Category: Politics
Everyone loves a Royal Tour (even if they don’t much like Royalty).
This Royal tour is a funny thing. Latest polling seems to suggest that as a country, we want to move on from the Monarchy. Republic NZ’s polling shows that only 46% of those polled wanted the Next British monarch to become King of New Zealand.
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Georgeous baby your highness
We are in the midst of a highly publicised visit from the Duke, Duchess and George of Cambridge, and despite the growing number of people joining the camp of “who-gives-a-royal-fuck”, the handsome duke and his gorgeous family are leaving in their wake a herd of screaming fans trying to catch a glimpse of them.
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We talked about Kevin
It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was blowing, rain was pouring and I was going to see Kevin Hague.
Read MoreYoung people’s Jewish problem
I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for this, but crikey. Sort it out young people. This is from the recent Young Nats Ball.
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Hey MSD, stopped being dicks
**UPDATE 2** After my gentle provision of another chance for them to reconsider, MSD has decided that they will play nice.
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Facts are Sacred. Comment is (of variable quality)
Blogs were supposed to offer new hope for journalism. The days of the churnalists/repeaters/lamestream media were numbered, to be replaced by the purity and investigative depth of citizen-journalists.
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Me and Ms Collins
We’re a big fan of Minister Collins. She was the first MP to support us. She wrote the first MP’s guest post for us (get one, get them all!) and though we don’t agree with her politically, she’s always been ready to engage online.
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Confidence: An ode to Bryce Edwards
Confidence. It’s the jewel in the crown of human behaviour isn’t it?
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Mr Ryght: An interview with ACT leader: Jamie Whyte
Jamie Whyte is the new leader of ACT, a party currently polling at 0.4%, this is promising compared to the 0.00% it polled quite recently.
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The greatest cultural cringe in New Zealand; or why New Zealand Government Departments shouldn’t make videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0BND-zLDc&app=desktop Hat tip: Laura McQuillan
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Free political advice: National Party
This is the second entry in my free-political-advice series. Today we look at the incumbents, the National Party. Or as I call them “John Key and the suits”.
Read MoreFree political advice: Labour Party
So it’s election year. And I’m a thoughtful, intelligent, relatively non-partisan kind of guy. So I thought I’d do some thinking about what each party should do in the run-up to the election.
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The sisterhood of the racist travelling jacket
By Walter Plinge This week Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei played the race card, accusing Corrections Minister Anne Tolley of a thinly veiled racist attack against her for mentioning the cost of her designer jacket.
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How’s yer nation?
So we’ve had three states of the nation in the last week. Three. And really they weren’t states of the nation were they?
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Ruminator TV: secret National Party 2014 Campaign video
In this exclusive leak we’ve been given National’s 2014 Election Video:
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Colin and Me
There is no point retelling the litany of buffoonery that Colin Craig has entertained us with over the past couple of years. He’s admitted using calculated comments to ensure air time and entrench himself as part of the media landscape.
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