Key endorses Banks
As if denying Aucklanders the chance to have their say on the super city wasn’t enough National now seems determined to tell them […]
Rhetoric & Reality 3: Crime
One of the most tedious and predictable right wing electoral tactics is to try and whip up a frenzy of fear about crime, […]
The Tank Man
It was remiss of me not to post on this last week. June 4 marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. […]
Brains Trust
Whaleoil, John Key, and Melissa Lee. National’s policy wonks discuss transport modalities in an oil- and carbon-constrained future.
More opposition than ever to supercity
While the mishandling of the Worth scandal grabs all the headlines, the mishandling of the supercity process is still grinding on. And Aucklanders […]
New Zealand’s weakest link
Is its business leaders. There’s Keys, the Fyfes, the Weldons. Who all spend so much money to look good on the covers of […]
First moves on Holidays Act reform
Call me old-fashioned but the Worth scandal doesn’t really interest me much. In fact I’m of the opinion that Goff and others should […]
Should Key have appointed Worth at all?
On Q+A this morning, Phil Goff was asked by Paul Holmes for more detail on why John Key wasn’t surprised when he took […]
She was lying there with her inbox open and her cellphone pulled up
The Queen of Thorns at Ideologically Impure has a post with this wonder title about the type of victim bashing that the some […]
Wait, didn’t he say ‘women’?
There’s still a lot of confusion on the Right, in particular, about the sequence of events in the Worth saga, so I’ve tried […]
Looking forward to the weekend
Will be fun to read the Armstrongs, Rolstons, Laws, Holmes, Hooton and the other assorted rightwingers that besmirch our weekend papers. See them […]
Why didn’t Goff out Worth earlier?
That’s the right-wing bloggers’ spin. It’s weak. By far the most interesting thing that emerged from this morning’s exchanges on the wireless was […]
Piggy in the middle
Key is describing himself as ‘piggy in the middle’ in the Worth sexual harassment affair. Says he had two conflicting stories and couldn’t […]
Crying wolf?
From The Independent: No lasting harm from airport credit downgrade. Analysts and management of Auckland International Airport are unconcerned at Standard & Poor’s […]
Air New Zealand, shame on you
In Brisbane yesterday, members of Australian transport unions took over an intersection outside AirNZ’s HQ to show their solidarity with the Zeal workers. […]
Pork Board desperation and farm tour success
Animal Liberation Aotearoa (ALA) have for the past year or so been running a series of farm tours, taking members of the public onto factory farms to see for themselves how they work. They do these openly and in broad daylight, accepting the possible risk of minor criminal charges that may result (though thus far none have).
Time for a change
Sorry for the long post. This is my transcript of John Key’s interview with Mary Wilson on Checkpoint last night. It’s just incredible. […]
Housie
I was listening to Parliament on the wireless this afternoon. First. Question Time. Bennett was asked how many jobs the Jobs Summit has […]
Slippery
Mary Wilson interviews John Key on Checkpoint. Brilliant. Sean Plunket interviews Richard Prebble and Richard Griffin on Morning Report. Grubby old men. Time […]
Quandary
This evening, Labour tabled in the House, with her permission, a statement from the woman that Richard Worth harrassed with his corrupt ‘jobs […]
Get a shave mate, you’re the PM
If you saw last night’s One News piece on the Worth fiasco, you might have noticed Key looking particularly haggard. This photo doesn’t […]
Rhetoric & Reality 2: Jobs
Before the election National’s “Employment & Workplace Relations” policy set out the principle of “building opportunity for all”, and the need to “Expand […]
Breakfast covers the Worth investigation
First it was Paul Henry and Guyon Espiner. Both agree Key needs to “come clean with the country and give us more detail […]
General Election in 2010?
National promised to do a lot of things in their first term such as: Not selling state assets. Keeping WFF and other entitlements […]
Worse and worse
This just gets worse for Key. It has emerged that Worth was offering ‘jobs for favours’ for a young woman. Goff passed her […]
Question time
John Key’s making a real hash of this latest Worth scandal. There was the secretive way he went about things yesterday, which is […]
Iz satisfard
hattip: Maia, Anthony Karinski
Happy Birthday lprent!
Happy 50th lprent! Now here’s someone Russel Norman could legitimately call grey 😉 But seriously, Lynn is a baby-boomer, one of those generation […]
I wish to complain…
It turns out that Phil Goff was aware of an allegation about Richard Worth weeks ago that may relate to the current investigation. […]
Barrel scraped
A dude told me a good political rule of thumb the other day. ‘If Farrar won’t go near something, it’s pure political poison. […]
Update on Worth
From the fuzz: Police confirm that a complaint was made in Auckland two weeks ago and related to a recent alleged incident. Preliminary […]
Nat discovers the virtues of listening
Here’s an exert from Nick Smith’s speech to the 2009 New Zealand Planning Institute Conference: I acknowledge, that while the bulk of submissions […]
Cullen’s two cents
Quite rightly, Michael Cullen has avoided getting involved in the debate over National’s starvation diet for the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, known as […]
Sprinters
David Farrar has a post on Kiwiblog listing the fastest risers to become Prime Minister. They are: John Key – 6 years David […]
If you’re gonna cut, make it clean
How titillating. Worth has resigned and he won’t say why. ‘Personal reasons’ eh? Heard that one before. Key’s not talking either. He describes […]
More on Worth?
Just out from the police: An allegation has been made against a sitting member of Parliament. Wellington police are conducting a preliminary investigation […]