No, I’ll pay, I insist
So trucking companies are unwilling to pay for the extra damage that 53 tonne trucks will do. Companies trying to privatise the gains and […]
Talking union
Eddie’s piece on the importance of joining your union if you want to avoid a pay cut reminded me of another Peter Seeger classic:
Wake up
The Global Climate Wake-up Call is happening today. It’s a grassroots way for people to say we want our leaders to do more […]
Return of the Neanderthals
From Paul Krugman’s review of Skidelsky’s latest book on Keynes: “At research seminars, people don’t take Keynesian theorising seriously anymore; the audience starts […]
Are you worth less this year?
Right now, spurred on by the hypocritical words of Bill English and John Key, employers in the public and private sectors are saying they […]
Nats’ ETS a polluters’ charter
Rod Oram, as usual, has set the standard in commentary with his piece on the National-Maori Party ETS. The full article is here […]
A long time between drinks
The latest Roy Morgan poll puts National down 5% and Labour up 4%. Still a big gap, but it seems at last New […]
English owes us disclosure
I’ve posted before on “mainstream” media editorials, their variable quality and the paradox (in this world of blogging) of their anonymity. Every now […]
One of these things is not like the other VII
One of these things is not the other, One of these things is not quite the same… Can you guess which one is […]
First we sack you then we spy on you
The Sunday Star Times reports [page 4, currently offline] that Telecom has hired a private investigation company, Corporate Investigations, to spy on the […]
Politics more than politicking
I get sick of hearing our illustrious fourth estate refer to some piece of politicking as ‘good politics’. Who decides what’s ‘good politics’? The commentators, […]
CCD Myth: The planets are warming
We haven’t seen much of this myth in NZ. However it shows some good examples of selective reading of news articles and papers […]
Sniffing the breeze on climate change
Climate change and the Emissions Trading Scheme are front and centre of political comment at the moment it seems. I thought this item […]
Open Country polluting our rivers too
The Talleys and National Party-linked Open Country Cheese is currently trying to run its factory without its workers as it attempts to bust […]
CCD Myth: 1998 and all that
If you are in love with the concept that 1998 was the warmest year on record (wrong by the way), don’t watch this. […]
Peak metals
We’re probably all now aware of the idea of peak oil. The earth is finite, and we can’t suck an infinite amount of […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland (again)
In the second part of our double header for Drinking Liberally this month we’ve got director of Rethinking Crime & Punishment Kim Workman […]
A solar future?
You can read more about it here.
Lyndon on ACT
Found this gem at Fighting Talk. Lyndon Hood examines the act of leaking. Lyndon Hood: Act Doesn’t Feel Climate Heat Click to enlarge […]
Fed farmers frothing
A virulent attack on Greenpeace in a press release by Federated Farmers president, Don Nicholson, convinces me that Greenpeace are hitting the mark. […]
Corporate welfare
I’ve got no problem with the government helping out those who are genuinely in need but forcing the taxpayer fork out $400 million […]
Nick Smith’s dirty dealing
Labour’s Charles Chauvel has released the paper records of Labour’s attempts to agree a bi-partisan ETS with National. In total, Labour presented three […]
“What else can I do?”, asks Blinky Bill.
We told him here months ago – acknowledge what everybody knows: that he lives in Wellington with his family, and he should claim […]
Corporate bully-boys step it up a level
The Open Country Cheese dispute is underway. Workers are striking against the bosses’ attempts to casualise their hours and reduce their conditions. They […]
After Edge of Darkness
I just read that the Troy Kennedy Martin, the screenwriter responsible for Edge of Darkness died earlier this week. I wanted to mark […]
Lhaws: ‘look at me! I crave your attention’
Lhaws puts on his usual prima donna act over the H which is set to leave Whanganui an uninhabitable, post-apocalyptic wasteland: “I have […]
Photos from the Bridgeman lockout
Some photos from the picketline at Bridgeman Concrete in East Tamaki, where workers have been locked out indefinitely unless they submit to a […]
Breaking English
Bill English is not holding up well to the persistent questions put to him in Parliament about shuffling around his financial appearance to […]
Apps.gov
‘In these tough economic times, the government must buy smarter,’ said Vivek Kundra, the US federal chief information officer, as he unveiled the […]
It isn’t a game
People who treat politics as a game annoy me. People who see it all in terms of power and cliques and scoring points […]
Wee gripes: It’s not easy being green
Westpac has this ad campaign about how they’re doing their bit to reduce their environmental impact. The dumb thing is they make begin […]
Whanganui
Here’s something to look forward to New Zealand. Another round of that trumped up little egotist stirring racist populism to get himself in […]
Why the Redundancy Protection Bill matters
Over at Red Alert, Darien Fenton tells the story of just one of the thousands of workers currently being laid off without redundancy […]
The bigots beneath
Last night, Sandra Goudie, the big-mouth of the National Party caucus, said the words out loud that the Nats usually keep in their […]
Foreshore nomoreshore
Two chilling articles from last week’s Guardian Weekly just finished, both about the consequences of the world’s water getting warmer faster than expected. […]
Contempt for democracy
Gerry Brownlee in Question Time yesterday. He’s asked a question, just sits there and refuses to answer. Doesn’t even open his mouth, just […]