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Paul Henry defends his right to act like a child
Anna at The Handmirror has written a good post on Paul Henry and his obnoxious glee in denigrating someone for their appearance. I’m […]
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Third party returns
The Electoral Commission has released the third party spending returns for the 2008 election campaign and it looks like for all National and […]
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Key on wages
Key’s speech to the CTU today showed an interesting inight into how he thinks you lift wages. NZPA reports: He said it was […]
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Dom Post: Fail
The Dominion Post has this column on Fridays called the Diary [offline*]. It’s written by some anonymous staffer and is supposed to be […]
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Strawman
I’m always amazed at the intellectual hoops the neoliberal right will jump through to try and deny low income workers minimum wage increases. […]
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NRT on National’s ACC antics
I’ve been meaning to write something about National’s attempts to beat up ACC’s costs in order to soften the ground for privatisation (see […]
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What it’s about
One of the most disappointing things about the debate over National’s fire at will law is how little its supporters understand the basic […]
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The praiseworthy and the pitiful
Trevor Mallard for getting himself into one of those complex, multi-blog conversations and pulling it off. A Started when he commented on a Kiwiblog post […]
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Airbrushing at will
Via Farrar’s site I’ve come across this a lovely piece of Government spin. It’s a PDF document checking off everything National’s done in […]
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The Standard and s92a.
I’m not going to go over the whys and wherefores of this clause of the new copyright act. No Right Turn, Just Left, […]
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Which end to break the egg, and other pointless debates
The NZPA has revealed that Ministrial Services is employing fewer people on higher pay under the new National/ACT government than it did under […]
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Control group
I’ve got to admit there are days I wonder whether the National Party really have swung leftward. I mean I know they are […]
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Just a little respect
David Farrar has a wee post where he laments that he is rarely credited when he breaks stories that are then picked up […]
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Right desperate to sully Clark legacy
When John Key was elected he was wise enough to be magnanimous in victory, acknowledging Helen Clark’s considerable skill and integrity throughout her […]
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Interesting speculations
The Sunday Star Times will probably have an article out tomorrow about the possible nomination of Helen Clark to the position of head […]
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The praiseworthy and the pitiful
The praiseworthy and a pitiful is a weekly compilation of some of the comments we’ve seen around the traps that warrant some response, […]
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Lowering his standards ever lower
Just when Farrar had made me happy, as I explain in this post, and had even been quite funny in his retort, he […]
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Govt to sell your kids junk food
Education Minister Anne Tolley has just put out a press release announcing the following: ‘As part of the National Government’s commitment to reducing […]
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Long live the Free Speech Coalition
David Farrar, champion of democracy. We salute you for speaking truth to power, no matter who’s in charge. [Original here]
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All the facts
dpf, national, spin, tax, uk politicsNational’s David Farrar has been running a series for some time trying to paint NZ Labour as out of step with Labour Parties […]
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What goes around
Well, after years of National and its proxies beating up stupid, pointless stories about Labour MPs spending taxpayers’ money on ‘perks’ like driving […]
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National Spinners
David Farrar wrote… “Funniest moment was talking to a few of John’s staff, and one of them asked whether their imminent transfer to […]
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Shock revelation: Taper is Wellington Leftie
The secret taper has revealed himself as Kees Keizer, a leftie from Wellington. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday encouraging Keizer […]
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Not exactly Jon Stewart
A new facebook group has started up called “I am killing a kitten for every person who votes for the Green Party” (*) […]
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John’s cheese
For the many of you who won’t know, Tory boys David Farrar and Cameron Slater have been driving around the country interviewing MPs […]
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Insulting
David Farrar really is a disgusting person at times. He writes that we shouldn’t look at overall crime rates (although he made a […]
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National lies, again
National just can’t stop lying. We’ve covered National’s lies on wages and migration in the past and our last two posts have debunked […]
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Going over to the dark side?
Going into business with Farrar was one thing but has Scoop now cast its lot in with National? How else to explain the […]
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Nats relying on ignorance
It’s really easy to present misleading statistics. David Farrar shows how it’s done with a post on migration today. Note how his figures […]
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Rochelle, that was pretty good.
Well it turns out my niece has been having fun and done an effective google bomb on John Key. I’ve just been watching […]
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Political Funding – Have your say (eventually).
In 1993, the then National government reluctantly implemented the MMP system by putting in the Electoral Act 1993. This was an act that […]
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Pathetic
Rather than discussing the quote from Bill English that he would sell Kiwibank, David Farrar is whining that the protest outside the National […]
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Trust me
David Farrar says of a scene in Dark Knight ‘I would have voted ‘yes”. Without giving away any of the plot, that means […]
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EPMU cleared to campaign
The Electoral Commission has decided the EPMU can register as a third party under the Electoral Finance Act despite the National Party spending […]
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Electoral Finance Act victory for free speech
The Electoral Commission has ruled that several unions affiliated to the Labour Party are able to register as third parties under the Electoral […]
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Follow through
Over at Kiwiblog David Farrar has found an amusing error made by the Herald online in its politics section which has listed several […]
