Deja vu
Looks like slipperiness runs in the National Party family…
Key caught out
The government’s move to strengthen the Overseas Investment Act on Monday was met with predictable criticism from the ‘markets first, people second’ brigade. […]
Did Key try to get ‘wage drop’ journalist sacked?
Michael Cullen made an interesting remark in the House today in response to a question on John Key’s statement that he “would love […]
National: is there anything they won’t privatise?
Burqa Bob wants to buy heartland rugby. In other news, Bill English plans to sell our sunshine hours to a Finnish consortium and […]
Foreigners think NZ is great, why doesn’t National?
One of National’s strategies is to constantly talk down New Zealand, arguing that other countries have it better, that to catch up we […]
The Maori party and a deal with National
We’ve all seen the polls with National leaping out in front – and over that magical 50% mark. Helen Clark may be saying […]
Key backs the underdog
The latest Newsroom story [subscription only] about the Government’s move to protect Auckland International Airport from sale to the Canadian Pension Fund reports […]
Protecting New Zealand’s assets
The government has made a series of moves to prevent strategic New Zealand assets being exploited by foreign companies. Last week tax law […]
A plea to the Greens
The Greens vex me. Here is a party of grand vision and good science; a party that understands how our current mode of […]
Mao Zedong features as preferred PM
As Helen Clark and John Key continue to jockey for top spot as preferred PM, Mao Zedong has made his first appearance in […]
Herald-Digipoll
The latest Herald-Digipoll shows National continuing its huge lead over Labour. It’s a rather strange looking Parliament, with the Greens dropping below the […]
Maori play it smart
The Marae-Digipoll has the political commentators all excited over what has been accepted fact in the blogosphere for some time: the Maori party […]
They’ve got 18 better than him?
National MP for Northland, John Carter, is ‘up in arms about a decision allowing inmates from Ngawha Prison to play in the Whangarei […]
Behind National’s emigration wailing
National likes to talk down New Zealand, to portray this great country as underperforming, to exaggerate our problems, and to cast our unique […]
Winston tears Paul Henry a new one
I’m as sick of the Owen Glenn saga as the next guy, but Winston Peters’ tussle with failed National Party candidate and Close […]
Talleys in trouble again
NZPA reports that Hollow Men the Talley brothers have been fined $110,000 after eleven workers at their Blenheim plant were subjected to carbon […]
How would Key make wages drop?
Having read our coverage of John Key’s ‘we would love to see wages drop‘ line my brother asked ‘but how can a government […]
For the record
Like most of his policy positions John Key’s story on his comment “we would love to see wages drop” just keeps on changing. […]
Cutting out the middle man
The Herald reports that after questioning by the media, ‘Prime Minister Helen Clark says her criticisms of the New Zealand Herald bear no […]
What’s the future of Working for Families?
One consquence of the expectations around tax cuts is an examination of some of the policies already have in place – Working for […]
Joining the (blue) dots
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Blue Chip blues? The company is in the news again today, and not just for allegedly breaking a […]
someoneorotherisyournewbicycle.com
I bookmarked barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com last week but forgot to post on it in amongst the (not over yet) story of John Key’s admission that: […]
Bill’s Wikipedia edits
Again from a Parliamentary address, the following passage was deleted from Bill English’s Wikipedia entry in June last year: He married a Catholic […]
Lucky last
When we published the results of our MP survey on John Key’s “we would love to see wages drop” quote last week, we […]
Turnout suppression
Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the conservative US think tank The Heritage Foundation (which has links to our very own Maxim Institute) once famously […]
Peas in a pod: Family Fist, National, DPF
National Party blogger David Farrar points to a criticism of the repeal of s59 by Sacha Coburn (“a Christchurch businesswoman, lawyer and mother”): […]
National’s history of rewriting history
You think they’d learn. Wikiscanner reports that someone in Parliament has been busy – busy expunging potentially embarassing facts about a variety of […]
Rod Oram: Insight into 2008
For those who are looking to the Beehive to bring some single minded focus to the current situation Labour finds themselves in, this […]
Nader standing
Last night Ralph Nader announced his candidacy for President of the United States on NBC’s Meet the Press. Many Democrats see Nader as […]
Key’s shameful attack on journalist
One of the more unsavoury aspects of Key’s “we would love wages to drop” saga is the unwarranted attacks by Key and his […]
Espiner on National’s hypocrisy
From Colin’s blog: It’s time for National to put its mouth where its money is. After a week of climbing into Labour boots […]
NSW Liberals want an Electoral Finance Act
In an ironic twist, the Sydney Morning Herald reports today that the New South Wales Liberal Party has called for reform of campaign […]
Jones to Key: say it to our faces
Far North Labour MP Shane Jones laid down the gauntlet to Key over the ‘we would love to see wages drop‘ scandal. Jones […]
Transcript proves Key is lying
When it was revealed that John Key had told a business leader he ‘would love to see wages drop‘ it undermined everything he’d […]
The deafening silence
At a meeting in Kerikeri last year with a business leader, in the presence of journalist Greg Robertson, National Leader John Key said […]
Tail-spin
While National is trying to pretend John Key’s quote that “we would love to see wages drop” is a non-issue, behind the scenes […]