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 […]
Looking for: whatever he can get
In perhaps his strongest signal yet to potential coalition partners, John Key has set his Facebook ‘Looking for’ status to “Whatever I can […]
Lawson not bonkers
Esteemed Tory Brit-econ-pop-enviro-guru Nigel Lawson, Lord of Blaby, dad of Nigella, is not bonkers. Lord Blaby (Ed: shurely not? Wot? It is true?), […]
Prats in the Nats on China’s miners
How’s this for small-minded prejudice from National Party backbencher Kate Wilkinson in a press release today complaining about the $84,000 dollars for a […]
Headline of the Day
Paris Hilton doesn’t help drunk elephants I haven’t read the article yet, and I don’t think I will. With a headline like that […]
Granny gulled by National and Brethren spin
Granny Herald wants to run a campaign against the Electoral Finance Bill when it doesn’t understand the Electoral Act. Worse, because it doesn’t […]
Roundtable shirks science, embraces aristocrat
The Business Roundtable has invited Nigel Lawson, British Chancellor of the Exchequer under Thatcher, to speak to them on climate change. Inevitably, Lawson […]
Granny’s wail
Today the New Zealand Herald’s waning tantrum over the Electoral Finance Bill has been relegated to Page 5. Perhaps Granny has paused, had […]
Landslide sliding away
The Roy Morgan poll results have been included in the latest rolling poll from Molesworth and Featherston and shows that National – despite […]
Hollow man beachtowel
Make your National MP’s holiday season with one of these fantastic towels. Currently out of stock but don’t doubt for a minute that […]
Google Australia launches election tools
Google’s launched some great new online tools for the Australian election. Check out: www.google.com.au/election2007 where you’ll find Google maps called maplets, with electorate […]
Take the blinkers off Granny
Granny Herald tries to defend itself against National Party bias by saying it ran a headline “I am not a liar” over Brash […]
Electoral finance: link roundup
Tony Milne’s got a good piece on the Electoral Finance Bill over at his blog I See Red – electoral finance reform is […]
Students as stakeholders
Interesting to see Onslow College is giving its students a say over the hiring of their teachers. Recognising students as stakeholders in their […]
Ask not what your country can do for you, DPF…
Interesting to see National Party blogger David Farrar is inciting his readers to start a political party to bypass/oppose the Electoral Finance Bill. […]
Burqa Bob speaks out
Bob Clarkson’s never been one of the sharper tacks on the National party backbench, his only contributions to the debate being his infamous […]
Speech: Labour is the Party of Ideas
The other day we published an extract from Evan Thornley’s speech to the Labour Party conference. We’ve finally managed to get hold of […]
SCRABBLE success
Nigel Richards, formerly of Christchurch, has become our first world Scrabble champion. Richards apparently led from the start, needing just three of the […]
The cost of the war in Iraq
From the BBC: “The US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing nearly double the amount previously thought, according to a report set […]
Sharpen up your climate change arguments
The BBC has a good roundup of the top 10 climate change denier arguments with rebuttals from scientists who agree with the Intergovernmental […]
Latest Cosmopolitician on shelves now
Thanks to the reader who sent us the latest edition of Cosmopolitican, a nifty little publication that did the rounds just before the […]
Time for an upgrade
So the Herald links to us from the front page of their website this afternoon, and the resulting traffic knocks out our server. […]
NZ Herald to investigate Nats’ funding
Matt Robson’s newsletter has a real scoop on the Herald’s next propaganda campaign: NZ Herald investigation into large, secret party funding I have […]