Class war
One of the particularly unpleasant parts of the last budget was the cutting of funding for night school classes in conjunction with the […]
Pontius John
How extraordinary of John Key to align himself with western history’s most notorious coward in his statement that he had “washed his hands” […]
Watercare – minons of the dictator
Rodney Hide, in his role of Minister for Local Government, has made himself the petty dictator of Auckland’s future. Therefore he is ultimately […]
A place in the sun
Another bad week is about to end for John Key with a mammoth defeat of his handpicked Mt Albert candidate. What’s that now, […]
Media irresponsible to name her
I haven’t really wanted to get involved in the whole debate surrounding Richard Worth. It’s horrible and messy, and makes me feel sick […]
Poor Melissa, well, not so poor
She’s really trying her best. Even with only one news cycle to go, Melissa Lee is still out there, working hard to get […]
Self-inflicted wounds
Whale Oil has a page of ‘trophies’. Little pictures of people he thinks he has dragged through the mud and embarrassed. Even made […]
Back to basics
Radio NZ is playing John Key saying that, following the letter from the woman in the sexual harassment saga, he has “washed his […]
John’s recession-buster: a party, in 2 years
On Monday, John Key promised he would make a ‘major tourism announcement’ today. Apparently, we’ve just had it. In a speech today, Key […]
Marxism, whoo!
All going according to plan, I’ll be there. Hungover in the back row.
Let’s avoid an expenses side-show
Most people with an interest in politics will have heard about the expenses scandal in the UK. Their system allowed rorts of all […]
Nats slash education
Did anyone else notice that for all this supposed government waste that National was going to get rid of it made only $500 […]
Live blogging from Backbenchers
Jarbury is live blogging from backbenchers tonight 🙂
National: targeting the victim
So National’s latest tactic in the Richard Worth affair appears to have been to leak the identity of the first complainant against Richard […]
Where’s the trap?
Yeah. Great honey-trap. – First, target a minister that doesn’t matter with a woman who is openly Labour – Second, delete the most […]
Cameron Slater gets it wrong
Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) gets it wrong again in his post about me today. On the upside he managed to write his post today […]
“From the Edge”
Kevin Roberts has a new post up on his Herald blog, “From the Edge”. What a load of bloody waffle. To think in […]
Something cool
Werewolf, new from Gordon Campbell and friends.
A sign of things to come
Boniface hits the mark
From Linley Boniface in the Dom 0n Monday: …My kids love hearing about the teacher who used to soak his strap in warm […]
A few facts unpin a lot of spin
The Tories are throwing all the muck they can at Goff. Trying to get him to back off on the Worth thing. Their latest is […]
Honest? John?
Richard Long, Fairfax’s in-house media adviser to the National Party, recycles an old line in today’s DomPost. Today it’s “honest John”. Two years […]
Crosby – Posturing with little substance
Lynton Crosby of the political spinners Crosby/Textor, who ‘advised’ both John Key and Don Brash, has finally given up on trying to pursue […]
Why the Herald’s polls are stupid
Audrey Young: Goff right, Key wrong
The Herald asked this morning whose word was more credible on the Worth issue, John Key or Phil Goff. Their political editor Audrey […]
Productive debate
There was nothing in the Budget for productivity. Education, the foundation of producitivty, was actually cut when you take into account inflation and […]
Fight for Auckland’s local democracy
Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, has a list of upcoming meetings on the supercity. Mt Albert – 5.30pm Tuesday 9 June, Owairaka […]
Kneecapped
Until now, Melissa Lee’s only remaining selling point in this train wreck of a campaign has been that the party she’s standing for […]
The Tory nose-dive roundup
I never seen a government crash so quickly, so hard. The Standard was saying before the election that Key was a two-faced facade […]
The plot thickens?
At his post-cabinet press conference, John Key continued to determinedly fly in a death spiral over the Worth affair. The journalists asked some […]
Political Chicanery
The Irascible Curmudgeon writes some really good posts. So without apology we republish this little gem on spin and the art of re-writing […]
Old news
Saw this strange article from NZPA last night. National may be behind in the polls for the upcoming Mt Albert by-election, but nationwide […]
Joke candidate cracks a funny
From Lee’s presser yesterday: “I am the only candidate that Mt Albert voters can vote for that will be inside John Key’s Government.’ […]
Cataclysm
Six Degrees Could Change the World This is a documentary detailing the possible effects as temperatures rise throughout the world degree by degree. […]
It’s called sovereignty, stupid!
The Minister of Agriculture David Carter really outdid himself in the house last week. First he completely dodged and didn’t address the question […]
3000th Post
Well it is that time again. We just rolled over the 3000th post on the site. Number 2000 was in November last year, […]