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In a perceptive potshot at the perennial broadcasting gnome, Paul Holmes, Jane Bowron in her Dominion Post 'Televiews' piece of 13 September described the aforementioned wee fella's return to TV One with Whatever happen to.? in unflattering terms. It seems that Bowron is unimpressed by…
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Earlier this week I posted on National's attempted inoculation of the "nuclear issue". Chris Trotter's just written a related analysis of Key's comments to the NZ/US Partnership Forum. In it Key states: "I have little interest in debates, either economic or political, that simply relitigate…
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One of John Key's first rebranding exercises after he took over the National Party was to dump Wayne Mapp from his position as PC Eradicator and try to distance the party from some of the more reactionary rhetoric that had become its stock-in-trade under Don…
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Feeling guilty after watching An Inconvenient Truth? Want to do your bit to help save the planet but don't have the cash to buy a hybrid? (and too lazy to walk or ride a bike?). Perhaps you should consider becoming a "hypermiler". The best of…
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In her defense, I don't remember there being a chemistry component to Play School.
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Ok. To celebrate The Standard's one month anniversary, and to thank you for visiting dear reader, we're going to run a competition. Forget Deal or No Deal. That's for chumps. Today we're launching New Zealand's hottest online "gameshow" (we use the term liberally) - "Lockwood:…
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He's been thieving her policies and now he's thieving her words. When will John Key say something original? Colin Espiner notes that while for days, Key has been baying for O'Connor's blood, yesterday on Breakfast Key did an abrupt about-face. As if to signal what…
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A reader just sent me a link to a piece in The Guardian entitled: "First world results on a third world budget". It's an investigation of Michael Moore's claim in his recent documentary, Sicko, that Cuba's health system puts America's to shame on just an…
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Captions welcome. Via nznationalparty on flickr
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The LA Times has a story today about Freegans - "a growing subculture of people who have reduced their spending habits and live off consumer waste". I'm probably not quite ready to forage for my food just yet, but the article's a good read. The…
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Congratulations to Unite for ending youth rates at McDonalds. Not that you'll get that story from the media coverage, which gives the impression McDonald's just decided to give up youth rates to be nice and fails to even mention the role of union campaigns like…
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a) stays on tour? b) stays on tour until there's political capital to be gained by raising it? Colin Espiner is worth a read: Sure, it wasn't the smartest thing in the world to invite a suspended prison guard along on the trip... But it's…
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Did anyone else see the anti-John Key posters in Wellington yesterday morning? It was every National Party spin doctor's worst nightmare: a picture of John Key looking rattled and wrinkled, placed on a black background next to the words that will no doubt come to…
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I dropped into the National Party's Kiwiblog again last week and I must say it looks like party insider David Farrar may well be losing his "mojo". I mean really? He's been comparing Helen Clark's policies to "gassing the Jews"? and running lines like: "the…
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Twenty years ago this year, the fourth Labour government passed legislation that made New Zealand nuclear free. At the time, the legislation was controversial and was opposed by National. Jim Bolger ever called it "an exercise in futility". In the intervening years, parties opposed to…