Tag Archives: Labour

a top 10 list to make National cringe

At the end of the first week of campaigning, in which some were saying Key won the leaders debate, but spent the rest of the week defending allegations of lying or justifying his economic policies which have come under attack … Continue reading

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Live: Helen Clark @ Otago Uni

Big crowd of scarfies here with some usual suspects, Victor Billot of the Alliance and Stop the Stadium (obscure collective of CAVES), Pete Hodgson, the Greens. Actually the place is bloody packed. Scarfies don’t seem to mind that her plane … Continue reading

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When one’s ego is just too big to see the picture

A very typical ploy of the oh-so affected middle class intelligentsia these days is to decry the death of freedoms, muddled up with imagery of cottonwool nanny states resembling a kinder Plunketesque NAZI state. The latest of these concerned individuals … Continue reading

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Filed under economics, John Key, Policy, Politics

what was I just saying…

In the finest tradition of rampaging out of control youths, rabid dogs attaching all in sundry and seismic wave of home invasions, I have picked up the ball and run with my topic de-jour. The bloody polls that they run … Continue reading

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Herald’s neutrality?

First off, lets get our limitations and bias out front. I was once a avid hearld.co.nz reader. I am now a herald.co.nz skeptic.

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Filed under Design, Politics