The cost of doing nothing
The climate change debate is over (apart from a few luntatics of course). The debate is now about what to do, and the […]
Not yours to sell
This video from Phil Twyford, Labour’s spokesperson on the campaign to make sure that Rodney Hide is prevented from buggering Auckland by selling […]
On cultural relativism
It’s a pretty rare thing for a conviction for manslaughter not to lead to some jail time. In the past 28 years, only […]
Nip it in the bud
Reading the Herald on Sunday piece about this senior political figure in the domestic violence dispute, I’m surprised his party hasn’t made him step down […]
On the scrap heap
Call me old fashioned if you will, but I like the idea that reforms of government activity should be concieved and implemented by […]
The great leader
Something about the title of this press release from Peter Dunne yesterday just made me laugh: Call for leadership, vision from pharmacy […]
Heart you too, John
In former journalist John Armstrong’s piece today, he also writes: “a frustration and impatience towards National still displayed by some of the shriller […]
Eventually but not yet
John Armstrong quotes a man who ran into Phil Goff during Labour’s reconnection tour last week: “Listen, mate. You know we voted these […]
Reverse Robin hood
John Key’s policy to get kids into sport turns out to be a transfer of dollars from low decile schools to high decile […]
Kohia te kai rangatira, ruia te taitea
For just a moment today, perhaps set aside a little time for reflection on, or to lift a glass and toast those New […]
It’s Labour’s fault it didn’t rain!
One of Bill English’s favourite lines is that New Zealand entered recession ahead of the rest of the world ‘due to Labour’s mismanagement […]
Malthusian merriment
In the wake of a rather nasty piece of ‘satire’ on another blog earlier this week, I’ve been thinking about over-population. It’s a […]
Editorials blogs and anonymity
What is the difference between a newspaper editorial and a post on a popular political blog? I was pondering this question because I […]
It’s not OK
You may have noticed the article on Stuff about a ‘senior political figure’ in court today. A woman is seeking a protection order […]
New Zealand’s global shame
Well, there goes our clean, green image. After Key announced the pathetic 10-20% emissions reduction target, we were declared ‘fossil of the day’ […]
Electrical storm
Breaking up the old Electricity Corporation into a bunch of artificially competing companies has been a 15-year failure. They’ve poured heaps of money […]
Double bubble trouble
It’s a rare day that I agree with Bill English but he’s right about the danger of another housing boom. The last bubble […]
Standing up for our rights
Remember the petition to state your opposition to Paula Bennett’s attack on our privacy rights. The idea is it will be tabled in […]
Recreating the reserve army of labour
Unemployment has shot up to 133,500, nearly doubling in 18 months. But that’s not the whole story. The official ‘unemployed’ are only the […]
New union blog
Service & Food Workers Union national secretary John Ryall has a new blog. His first post takes aim at the claim by Ngai […]
Kate’s CEO talkfest
The Minister of Labour, Kate Wilkinson, is holding a meeting today with 25 top CEOs on the number of New Zealanders who are […]
Still too far
Farrar has come back with a defence of his icky and outragous ‘satire’ post that proports to be a Green press statement announcing […]
Wellington fundraisers
Two cool fundraisers coming up for the Greens and Labour. The Greens are holding a screening of Kiwi ‘s The Age of Stupid, […]
Afghanistan for the Afghanistanians
It was a bit strange listening to Key’s interview on RNZ yesterday morning about deploying the SAS to Afghanistan. He kept on awkwardly […]
Big issues in Telecom lines strike
It’s great to see all the lines engineers standing up to Telecom’s attempt to strip away their employment rights and turn them into […]
Those who do not learn
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. National has learned nothing from the failure of the neoliberal policies […]
Holding Bennett to account
NZPA reports: Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff has confirmed she will investigate Social Development Minister Paula Bennett after the release of details of two […]
Padding pockets, not houses
Just a month into the Government’s housing insulation programme and John Key has had to launch an inquiry into rorting by contractors who […]
NZ’s credibility melts away
As a recent article in the Guardian newspaper asked: “Can art succeed where science is proving insufficient to generate the will to act […]
Double dipping
No, not another post about Bludger Bill, this one’s about that thing that he and Key are meant to be taking care of. […]
Now for the spin
It’s interesting to see how National’s spin doctors are trying to frame the Government’s pathetic and shameful emissions reduction target of 10-20% by […]
Unambitious for New Zealand
If ever there were a sentence that summed up our collective folly it’s “Scientific opinion is that a reduction of 40 per cent […]
Too far
Farrar’s attacks on climate change campaigners and the Greens recently have been pretty hysterical (‘they’re going to shoot the cows!’) but now he’s […]
Save the climate, raise our albedo
Dark material gets warmer in sunlight than light-coloured or white material. Heat energy enters our atmosphere after light strikes the surface of the […]
Someone give Rodney a Smack
Rodney Hide is increasingly becoming an embarrassment to the government. The perception that he has created is that he will back to the […]
Time for tory charity?
Following the success of TV3’s ‘Big Night In’ Telethon which raised over $2 million for KidsCan, I was thinking there are others that […]