richard Griffin on Morning Report. Grubby old men. Time […]
Get a shave mate, you’re the PM
If you saw last night’s One News piece on the Worth fiasco, you might have noticed Key looking particularly haggard. This photo doesn’t […]
Rhetoric & Reality 2: Jobs
Before the election National’s “Employment & Workplace Relations” policy set out the principle of “building opportunity for all”, and the need to “Expand […]
Breakfast covers the Worth investigation
First it was Paul Henry and Guyon Espiner. Both agree Key needs to “come clean with the country and give us more detail […]
Worse and worse
This just gets worse for Key. It has emerged that Worth was offering ‘jobs for favours’ for a young woman. Goff passed her […]
Question time
John Key’s making a real hash of this latest Worth scandal. There was the secretive way he went about things yesterday, which is […]
Iz satisfard
hattip: Maia, Anthony Karinski
Update on Worth
From the fuzz: Police confirm that a complaint was made in Auckland two weeks ago and related to a recent alleged incident. Preliminary […]
Cullen’s two cents
Quite rightly, Michael Cullen has avoided getting involved in the debate over National’s starvation diet for the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, known as […]
Sprinters
David Farrar has a post on Kiwiblog listing the fastest risers to become Prime Minister. They are: John Key – 6 years David […]
If you’re gonna cut, make it clean
How titillating. Worth has resigned and he won’t say why. ‘Personal reasons’ eh? Heard that one before. Key’s not talking either. He describes […]
More on Worth?
Just out from the police: An allegation has been made against a sitting member of Parliament. Wellington police are conducting a preliminary investigation […]
Three down
Six months in and John Key has broken three of his eleven “personal guarantees”. Impressive. Click on the image for full size.
Transparency
Strange isn’t it that Key can support transparency yesterday but not today. Political expediency at its worst.
Journalists not falling for Nats’ $8 billion con-job
This part of Vernon Small’s article today deserves an extended quote: “The numbers are stark. If full payments resume in 2020, contributions will […]
Sweet rides
A few weeks back, in the best traditions of tabloid TV, Q+A took time to mention Lockwood’s ride, the macho muscle car Ford […]