Tag: election
Opaque transparency
It takes a lot to make me write about current events. Usually because I’m not a creative thinker
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I was a Mormon, then I wasn’t: Jacinda Ardern
She’s pretty much everyone’s favourite Labour MP. Despite all the in-fighting and muck-raking and general ickiness that has beset the Labour party
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Election 2014: Reckons Roundup (Updated)
After the election delivered National back into power, many people have been sharing their reckons. It has been hard to keep up with them all. So here is a roundup.
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Baby, baby, where did our love go?
So that was a pretty brutal massacre wasn’t it? There’s an awful lot of reflection happening around the country as the left wing comes to terms with just what the hell actually happened.
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Pundity punditing
So I made some predictions and based on the provisional results this is how I did:
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A reader writes: an endorsement
A long time reader has written the following. It’s interesting.
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Hugely scientific twitter poll
So I’ve been running this on Twitter now, and thought this would be another good way to check.
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The media, they’re our friends
Hello New Zealand, you seem a touch angry. We at the Ruminator tried to cheer you up by reminding you that New Zealand is pretty amazing
Read MoreAudience Interaction! Interact from the audience.
If you’re watching the debate tonight it’s important you tell people what you think INSTANTLY. Either do that on twitter or use the below which I am totally shilling for.
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Election 2014: Policy Watch
So with all the hullabaloo around Nicky Hager’s book and this @Whaledump character drip-feeding us more and more information, a lot of people have been saying “oh this is all a sideshow” and that “Labour isn’t talking about policy because they have none”.
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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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