Key has blamed a soldier being killed in Afghanistan for the limo affair. This is just an attempt by Key to protect himself from criticism by hiding behind a soldier's death. This is just sickening. The very worst kind of politics from a man who…
I've been meaning to write about the Salvation Army's superb State of the Nation report, but I haven't managed to more than skim read it1, let alone put a post together on it. So I thought I'd combine my few thoughts so far on it…
I should have posted this in the weekend, but if you have a spare 12 minutes some time in the day, do yourself a favour and watch this video. We know from history, and from our own recent experience, that tax cuts don't cause growth.…
It can be depressing to see a week of the government on the ropes and then see polls showing National with an apparently commanding lead. But lets go beyond the shallow analysis offered by the talking heads ('National's still well ahead of Labour, nothing to…
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