McCready facing 51 fraud charges
Yesterday NZPA reported that Graham McCready – the man who brought a private prosecution against Mallard over his fight with Tau Heare – […]
Huckabee’s subliminal Christmas message
CNN reports that Republican Mike Huckabee poked fun at critics who said a bookshelf in his new Christmas-themed ad that appeared to highlight […]
Billboard shambles
Here’s some coverage from TV1 last night on what’s looking more and more like a PR disaster for National, Farrar and their wealthy […]
Dom Post: “Kill the krill”
Not content to let the media moguls over at The Herald have all the campaigning fun, it was great to finally see The […]
DPF’s bloody good deal
There’s plenty of comment about Davey’s/National’s Billboards here and at Blogblog so I’ll not bore you with my analysis of these dreadful things. […]
Leadership style & Clinton v Obama
Leadership is a quality that everyone can recognise but a whole suite of academic debate has emerged over its definition. For an example […]
Same old National
The National Party have reverted to type. They’re back to stoking the politics of fear and division. Anyone who thought that things might […]
Electoral Finance Bill passes
PS. If none of this is making sense try lolcats (Wikipedia) or lolnatz (Kiwiblogblog). Also worth noting that Dunne pulled his support at […]
Dunne folds under pressure
According to reports, Peter Dunne has withdrawn his support for the Electoral Finance Bill at the last minute. Newsroom says: Mr Dunne said […]
Mallard pleads guilty to fighting charge
The Dom reports that: Cabinet minister Trevor Mallard has escaped an assault charge over his altercation with National MP Tau Henare by pleading […]
Possible $1.5b in tax cuts in 2008
From Stuff: Cullen said “uncertainties” still existed, but Treasury had “significantly” lifted its revenue forecasts which meant the $1.5b in tax cuts in […]
CommitteeCaller.com
Here’s a cool idea. From the site: I’ve just finished building CommitteeCaller.com, a site that allows one person to target an entire congressional […]
Minimum wage rises good for workers
Reports suggest that the government is set to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. Coming toward the start of 2008, this […]
Progress on new superunion
The NZ Herald reports the Service and Food Workers Union, the National Distribution Union and Unite have agreed in principle to merge into […]
John Doerr on “Greentech”
Another video from TED: “I don’t think we’re going to make it,” John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and […]
Entitleme.com – tax comparisons
From the site: “The only two universal truths. Death and Taxes. Entitleme is an effort to deduce an individuals effective tax rate. The […]
Polls
From The Dom: A One News Colmar Brunton poll last night has National on 54 per cent, 19 points clear of Labour. A […]
Renewal, renewal, renewal in Palmy
Today the hotly contested four horse race to become the candidate for Palmerston North (the position being left vacant by the tenth hottest […]
Don’t panic
A few readers have written in complaining they’re getting a strange message in their browser when they visit the site. Turns out that […]
Two new faces for Labour line up
Yesterday two more bright young things were confirmed as Labour candidates for the 2008 general election: Kate Sutton in Epsom and Hamish McDouall […]
Two drunk backbenchers
A mate of mine had a rather interesting run-in last night with a couple of drunken Tory backbenchers. Here’s what happened: Last night […]
Turning attention inward: looking at the media
Some interesting observations from Steven Price on DomPost editor Tim Pankhurst’s keynote address at the Jeanz conference called “The Power of Print”. His […]
National reopens Selwyn race
Local Nats don’t want David Carter as their candidate for Selwyn. Looks like the threats, intimidation and bullying tactics used to get him […]
You asked for it Auckland
From The Herald: The Auckland City Council has scrapped its plan to build affordable housing. The last council signed a contract with the […]
NZ leads the world on climate change in Bali
Here’s a clip that aired last night on TV3. It shows NZ leading the world in our response to climate change in Bali. […]
John Key DVD – Director’s cut
John Key is the epitome of “style over substance” and his DVD showed us just how desperately he wants to be everything to […]
No democracy for the Selwyn National Party?
Colin Espiner has a story in yesterday’s Press saying that the heads of three National Party branches in the Canterbury district supported by […]
National and the wage gap
I see National’s complaining about the wage gap between New Zealand and Australia again. As usual they have no answers on what to […]
Memo to all National Party staffers:
Listen up guys and campers, there are some disturbing bits of info coming back from our ‘plants’ in the media world, including David […]
Style over substance: no real answers
In a continuation of Key’s “style over substance” policy approach, his consultants have found him a new buzzword – “infrastructure”. “Australia’s been more […]
Nats ruin the party
Well I might be drawing a long bow there but last night’s press gallery party was the worst I’ve ever been to and […]
ODT on the Electoral Finance Bill
Here’s an article from the ODT. It’s by Simon Cunliffe, “a senior Otago Daily Times journalist”. I’m loathe to reprint it in full […]
Bush absent at Bali conference
Al Gore has just accepted his Nobel Peace Prize for advocacy for action on climate change. In his speech he’s lauded Kevin Rudd’s […]
Classic Winston
Winston Peters just stood up in the house. Everyone expected he was going to announce he’d paid back the $160k. Instead, he announced […]
What is the price of believing?
Oprah is a global brand, so when she went public with her campaign to support Barack Obama it was part of our news […]
Republican AdStravanganza
Talking Points Memo have put together a great compilation of Republican presidential candidates’ campaign ads stripped back to nothing but key lines. It’s […]