The Sensible Centrist
Tracey Watkins is said by some of her colleagues to be spending an ‘unseemly’ about of time hanging out in John Key’s office, […]
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The Standard Week August 8-15
Quite a quiet week after the excitement of the secret agenda tapes last week. The Tories are keeping up their hunt for the […]
The Standard turns one
Today’s our first birthday. A year ago I had the privilege of the first post. It was on John Key’s contradictory statements about […]
The Standard Week: August 1-8
What a week. National has been in meltdown over the secret recordings. Bill English’s incredible initial reaction seemed like the launch of a […]
Hilarious
Greens on National’s plan to borrow to build more roads: “Lonely dinosaur seeks white elephant“
The Standard Week: 25 July-1 August
Another week of gonzo journalism and you can understand why people get turned off politics. While the press gallery concentrated on which of them was most […]
Multiple orgasms
If John Key’s feeling a little nervous about repeating his “under a Labour Government I lead” gaffe at this weekend’s National Party conference, […]
Trust me
David Farrar says of a scene in Dark Knight ‘I would have voted ‘yes”. Without giving away any of the plot, that means […]
Who you callin’ a moron Sunday magazine?
The Ultimate Flip-Flop
This straight from Public Address – Guest writer Simon Pound: John Key has announced the adoption of yet another flagship Labour policy having […]
Ambitious leadership
(hattip: Kiwipundit)
The Standard Week: 18-25 July
The big story of the week is National’s work rights policy that does nothing to further workers’ rights and actually undermines them in […]
So what is a subprime then?
The phrase “subprime” seems to have become part of our universal vocabulary – reflecting global uncertainty, events beyond our control, and financial complexities. […]
The Standard Week: July 11-18
Finally, policy. National has two policies which, by all rights, ought to be election losers: the 90 day no rights policy and the […]
Oops
On infinity
[more ‘Tom The Dancing Bug’ comics here]
The Standard Week: July 4 – July 11
Every time Bill English goes on Agenda, he lets a bit of National policy slip (anyone who thinks it’s an accident probably also […]
The Standard Week: June 27-July 4
A big week in politics. The rail system is back in public ownership as KiwiRail, Nicky Hager exposed Brand Key as a Crosby […]
Reminder: Drinking Liberally Auckland
Remember that Drinking Liberally Auckland is having its inaugural session tomorrow with David Slack. Note it in your schedules and tell your left-leaning […]
Geek’s view
On the odd occasion I have time to read outside of the confines of The Standard and its ever increasing brawl of entertaining […]
Standard Week: 20-27 June 2008
Three events this week epitomised the benefits of nine years of centre-left government: the continuing fall in benefit numbers, the Government’s moves to […]
Enlightening debate
In Parliament yesterday: Anderton: “Has the Minister received any reports on how many National Party members it takes to change a light bulb?” Cullen: […]
Blog reader survey
Dear Blog Reader, My name is Andrew Cushen, and I am conducting a survey of New Zealand Political Blog Readers. This survey is part […]
The Standard Week – 13-20 June
Both major parties show-boated over getting tough on crime this week. The only difference being Labour actually had policy; National, just slogans. We generally steer […]
Oops
For everyone who says apostrophes don’t matter, try telling that to the Bioethics Council.
WhaleOil – Technically Challenged
I was just checking the links to the standard and I see that Whale is being his usual self. It looks like he […]
The Standard Week – 06-13 June
Another week of shadow boxing, as National tried to keep its policy secret and hints leaked out. But it gave us the chance […]
GWOT comics
Ah, Iraq invasion satire. thank god that war is over, eh John? [GWOT – Global War On Terror, official acronym. You can’t make […]
Why Key really wants super-fast broadband
Remember National’s broadband ‘plan’ that reads like it was drawn up on the back of a napkin? Notice how the only gains they […]
Introducing the Standard Week
We know that if you miss a couple of days of The Standard you can have 15 posts to read. Even though we try […]
Down Under Feminists’ Carnival
Hoyden About Town have just written to let us know that they’re hosting the first edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival. They’re calling it […]
Cullen to speak at Drinking Liberally
Drinking Liberally’s Facebook group has just sent out the invitation to their second event. I don’t know how they’ve swung it, but they’ve […]
Free doco screening, 6pm tonight, Wellington
If you’re in Wellington, head along to the City Gallery tonight at 6pm to check out the free screening of a documentary on […]
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 […]
Bloody Marys for breakfast
Nevermind has this: “Our favourite National Party Hack unbiased political commentator weighs in on rat hygiene when the Bloody Marys it seems he had for […]
The Ministry of National Affairs
Here’s a good ten minutes from the middle of Winston’s post budget address yesterday. The highlight is around four minutes in, on National’s burgeoning bureaucracy: Did […]