Garth McVicar – racist
Here’s a quiz. Can you name the one killing that has seen Sensible Sentencing’s barking mad Garth McVicar support the killer and argue, in […]
Social issues
Howard – some advice on what questions to ask
Yesterday, Howard Broad made statements about the targets of the SIG (Special Investigation Group) to National Radio. Interview with Howard Broad on his […]
Shameful
And so the Maori Party’s sell-out of its own people continues. Hot on the heels of the party’s vote to take money out […]
Police Special Investigations – A fundamental lack of humanity
Aside from all the democratic, political and moral issues raised by the Police’s behaviour, there is a fundamental lack of humanity in their […]
No Right Turn: Police State
No Right Turn has written in his cogent style on the police spy issue. With the kind permission of No Right Turn, I’ve […]
Judith Collins – thoughtless idiot
Nothing is quite as important to a democracy as activist groups that engage in peaceful protest for change. In the past these are […]
Back in another life
I’ve actually had time to start reading blogs again. As some people are probably aware (mostly the climate change deniers), my first degree […]
Valuing children
I know I won’t be alone in being disappointed in the results of the Unicef survey, which says that “New Zealand has an […]
Calculating
Kids need fun, politicians need to think
It seems like only yesterday that we listened to arguments about how exams unfairly punished some students. The National Party initiated the NCEA […]
Minister of Education lies to teachers
Here’s Anne Tolley telling teachers before the election that they would not be covered by the fire at will legislation. Turns out she […]
Incompetent or just undemocratic or both?
No Right Turn points out in What’s in the urgency motion? exactly how much of shambles the NACT government is. At present they […]
Ad rant
I despair at the mentality behind this ad. Why should universities, which are all publically-owned, be advertising to try and take students off […]
Drinking Liberally – Christchurch
Matthew Hooton calls Drinking Liberally ‘a trendy leftie clique’. Well, I’m not sure I would agree with mad Matt on the ‘clique’ bit, […]
Garth McVicar
Sensible Sentencing Trust spokesman Garth McVicar’s analysis of prisons today: “Under our present prison policy the inmates are basically running the prison” Why […]
The housing question
Good housing is a foundation of a healthy society, and it is something that New Zealand has long lacked. Despite leading the world […]
More upgrades
I’ve added two front-end features to the site. Automatic comment closing and a WSIWYG comment editor. Comments get automatically closed on posts older […]
Attention turns to local government
Seems the commentators are definately picking local government as one of the issues to watch in terms of how the new Nationaladministration handles […]
Kids set back children’s franchise 100 years
The results are in from the NZ Post-sponsored Kids Voting project, and while it’s a worthy project it nonetheless shows why we don’t […]
‘Cos I say so
Following Tony “cos I say so” Ryall’s media success with his plan to cut down waiting lists using the King Canute model of […]
Ryall: do it or else
Health Minister Tony Ryall’s first policy will be to impose maximum waiting times for hospital emergency departments. No word on extra funding for […]
Labour’s lessons
54,982 votes, 2.3% of the total. That was difference in the election. If Labour had lost 55,000 fewer votes to National (it lost […]
Final results in
The official count, including specials has been released. The Greens have picked up another seat on specials at National’s cost. Kennedy Graham will […]
Minnows
I always love reading the 100 Word Blog. So few words and such a high degree of clarity. Richard has surpassed himself with […]
DL Palmy next Friday
Labour’s bright new star and youngest MP, Jacinda Arden will be speaking at Drinking Liberally Palmerston North next Friday (I’ll do a reminder […]
Wellington party vote breakdown
The Wellingtonista has a cool post up with a breakdown of Left vs Right voting patterns in Wellington this election. The map above […]
The Bard offers chance for new Minister
This afternoon I read with a degree of surprise that Shakespeare’s days as standard classroom fare could be numbered: Shakespeare’s plays and other […]
He’ll make us ruch as well as thuck
One Aussie view of our election.
What will happen with the specials?
There are about 240,000 special votes still be be counted. That’s about 11% of the vote in total. Special voters include large numbers […]
Musical interlude for John
I’m a money lender I have fortunes upon fortunes Take my hand for tender I am tortured, ever tortured And if you don’t […]
Damn close election. Now the coalition fun starts
That was incredibly close. National plus Act plus probably Peter Dunne have scraped a small majority. How close is shown in the election […]
Election Night Live Blogging: The Live Post
If the existence or nature of this post confuses you hopefully you will find the answer over here. 7.01pm Ok here we go! […]
Election Night Live Blogging: The Explanatory Post
Thanks to the Standardistas for giving me a method of distraction for the evening. I’m usually to be found at The Hand Mirror, […]
Contrast the ways of ‘democracy’
I’m happy to say that when I crawled out of my sickbed and voted this morning, it was nothing like the photos on […]
Making the decision
Have you still not decided who you’ll vote for? The final poll shows the race between a National/ACT/United Future or a Labour/Green/Progressive/Maori government […]
What a National/ACT Govt would mean
National/ACT would would implement several major policies: – it would weaken work rights. You could be fired without justification in the first 90 […]