1. What will National’s cabinet look like?

    Categories: national

    Will it be the same tired old faces, the fresh noobs or a mixture of both? Will it be an all National cabinet […]

  2. Highly principled statements

    Yesterday, Bill ‘do whatever it takes to win’ English was out trying to assuage Kiwis fears of National’s secret agenda (which his recorded […]

  3. Labour chickens out on $15 minimum wage

    Labour, why do you do this to me? One day you’re announcing neo-Keynesian policies to help us through the coming recession, then you […]

  4. Nats: Pay cuts for you, tax cuts for the rich

    Bill English has put out a press release whingeing about Helen Clark’s promise to lift wages for low-paid school support staff, and fearmongering […]

  5. Introducing Campaign Hub 2008

    Helena Catt, head of the Electoral Commission, says the EFA has had a ‘chilling effect’ on democratic participation. I’m convinced that that is […]

  6. Kiwis waking up to Nats’ secret agenda

    According to the TV3 poll last night, 46% of voters believe National has a secret agenda. And why wouldn’t they? We’ve had Bill English […]

  7. Fallout

    National’s attempt to contain the meltdown from Bill English’s secret agenda comments at the National conference and on TV1 collapsed when it emerged […]

  8. The stolen emails defence

    So National has finally reverted to the ‘stolen emails’ defence to combat the damaging recordings from the weekend’s party conference. I’m only surprised […]

  9. For the people

    Categories: activism

    A sage comment from our reader, Bill, got me thinking. He said “If political news was even given the same modest in-depth coverage […]

  10. Pride in your work

    Some of our rightwing commentators are rejecting the argument that National’s ‘workplace policy’ strips workers of their rights. Problem is, every workers’ rights […]

  11. Nats’ NGO policy, give the money to Aussies

    Charities are voicing fears that under a National Government public funding for NGOs would be administered by an Australian NGO called Mission Australia with dire […]

  12. Same old faces, same old tactics

    Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces […]

  13. 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 […]

  14. Speech: Labour is the Party of Ideas

    Categories: labour Tags:

    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 […]

  15. What’s National got to hide?

    During the debate over the Electoral Finance Bill John Key’s made a lot of noise about National’s willingness to clamp down on anonymous […]