US warns: don’t cling to carbon
Take heed, for the Superpower has spoken. At Round One of this year’s international climate change negotiations (in Bonn, Germany) the US has […]
Key plays the April fool
Someone’s set up a swag of fake Twitter accounts under the names of Labour MPs. Apparently Labour came across these on Monday at […]
“Monitoring”
No Right Turn exposes ineffectual government spin on the fire at will act. The select committee procedure would have improved the bill. Perhaps […]
It’s the men in black
The SIS has made its yearly attempt to scare the crap out of MPs and get more funding. Apparently, New Zealand is under […]
Happy tax cut day?
The tax cuts that National are implementing today are more generous to high income earners, and less generous to low income earners, than […]
Anyone else get the feeling…?
Herald: You’re too poor to exist
What’s missing here? Oh yeah. Half the population. Everyone on less than $25,000. According to The Herald if you’re not rich you don’t […]
Mayday Mayday, Worth’s bought it and I’m losing altitude – Groser out
Richard Worth, OBE, is now in very serious trouble having been snared in what looks like untruths about using his Ministerial portfolio to […]
What’s Labour got up its sleeve?
When you were perusing yesterday’s Hansard (don’t lie, you were) did you notice this question from Pete Hodgson to Richard Worth amongst the […]
National dumps worker reps from ACC board
Nick Smith announced National’s changes to the ACC board this afternoon. As expected they’ve kicked Wayne Butson and Ross Wilson off the board, […]
Have your say
Professor Paul Callaghan from Victoria University introduces the ‘Think Tech’ site via video. Panelists will look at what sorts of new technologies, in […]
Econopocalypse
My pick for word of the day.
Cold.
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Sean Plunket, “interviewer”
I’ve just listened to Sean Plunket interview Goff this morning. It was actually less of an interview and more an exercise in running […]
Repeat offender
Breakfast host Paul Henry is in trouble again after making fun of a guest’s appearance. “Shall I read these out? They’re a bit […]
Worth’s story unravels
Despite getting a “bollocking” from John Key, Richard Worth last night denied that he had been acting as a minister when he went […]
Time for Fyfe to go
It’s time for Bill English, as shareholding minister in Air New Zealand, to tell the AirNZ board that either they fire CEO Robert […]
“Corrupt!”
National rode to power off the back of years of rhetoric accusing the last Labour government of corruption. Who can forget the screams […]
Comparing freedom of information
Idiot/Savant has a great post in an aussie blog Larvatus Prodeo on the legal and operational differences between our Official Information Act 1982 […]
A healthy dose of reality on prisons
Peter Williams QC was on Breakfast this morning giving a refreshingly frank assessment of the problems with our prison and justice systems – […]
Paul Henry defends his right to act like a child
Anna at The Handmirror has written a good post on Paul Henry and his obnoxious glee in denigrating someone for their appearance. I’m […]
Ad questions
Does anyone know why DairyNZ, the seafood industry, and the forestry industry are running ad campaigns at the moment? They’re strange ad campaigns because […]
New Left blog
Fickle Cycle, a left-wing Kiwi blog with an international focus.
Brits aim assistance to the low income
The irony of this article struck me when this week the well-off get the biggest boost to their wallet. From the Guardian : […]
SSTimes Editorial: Clark’s UN job great for NZ but…
I haven’t spotted an on-line version of this yet (SStimes Editorial, 29 Mar 2009) but wanted to pull a couple of quotes out […]
Tax cuts for some
The Weekend Herald’s front page proclaims ‘$2 billion more in the pocket“. The article goes on to say “the average worker will get […]
Rehabilitated?
On Q+A this morning, Judith Collins couldn’t defend prisons for profit but she sounded quite reasonable when talking about the need for more […]
Ralston’s hackery continues
Earlier this week we pointed out that John Key has started running a new line. Now instead of calling touchy-feely liberal policies on […]
A hint of uranium on the breeze
Well well well. According to the Herald: “New Zealanders are being asked whether the Government should allow nuclear-powered ships back into our waters […]
What’s a Poor Pragmatic Key to do?
Just when the Kiwi corporate kleptocracy was kicking into high gear to ensure that the taxpayer is properly stuck with the paying the […]
Herald cartoonist bereft of ideas?
Seeing some of Rod Emmerson’s cartoons in the Herald over 2009 thus far, you’d think we were into the Right’s nightmare of a […]
Standing up
This week Sealord confirmed it would lay off 130 staff to improve its already healthy return on capital. The other 400 have been […]
Fun with labour productivity
We often hear that labour productivity is not growing fast enough and some argue it should be a focus of government economic policy. […]
Sack Henry Now.
When I first saw this clip of Paul Henry publicly ridiculing Greenpeace’s Stephanie Mills for (in his view) having a moustache I decided […]
Update: Shepard Fairey v AP
Over at his site Shepard Fairey, the creater of the Obama “HOPE” poster, has an update on his legal wrangle with the Associated […]
Caption contest
