A brave man
Looking at the centre photo above of John Key gave me pause for thought; I realised that much as I dislike his politics, […]
Key grins blankly, shrugs shoulders
I was going to do a fisking of Key’s ‘major speech‘ today. But there’s nothing to fisk, no substance, no ideas, no vision. […]
A National disgrace
Judith “Crusher” Collins, postergirl for uncompassionate conservatives, proudly announces in her latest press release: “Prison numbers set to be highest ever”. Odd thing to […]
Fire at Will: abuses, no new jobs
The Key Government decided not to monitor the implementation of its Fire at Will law. It probably feared embarrassment. Fortunately, the EMA and CTU have […]
Leak: Key’s next big plan revealed
Today Key is giving a major speech on the economy. He told Oliver Driver on Sunrise yesterday that it would be “pretty high […]
YL video: Join the opposition
Not to be outshone by their leader’s latest efforts, looks like Young Labour have been busy with a little video project of their […]
We can haz vision?
According to NZPA John Key is going to deliver a big speech tomorrow in which he will “detail the problems and solutions for […]
The power of images in politics
The shots above are small versions from this site where you can find other great images from Obama’s first 167 days in office. The […]
Oil company backs Greenpeace
Who’d have thought? An oil company coming out on the side of New Zealand’s biggest environmental organisation over emission reduction targets. Gull says […]
Folic acid fiasco
I just don’t see why medicating an entire population to prevent a handful of spina bifida cases, which will only work if women […]
Nats can NOHSAC
One of the most fundamental rights at work is the right to come home at the end of the day healthy and safe. […]
Stop press: Bosses support bosses’ party
The Herald’s ‘Mood of the Boardroom’ survey is predictable reading. Year after year, it’s the same ideologues with the same outdated ideas. The […]
The danger of Key’s low wage economy
As you know, things are tough in the job market at the moment. The firm figures won’t be out until later this month […]
Credit where credit’s due
You may have noticed that we’ve taken to offering Labour a little unsolicited comms advice of late. Irish recently told them to get some […]
EEC votes ‘No’ on should-a.com
should-a.com, the site that lets you write your own parody of the upcoming referendum question, has been issued with a takedown notice by […]
Big Mac nation
New Zealanders are now the third fattest nation in the world according to a report covered in today’s Christchurch Press. New Zealand faces […]
Standard scoop: Why Key fired Worth
Last Monday, John Key said you, the people of New Zealand, don’t have the right to know why a minister in your government […]
Big dreams, no delivery
Tv1 has revealed that our daydreamer PM had much much bigger plans for the cycleway. Like excited schoolkids, he and good mate Mark […]
Toast
What a horrifying sight today’s Q+A interview with Minister of Food Safety Kate Wilkinson made. It was a shameful performance from a media point […]
Sunday weirdness
Cameron Slater has had a big media day today with the Herald on Sunday pointing out his role in the cyber-bullying of some […]
Not Yours To Sell
Labour MP Phil Twyford is launching a campaign around his bill to protect Auckland’s community assets. www.notyourstosell.co.nz Phil Twyford’s private members bill, the […]
Another new left blog
Elsewoman. We’ve been remiss in not getting this on the blogroll earlier. Anne’s been giving us hassles. And rightly so, her blog is […]
New left blog
Mars 2 Earth is one of the vanishingly few blogs written from a Maori perspective (with quite a bit of environmentalism thrown in). Muscular […]
The Daily Refrain on swine flu
Sometimes writing is hard. Especially when one is hungover for the third morning in a row. Thank God for Youtube. This one goes […]
F*ck you, the NZ collaboration
Kick arse: Hat tip: Russell Brown
Political violence
A Nelson man attempted to buy a gun to shoot Nick Smith. Details are scant. What could have been a nasty situation looks […]
Beginning of the end
American news report from 1981 about the coming age of “newspapers by computer”. Classic.
Good news for care workers
It’s good news that carers for people with intellectual disabilities are getting more recognition. A court decision has found that sleep-over shifts are […]
From the archives
I figured this was deserving of a post of its own. It’s a cartoon from The Standard (v1.0) sent in by Anita in […]
Greenpeace to Obama: Show some leadership
From Greenpeace USA: Greenpeace climbers hung a banner on Mount Rushmore challenging President Obama to show real leadership on global warming. The banner […]
Seriously, there are better uses for $10 mil
Why are we giving $10 million a year in aid to Niue with a population of 1600? It’s $6250 per person each bloody […]
Trevett, Watkins, simultaneously jump shark
Yesterday Eddie pleaded for some real reporting from the journos accompanying Key on his tour of the Pacific. Just a day later they […]
Labour always hated the Nazis
I have to confess some confusion about this study that supposedly shows the First Labour Government was tight with Hitler. They were real, […]
Fisking Farrar’s fisking
Yesterday David Farrar presented us with his analysis of Labour’s electoral finance submission. There is a lot of ‘Nya Nya I Told You […]
Get your house in order
Here’s some advice I’d give Labour if I was Crosby Textor: You need three negative values you want associated with National (for example: […]
Observation from the sideline
Some worthwhile questions raised by Vernon Small in today’s Dom Post: Eight months ago to the day Labour awoke to find itself out […]