Category: News
Herald has eight left columnists and one right one: Redux
Over at KiwiBlog, David Farrar has done a seriously low-effort post. Usually I wouldn’t demean myself by responding but I’m involved in the post, and it was such a pile of wrong that I couldn’t help myself.
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A Pox On Both Your Houses
If there’s one euphemism I’m sick of hearing it’s “property investment”.
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Trump, the View From Moon Zealand
For a while now I’ve wondered when exactly we should start taking seriously what is going on in US politics around Donald Trump. How foolish of me. The time is now.
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Best of the Worst
Today I’m voting to keep a flag that I’ve wanted to change since I was six.
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Peaking Into The Future
The inclusion and subsequent failure of Red Peak in the New Zealand flag referendum is a triumph of democracy; pats on the back to everyone involved.
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Flagged as inappropriate
Well they’re out. The final four design have been reached and they’re all a bit terrible.
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Be Like Mike
In continuing my trend of writing about things days after everyone else has pretty much covered it, I’d like to wade in on the Mike Hosking thing.
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When are numbers racist?
By Morgan Godfery Some politicians seem to think that “data” exists in a privileged realm somewhere above politics and power relations. Data, according to Phil Twyford and others, enjoys the authority of objectivity.
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Orewa 3: The Orewa-ing
On Saturday morning I was rung by a friend who is a huge political nerd. He is also right wing. He was excited.
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Leaving Pook Farm; Generation Rent Edition
My suspicions were first aroused when my property manager told me not to panic.
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American Political Batshit: With malice towards none
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
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Ka Kite Ano Campbell Live
Today will be tough. There will be laughter. There will be cake. Campbell Live is famous for cake. We are the only people in the world who lose weight on Christmas holidays.
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On casualness and ethics
A lot has been written on the Prime Minister and his pulling of Amanda’s hair. I’m not going to weigh in on that.
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War is war, hell is hell
It’s two days now since the actual ANZAC day but today is the brand new Monday-ised holiday, perhaps a good time to reflect on our reflection.
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The Kitchin Sinks
So news from late last week is that Paula Bennett has herself a new press secretary, former investigative journalist Phil Kitchin
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John Oliver’s dick: a tall tale
You have probably already seen some – if not all – of the interview between John Oliver and renowned Government whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
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Dream big New Zealand
In the end, the end came at the beginning, but for some reason even the end felt like a beginning of a kind.
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