US right vs 12-year-old
A week or so ago President Bush vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children’s health insurance in the US. He […]
Found
It’s Friday. Maybe you need a break. Don’t say we never think of you. Here’s a site I used to love but had […]
Deja vu: alle par dejeuner
Reading Hager’s observations in his select committee testimony got me thinking. That big business lobby which used to sit behind Dr Brash now […]
The real crime with the Brethren spending
I want to clarify the major difference between the Brethren spending money to elect National and the union’s spending money to elect Labour. […]
Fence-sitting on the Farming Show
More parseltongue from Key, this time on the Farming Show yesterday. It’s just getting tiring to listen to. Put Bill on, at least […]
Video: John Key meets Brethren
Here’s the clip that aired on One News during the 2005 election campaign. It was produced after it became apparent that the Brethren […]
Overtaxed?
There’s a lot of talk on the right about the surplus being evidence of ‘overtaxation’. But where exactly is the Government’s huge tax […]
Trans Tasman on Clark
Articles like this – particularly in international media – must worry Key and National. How do you even begin to challenge a leader […]
The war is not over for the children
For people visiting www.thewariniraqisnotover.com, I am tempted to add another requirement for those feeling genuinely outraged at John Key’s statement on the war […]
Remind you of anyone?
Key doesn’t deserve the moral high ground
No surprise to hear Key in the House yesterday relying on his research unit – Fran O’Sullivan – to try and weasel his […]
Outrageous Fortune
Outragous Fortune’s heading to the US. ABC has signed a deal with South Pacific Pictures to turn the show into an American series. […]
Political positioning
And so it begins. First we have Winston saying he could work with the Nats “if its policy was [thrown out] adjusted” and […]
DPF: Death Penalty Facts
There I was just reading this when I notice DPF doing a post on the same thing. Stuff reports that under Clark’s leadership […]
Petition: John Key should apologise
Like many listeners, we were stunned to hear this from a man who wants to lead New Zealand. Key has since claimed both […]
What good’s a story without any pictures?
Further to our release this morning of Hager’s testimony (PDF, 120K) refuting Brash and Key’s claim not to have planned their 2005 election […]
National’s cynical attack on disabled workers
History tells us the Nats will use any excuse they can to undermine people’s work rights, but this is low even for them. […]
Hollow Men new season at Circa 2
Good news for Wellingtonians. It looks like Dean Parker’s play The Hollow Men (based on Nicky Hager’s Don-downing book) has got a new […]
Connell’s history
From the Nats’ press release: National MP Brian Connell has indicated he does not intend seeking selection for the Selwyn seat at the […]
No it doesn’t, John
Looks like another batch of the infamous John Key posters has gone up all over central Wellington overnight, this time tackling John on […]
More from the Hollow Men
National doesn’t want you to see this. If you read five pages today, read these. It’s the transcript of Nicky Hager’s submission to […]
A disturbance in the force?
I might be coming to this belatedly (forgive me if you’ve already noticed it) but it seems the left/right blog war has heated […]
Tough but fair
Listening to Nine to Noon on RNZ yesterday I thought there was some useful insight into the bigger picture behind Key’s “the war […]
Stuff-up
Anyone else notice this morning that Stuff.co.nz seemed to think it was February 26? Apparently Paul Holmes is going to be on Dancing […]
KiwiSaver: 200,000 enrolled
From Stuff: Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said Inland Revenue reported 212,794 enrolments by October 5, a 64 percent […]
Che
Today is the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death. The BBC has a piece up titled “Che: the icon and the ad” tracing […]
UK police allow anti-war march to Parliament
Great photo of Tony Benn and Brian Haw from the anti-war march held in today in London (via The Guardian). Fantastic that a […]
Iraq is over & it should never have started.
I recently encountered an old ‘friend’ I’d not seen in a while. “Mugg he murmured. What a fiasco those Yanks are in over […]
Know your asshole footprint
From Vanity Fair: Regrettably, some [people] are simply not aware of how large an asshole footprint they leave on the planet. Here, Vanity […]
Thousands expected at UK anti-war march
Sounds like John Key’s good news hasn’t filtered through to the UK yet. The Guardian reports that “Thousands of anti-war protesters will mount […]
Measuring the death-toll in Iraq
Perhaps spurred on by General Petraeus’ claim to Congress last month that civilian deaths in Iraq were down 45% since December last year, […]
RNZ – Key on Iraq, the remix
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Are you biased?
And would you even know if you were? A team of researchers have set up an online test that can help to uncover […]
May the best team win
I’m aware that I run the risk of being called a bad loser with this post but I’m going to do it anyway […]
Congratulations France
Well that was painful to watch but good on France for really lifting their game. They defended strongly and took advantage when it […]
Colourful advertising
The Sony Bravia ads are among my all-time favourites. First we had the bouncy balls, then the paint explosions, now it’s clay bunnies.