Category: Politics
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- Oliver Carle
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Sometimes it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Read MoreFlagged as inappropriate
- Oliver Carle
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Well they’re out. The final four design have been reached and they’re all a bit terrible.
Read MoreI hope the Young Nats paid for their license
- Lord Sutch
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So the John Key + All Blacks love affair has been going on a while. This isn’t news.
Read MoreFarrar vs polls vs spin
- Lord Sutch
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In a Kiwiblog post that seems to have been written by David mashing his fists against the keyboard, Farrar argues that Labour’s “week of headlines on blaming the Chinese for Auckland house prices has come to nought” (source).
Read MoreWhen are numbers racist?
- Guest Post
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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.
Read MoreOrewa 3: The Orewa-ing
- Lord Sutch
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On Saturday morning I was rung by a friend who is a huge political nerd. He is also right wing. He was excited.
Read MoreMeet the socialist running for US President
- Tim Batt
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Bernie Sanders is, on first blush, a grumpy old man with crazy white hair who’s constantly yelling numbers into microphones about income inequality. He’s been doing it for decades.
Read MoreAmerican Political Batshit: With malice towards none
- Adam Dawson
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“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.”
Read MoreIt’s all so obvious when you think about it
- Lord Sutch
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There are a group of people, we are told, that focus groups suggest, will not vote National.
Read MoreIt’s not easy being Green (while running for male co-leader)
- Lord Sutch
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A while back I asked the four Green Party co-leader aspirants what their favourite musical was.
Read MoreSpeech by Minister for Women, Louise Upston at the 59th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
- Lord Sutch
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Ms Upston has, at the time of writing, been conspicuously silent on the issue of unwanted attention and harassment by the Prime Minister.
Read MoreYup, it’s creepy
- Hilary Cameron
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Ah, yes. It’s just a bit of fun. Mucking around. A friendly gesture. How many times have we heard these old chestnuts when some bloke has been somehow inappropriate?
Read MorePolitics makes me sick, again and again
- Lord Sutch
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We’re doomed. Doomed to repeat the same bullshit over and over again.
Read MoreHow to mislead with numbers
- Lord Sutch
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I’ve always been a stickler for what I call the reverse-stat.
Read MoreLeft is right
- Lord Sutch
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If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative when you’re 30 you have no brain.
Read MoreHow the War in the North was won
- Lord Sutch
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So that settles it, Winston is awesome at campaigning. Better than Joyce. And Joyce is supposedly awesome. So awesome > supposedly awesome.
Read More“The term New Zealand comedian is an oxymoron”
- Lord Sutch
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So the title of this post is not my position, god no it isn’t.
Read MoreA very short post that continues my rage about the Feed the Kids Bill
- Lord Sutch
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So like the huge political nerd I am, I did a bit of fishing.
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