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The slow round of extended family xmas locations has this year located Lyn and I in Christchurch. Which has made for an interesting boxing day with a certain amount of rocking that is not attributable to the results of the gorging the day before. I've…
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Well 2010 has been a year for some political surprises such as Brown's landslide victory over Banks and Celia's win in Wellington and some not so surprising moments too such as Gerry and John's lies about the Hobbit and the announcement of ACC privatisation just…
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With only a couple of days left in 2010 the Herald has released its latest digipoll showing a slight closing of the gap between National and Labour. But that's not the interesting part. What is interesting is the preferred Prime Minister polling. As usual it…
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On Christmas Eve, our SAS soldiers in Afghanistan killed two security guards, wounded two others, and arrested 15. None of these people was involved in any terrorist activity. Did the SAS act negligently or was it an unfortunate accident? The Kabul Police want to investigate…
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First published, 21st October 2010, after Peter Jackson first claimed the Actors' Equity blacklisting of the Hobbit had created a serious risk that the production would move abroad. Over the last couple of weeks Actors Equity has been quietly negotiating for a minimum standards contract…
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New Zealand's most infamous anti-Ambassador Paul Henry has shamed us all once again. On TVNZ's Breakfast this morning, Henry asked John Key (at 6'30" into the interview) of our Governor General "Is he even a New Zealander" (Satyanand was born in NZ) and could the…
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If you haven't read this blog post by Charles Stross yet, and you're a science and/or science fiction nutter (or just interested), then you should probably do so. I'm going to take it as read that the idea of space colonization isn't unfamiliar; domed cities on…
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From Reading the Maps. Republished from the original with permission. In the twenty-first century we are continually being urged to register and express our emotions. The days of the stiff upper lip and suffering in silence have well and truly gone, as unctuous TV talk…
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The idea of this little series of posts is to look at the major areas of government activity and have an objective look at how National is doing - both against their own promises and things that we hold important. Let's start with the economy,…
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Back in 2008 it was clear what National wanted to do with wages and if Tane was still around he'd be able to say "I told you so" but instead we've resurrected one of his posts which does pretty much the same thing... The National…
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