Tag: politics
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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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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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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Questioning Colin
Recently we’ve played host to the musings of some of New Zealand’s most prominent politicians. While this is all fine and dandy to have MPs pontificate about their thoughts, we also want to challenge them and make them front up for their beliefs and policies.
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Winston Peters: Loves Buzzfeed, made a list.
By Rt Hon Winston Peters, usual disclaimer. We don’t endorse.
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David Cunliffe: Them’s fighting words
Disclaimer: In no way do we endorse any of the things said here. Once again it’s just us providing a platform to MPs to say what they like. David Cunliffe responds with his own tongue in cheek blog post to a post by Judith Collins.
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The Edge of Reason: Kicking the Tyres
A few weeks back, I attended the Karori Normal School Gala, at which I bought a copy of the most recent VUP post-election book Kicking the Tyres: The New Zealand General Election and Electoral Referendum of 2011 edited by Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine.
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Peter Dunne: It’s my party and I’ll agglomerate if I want to
United Future leader Peter Dunne writes on the perils of a two-party system and why we must cheer on our minor party friends.
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Metiria Turei: Our own will rightly hold us to account
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has submitted the below as a guest blog. We didn’t ask for any specific topic so it was fair game.
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Ain’t no party like a black is white, up is down, wrong is right tea party
Some of you may share my frustration at what’s going on in the US. I’m hugely disturbed that the country that serves as the anchor for the world economy can be brought to its knees by a handful of loons.
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The Edge of Reason: Exit through the Gift Shop
Radio New Zealand has a story online about John Banks being committed for trial on a charge of filing a false election return.
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Judith Collins: Dance of the Desperates
By Hon Judith Collins I grew up Labour – in the days of Norm Kirk and the more forgettable Bill Rowling. I knew David Lange – having chosen to intern in his Mangere Electorate Office while at Law School.
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