What goes up
There’s a lot of empty, over-optimistic talk around at the moment about ‘green-shoots’ in the economy. Supposedly, these are little early signs of […]
Reminder
1) Go read Editing the Herald. 2) Bookmark it. 3) Read it every day. It’s the best thing on the Internet.
40 by 2020
Great new video from 350.org.nz calling on the Government to back a 40% reduction in emissions by 2020. Current National Party policy is […]
OIA confirms: No reason to cut Cullen Fund contributions
Well, we told you so. The Nats lied for weeks that a credit rating downgrade would be imposed on us if we didn’t […]
Climate change, passing the pain.
The US has finally managed to pass a bill through the house of representatives dealing with climate change (sort of). It is laden […]
Shouting into the void
Pop quiz – did you know that earlier this week the UN released a major report on the “Green Economy”? Here is a […]
Worth asking
What a world where a supposed journalist writes this: The trouble is Key’s desire to be reasonable. Despite his intention to say no […]
The price of fear
It’s hardly controversial to comment that our media peddle fear. Nor uncontroversial to comment that a cowed individual is a controllable individual. Many […]
A lecture on the WAIS
There are a few odd times that I wish I was living in Wellington instead of Auckland (not often).This is one of them. […]
CycleWatch – 100 days
As CycleWatch hits 100 days, John Key’s been caught with his pants down. As No Right Turn explains a few days ago: [There […]
Double strength spin from Armstrong
Former journalist John Armstrong runs National’s line on health today: The Cabinet’s loosening of rules on district health boards farming out non-urgent surgical […]
Show pony
Fran O’Sullivan, who championed National most ardently in Opposition, has become disillusioned with Key as PM. She savages him today, saying he has a “deep need” […]
Time for Labour to listen
I have to disagree with my comrade ayb on his post calling for Labour to come up with a more detailed program. Though […]
Pay equity video
A short video from the NZEI from Tuesday’s pay equity rally at Parliament. There are also a bunch of photos on flickr from […]
Go the Yanks!
So we’ve got a government of incompetents, ideologues, and sloths. At least things are going better in America. The Democrats now have a […]
Abandoning a winner
Government’s put out this press release: “Finance Minister Bill English has welcomed news that the Budget operating deficit of $7.2 billion for the […]
Labour lolz
I reckon Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, has been a huge success. It’s great to see MPs unscripted and it’s good for […]
Private member’s ballot
The Left continues to have luck with the private member’s bill ballot, getting both of the bills drawn today just like a couple […]
A “Charter for Blackmail and rent-seeking by Maori interests”
Further to my post yesterday, a reader sent in this quote from 2004: Mr English’s view was not [National’s] official line. As expressed […]
Elucidate
The woman has dropped her criminal complaint over Worth. Says she is satisfied now the scumbag has lost his career. Police are expected […]
Bill sez: ‘pay cuts for youse’
Yesterday in Question Time, Bill English sent a message loud and clear to teachers, police, doctors, nurses, and all other public servants (‘frontline’ […]
MAF investigation report released
MAF has released the final report of their investigation into the pig farm owned by former Pork Board Director Colin Kay, exposed on […]
100,000th comment
Our first comment was on our second day, August 17th 2007 “Where will it lead? ” by trythisone on our third post… who […]
Tax Payer funded hypocrisy
Remember the hip-hop tours ‘scandal’ the National Party used over and over and over again to attack the previous Labour-led government? They went […]
So whatcha gonna to do about it then?
I reckon there’s a mood developing. People are getting sick and tired of what feels like a government that’s got the country in […]
Six years – for what?
Six years ago the Neocon Bush administration invaded Iraq, on the pretence of looking for “weapons of mass destruction” (that were never there). […]
Lost in translation
Dear Labour I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes my attention span isn’t the greatest. Between Twitter and Facebook and texting it’s […]
Cowardice, bigotry and saying whatever it takes
I’ll be glad to see the back of the Foreshore & Seabed Act. For many on the Left, including myself, its been a […]
Excuses excuses
First, it was ‘we’re going to do everything we can to keep Kiwis in jobs’ Next, it was ‘yeah, OK, we haven’t done […]
Lovin’ it?
Stuff reports that McDonald’s is getting up to $16,000 of taxpayer money per person it recruits from the benefit. I doubt this per-person […]
Just laugh in their faces
National is overseeing the most dramatic rise in unemployment on record (yep, 2000 a week is more than the 1980s, more than the […]
Before there was spin…
When we talk politics we often use words like positioning, frame, context – words are a vital part of the programme of political […]
Definitely not the sewer
This post by Scott Yorke over at Imperator Fish amused me. It is such an apt description of the differences between the two […]
When spin goes wrong
Richard Long, the main man behind Don Brash’s racist Owera speech is just about the poorest propagandist you get: “Why only two to […]
Foreshore review dead-on
The Foreshore and Seabed review panel have reported back with the recommendation that the law be scrapped and people be allowed to attempt […]
They put a bus lane through my heart
This goes out to all the dispossessed emos of Manners Mall, the forgotten victims of Wellington City Council’s new bus lane: [Hat tip: […]