My wife and I play "Watch the eyes!" We know when he is lying. It's better than Monopoly or Texas Holdem in that it is over very quickly and is so predictable
I will not use Bunnings while this contract is in place.
For the last 40 years I have frothed about the NZ flag. Merv Wellington insisted that the NZ flag be flown outside schools. I have never liked the union jack on the NZ flag. Our forebears escaped the British system. I appreciate my dad fought in WWII under...
There is no way Key is macho! Populist maybe. Even effeminate at times. Triple handshakes. Name dropper. Not the characteristics of macho.
Annette has an authenticity and practical aura that few MPs have. She goes to the heart of any matter. NZ, rather than just the Labour Party , will be poorer for her retirement. Can someone who has her ear ask her to hang around another term!
Don't forget SERCO will be in the frame for privatisation of schools in NZ. Do a Google search for SERCO +education + England. You will be inspired by the vision the Nacts have for public education in NZ. The public private partnerships as espoused by ...
I may have missed someone else posting this reference, but it is very powerful and moving stuff. Similar results to NZ banks and the swaps fiasco. I understand David Pascoe is an equine vet who writes a regular blog. http://keworganics.com.au/an-open-...
It was never a rascist call on the housing issue. It was using one of the few statistics available to show how overseas ownership and investment is stuffing up home ownership for NZers. Real estate salesmen make their $$$ whoever the house is sold to, so ...
I am cheered that the pollsters have picked up my vibes. I thought my view of the world had been ignored. TV3 deserves its slide, and it won't improve into the positives until they get rid of the right wing trolls in charge.
Brilliant! Many thanks.
There was a recent news item (TV3 I think) on Ron Mark using the F word in Parliament. The translator for the deaf in the background did a remarkable translation. Any chance someone could upload the small section for wider enjoyment. It is classic.
Please tell me how to get good news/good journalism via the internet rather than supporting the current TV1, TV3, Prime and Sky! What url? What equipment if needed? Campbell going is the final straw!
Great stuff!!!
Hallelujah! I have boycotted TV3 since Henry was parachuted in amongst all the expensive palaver. I have relied on Radio NZ for my morning dose of news, and have quite enjoyed news without the pictures. I enjoyed the TV3 team that got dumped. I have not ...
I am so embarassed. Key is our representative.
It is a great show Mac1. Dave Armstrong does a great job of covering the transition from the jingoism of 1915 NZ to the disallusionment and sadness with the return of soldiers back home. He cleverly covers the emergence of the Pioneer Maori Battalion and ...
I understand Maccas, Burger King and Wendy’s use zero hours contracts. There will be other less high profile businesses whose workers need to make public.
Boycott zero hours companies. Boycott Mediaworks. People power worked in Northland!
Joyce misjudged Northland badly. Let's hope he has done it again!
I have my doubts that Mediaworks will bend. The Steven Joyces and Paul Henrys of the world look after their type of people rather than looking to the interests of wider NZ. I wonder if it would be better to move the John Campbell show holus bollus to Maori...
Why is it the country celebrates our exchange rate getting stronger such as parity parties for goodness sake! As much as I like the occasional overseas adventure and cheaper imports, I have often felt higher returns for our exporters means more jobs; the ...
I'm gonski. How can a channel that has John Campbell pushing issues that matter turned to a fellow who was rejected in NZ, then rejected in Australia, who was beaten easily by Georgina Beyer, and whose only positive is that he is a favourite with redneck ...
Hans Christian Andersen's Emperor story somehow has parallels here. Is Winston going to be the young fellow who yells out to John Key "But he is not wearing anything!" Are the good citizens of Northland setting a precedent by indicating the Nats have lost ...
I am fascinated by the factions in Nat head office and parliament. Can someone please explain the implications of this Nat disaster for the various wannabes.
55/98 2232 ahead. Not even close. Go Winston!
Reminds me very much of Don Brash getting into the midget at Western Springs: totally gormless!
I agree with a couple of bloggers above: boycott firms with zero hour contracts. It will be short term pain for the workers in the firms involved but in the medium term and longer, fairness and reasonableness will be restored. Can we access a list of firms...
It is a bit rich from Key when he worries about separatism. His economic and educational policies have meant there are now 162 schools in NZ that have no white faces. Is that poverty vs affluence? Is it white flight? Can someone explain. It definitely is ...
Great analysis Mac1!
Eleanor Catton gives me hope. We need more high profile NZers to make similar commentary in the same way Ed Hilary (with much support) did years ago in the face of the Muldoon disaster.
I have been interested in the word "embuggerance" surfacing in reports from the Victorian election. My initial response was that it was a neologism created by Aussie journalists. The truth is that it is a military expression. Amongst my Google explorations...
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