As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
After blissful isolation in the bush, it's a shock to come back and read of more earthquakes, the government bullying the media, port workers having to strike to get an inflation-rate pay raise, more road deaths, and today's balloon tragedy in Carterton. Not to mention…
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
I'm unhappy to be back in the muggy Auckland weather. After blobbing out in sunny Invercargill and Dunedin I don't want to back at work!. I see that they're calling it a drought down there. I have left, it is now permissible to rain in…
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here I don't know about you, but I find it most inconvenient that just as I have some leisure hours to spend blogging about politics and…
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here Hard-hitting Herald journo Bevan Hurley reports: Wedding bells have been ringing out across the country in what's shaping up as a summer of celebrity love. All…
I read Colin James's piece on the need for a resilient economy/society in yesterday's ODT. A competent explanation of a risks facing New Zealand and an acknowledgement that New Zealand needs to design itself to withstand and exploit them. Nothing new to readers of The…
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
An earlier post by Mike Smith on inequality referred to a claim by Geoff Vincent that 12% of the taxpayers were paying 49% of the the taxes. Now this was patently a spinners interpolation on the tax data and shouldn't be part of the debate..…