When you wake up to the fact your paper is Tory
Hilarious reading through the Herald’s Your Views on election funding. Seems the Herald’s meek acceptance of the Government’s electoral funding plans has alerted […]
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Condoms and democracy
Have to disagree with Zet’s call for Labour to ‘just put it away‘ on the remit to conference calling for subsidised condoms in […]
Memo to the Herald
Dear nzherald.co.nz, The opinions expressed in the Your Views section of your website are not an accurate reflection of public opinion in New […]
Fran pumping Brash for productivity taskforce
A few weeks ago the NZPA reported that the Government had agreed to establish a taskforce to “work on ways to close the […]
Why the Herald’s polls are stupid
Hikoi video
The Herald Online has some great video from today’s hikoi here and here, and some photos here. The videos really are worth a […]
Talking tough
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Today in the Herald John Key is talking tough, […]
Your Views hits new low
The Herald is currently asking its readers: “Is a conviction appropriate for punching a child?” Seriously, what the hell is wrong at the […]
Herald cracks down on free speech
Sick of the Herald? Try Editing the Herald instead. With intelligence and wit, James lays out the daily journalistic disgraces of our beloved […]
The republic can wait
No Right Turn highlights Thursday’s Herald editorial calling for our political leaders to step up and take some leadership in the republic debate. […]
Herald preaches class warfare
If you’d told me the Herald would use International Workers’ Day as an opportunity to preach class warfare I wouldn’t have believed you. […]
On that Trevett piece
Continuing with today’s media criticism theme, I’ve got to disagree with my comrade Eddie’s post this morning about the Claire Trevett piece in […]
As bad as it gets
Clare Trevett grow up. You write a piece congratulating Key on making diversionary statements when he is asked serious questions about the supercity? […]
Questions
We should expect National as the political arm of business to surround itself with dirty money and conflicts of interest. As a self-proclaimed […]
More on the Commerce Commission
On Thursday I linked to a piece in the NBR that suggested Simon Power’s appointment of Dr Mark Berry to replace Paula Rebstock […]
Employer opposes wage increases – shock!
Yesterday I expressed concern about Unite’s referendum on indexing the minimum wage to two-thirds of the average wage on practical grounds while strongly […]
Who cares if it’s just PR?
There is a rumour in the Dom Post and the Herald that the minimum wage will be announced today and the Nats are […]
A journal for the ruling class
The Herald continues its campaigning today with a puff piece about a poll that claims business wants National’s 90 day ‘fire at will‘ […]
“NZ Herald Staff” dribble
Bomber over at Tumeke has pointed out a stupid news story about the blogosphere from the Granny Herald. It either shows a selective […]
This looks big
It looks like the Herald has as a scoop on John Key’s possible involvement in the H-fee scandal. According to the article: John […]
Fact checkin’ – five-headed monsters
The New Zealand Herald is, as usual, uncritically repeating John Key’s latest lines on the front page of its website. This time Key’s […]
A missing NZ Herald poll?
Now I’m not one to gossip (well, not too much) but in the last few days I’ve heard from several people that the […]
National’s ‘redneck element’
In the heat of the Lockwood Smith controversy yesterday, some of our right-wing readers had a go at John A for posting a […]
Trivialising the electoral process
I don’t have a lot of time for Winston Peters’ politics or his dodgy electoral practices, but sometimes the man just hits the […]
Granny beside herself as polls turn
As the polls start to turn on National – and a new poll out yesterday saying the Left working with the Maori Party […]
National’s “major policy shift it talks about behind closed doors”
This revealing quote is buried in the middle of today’s Herald story by Fran O’Sullivan headed “All change on the gravy train”. It […]
Common sense from the Herald – stop the press!
Brian Rudman’s piece in today’s Herald is so far the most sensible comment on the Spencer Trust affair. He points out that funding […]
Oops
For everyone who says apostrophes don’t matter, try telling that to the Bioethics Council.
Happy families
The New Zealand Herald’s latest anti-Labour beatup took an unfortunate twist this afternoon. Having spent the best part of a day making hay […]