Fox Attacks: Iran
This looks interesting. Fox Attacks: Iran is a new short film from Robert Greenwald, director of the excellent Outfoxed. The film focuses on […]
Clocking up the royalties
John Key’s new DVD doesn’t tell us much about what National would do in Government, but as we’ve noted before, his choice of […]
YouTube Republican debate
Should be on around 2pm our time. Time has a good background piece. The YouTube debate site has currently received around 5000 user-submitted […]
Google invests in renewable energy research
From the NYT: Google, the Internet company with a seemingly limitless source of revenue, plans to get into the business of finding limitless […]
Latest DigiPoll favours National, Clark
The Herald reports that: National has hit its highest rating – 51.3 per cent – in a Herald-DigiPoll survey. Translated to votes, that […]
Will the real John Key please stand up?
Linda Clark: “This is a gimmick, that’s all it is. if people don’t know John Key, well he needs to come to Parliament […]
National HQ deleting YouTube comments?
Just received this from a “concerned reader”: Just wanted to know whether or not you have also been blocked by NZNats? This morning […]
Armstrong reviews Key’s DVD (2 out of 5)
Hold the popcorn. Citizen Kane this isn’t. It’s Citizen Key in a 13-minute epic saturated with more artificial sweetener than The Sound of […]
Blogwhistle
Never one to let the facts get in the way of a little party propaganda Farrar really has become the partyline-parrot. It’s a […]
John Key’s $50,000 anniversary present
Just in case you don’t know, today is John Key’s first anniversary as National Party leader and his backers have given him the […]
John Key and January 1
John Key’s just admitted the election campaign has already begun, adding further weight to the argument that electoral law needs updating to reflect […]
Ambition doesn’t cut it
Wow, so that’s John Key’s announcement: he’s ambitious. I know I said he’d be short on substance, but maybe that was giving him […]
Key’s special announcement
John Key has now been leader of the National Party for a year. But while his salesman’s smile and general novelty factor have […]
Counter-protester slaps down right-wing nutjobs
Just came across this video on YouTube from last week’s rally in Wellington against the Electoral Finance Bill. This clip has one of […]
Labor set to win in Australia
After 11 years of conservative rule, it looks like Kevin Rudd has led the Australian Labour Party to victory in Australia’s elections. All […]
Ramshackle PR fiasco
It’s a bit late, but a reader who was at yesterday’s anti-EFB march has mailed us through some pics from the rally. As […]
Libs’ dirty tricks in Oz
The husband of retiring Liberal MP Jackie Kelly and a state Liberal official have been caught distributing fake pamphlets in Western Sydney. The bogus […]
Giving thanks for turducken
We at The Standard would like to wish our US counterparts a very happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Of course we’d hate to think that […]
Family fist
The Dom reports that “A father who spanked his eight-year-old son… for misbehaving… is one of the first to be convicted of assault […]
Just in: photo from David Farrar’s march
From Kiwiblog: Okay just got back from the march. Didn’t quite go as I envisioned. You see while I have promoted the march […]
Which was it David- anonymous donation or trust?
The Hysteria- with a capital H- over at Kiwiblog around the Electoral Finance Bill has been mystifying for many of us in blogland. […]
Roy Morgan poll
There’s a new new Roy Morgan poll out and it’s not good news for Labour. Gary Morgan says: “The recent plunge in support […]
Fozzie Bear: John Key’s secret fursona
From Boing Boing: Furries get no respect. Usually, when you hear about people who dress up like life-sized stuffed animals, it’s in the […]
Miro: free, opensource video platform
Miro – a free, opensource video platform has recently been released. It’s a piece of software that allows you to download, manage, and […]
Labour’s website: too smart for its own good?
Someone just sent me this blog readability test. It cl/aims to tell you what level of education is required to read your blog/website/myspace […]
Free Speech Coalition – defending their right to hide
The reason for National Party Kiwiblogger David Farrar’s obsession with megaphones is now clear. It’s about electioneering speech, and the logic goes like […]
Pascal’s Wager on climate change
Fortunately we have a government that’s prepared to act on climate change rather than gamble with the future. Nevertheless here’s an interesting take […]
Electoral Finance Bill changes welcomed
Stuff reports that “Key non-political critics have welcomed changes to the Government’s electoral finance reforms.” Both the Human Rights Commission and Coalition for […]
Electoral Finance – Apoplexy at Kiwiblog
Now we know why Kiwiblog wants the Electoral Finance Bill killed – it could cost Farrar money! Kiwiblog “has some significant advertising lined […]
Electoral Finance Bill back from committee
The Electoral Finance Bill is back from Select Committee and can be downloaded here [PDF, 500k]. It’s huge and will take a bit […]
More hypocrisy from National
It’s interesting to see National is attacking Peter Davis, the PM’s husband, over a letter he wrote to the NZ Herald about the […]
Granny’s blue woolly slippers
Granny’s campaign against the Electoral Finance Bill started with a bang and ended with a whimper. On Monday there was a banner headline […]
Fairfax poll
The Dom Post reports that: National’s support slid from 50 to 45 per cent in a Fairfax Media-Nielsen poll released today. Labour jumped […]
Party like it’s 1999
If we needed any more reason not to let National take us back to the 90s, I think this might be it. Via […]
Tell the panel Don & I am not a liar
Spotted yesterday in the Westin Hotel in Auckland’s Viaduct Basin by our orbiting surveillance satellite & Don Brash in a job interview line. […]
Pretend polling
Dodgy online polls seem to be becoming a staple of political reporting here in New Zealand. The story earlier this week on poll […]