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 […]
Great expectations?
Clare Trevett, I know it’s very exciting going on a free trip to the islands but could we have some actual reporting? You […]
Who will mourn the MSM’s passing?
Can you believe that TV One had an hour long special on Michael Jackson’s funeral and then ten minutes in the news? Excuse […]
Should a…
www.should-a.com, a website “created for the express purpose of openly mocking the citizen’s initiated referendum aimed at The Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment […]
2020 target talks draw numbers
Seems the Government’s public consultation over an emission reduction target for 2020 is having quite an impact. Hundreds of people have turned up […]
‘Frontline’ cut for phantom savings
MAF Biosecurity is set to cut 60 jobs – 30 of them filled. It claims the fall in imports means it’s over budget […]
No use playing Canute
I noted with obvious interest on Stuff today that News Ltd CEO John Hartigan is having a go at bloggers and blogs. “In […]
Privatising the high country
According to Forest and Bird, John Key’s government has found a nice quiet way of hocking off New Zealand’s most prized assets to […]
Fran pumping Brash for productivity taskforce
A few weeks ago the NZPA reported that the Government had agreed to establish a taskforce to “work on ways to close the […]
Privileges complaints laid
A number of poor performing ministers like Paula Bennett, Kate Wilkinson, Anne Tolley, Pita Sharples, Tariana Turia, Rodney Hide, Pansy Wong, and Key himself, […]
It’s not your government, it’s his
From Key’s post-Cabinet press conference: Journo: You don’t believe that the public have a right to know why a minister in cabinet would […]
Unassailable Evidence
Inaugural Lectures are very traditional University events; held these days to permit outstanding researchers to present an overview of their work to the […]
The compensation that is and the compensation that is not
Key has claimed the foreshore and seabed issue is not about compensation. Tariana’s answer? This has never been about money says Maori Party […]
A little test
After a remark by all-your-base the other day, I’m testing how good Akismet (the WordPress anti-spambot) is. I’ve removed the need for entering […]
Robert Reid to lead NDU
As has been expected for some time, the National Distribution Union has announced that its President, Robert Reid, will be taking over as […]
Drinking Liberally Wgtn
Just received this from Drinking Liberally Wellington: We hope you’ve enjoyed our unannounced winter break. We’re back this Thursday, at 5:30 at the […]
Oil’s well that ends well?
Now days everybody wanna talk, like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch […]
The productivity shell-game
Is he named for the great economist John Maynard Keynes or Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan? Either way, he speaks a lot of sense: […]
Symbol or substance?
It seems to me that National has fundamentally misunderstood what the foreshore and seabed debate is about. Key’s statements yesterday suggest it is […]