Article on the establishment's approach new Alternative for Germany party, with reference to the Left Party and the relationship with the Social Democrats (Germany's Labour Party equivalent): "The Social Democrats hate the Left Party so much (ostensibly ...
If you want to follow NZ politics on Facebook, there's a new list which brings all the different pages together at http://bit.ly/NZpolitics The list has MPs, media, interest groups etc. Completely cross-partisan. It's easy to miss updates in your timeline ...
Stuff's news values were recently summed up brilliantly by this gem from the Neetflux satirical Tumblr blog. It's so good that perhaps mods could add it on as an image at the top of this post? http://neetflux.tumblr.com/post/121541227932
With the new Whaledump stuff coming out today, interesting background profile of Simon Lusk based on his M.A. thesis http://bit.ly/1w8sFpf
The NZ Herald story on the Bryce Edwards vote chat story is here http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11273360 Clare Curran was the last guest that Edwards interviewed. So seems to explain why she is quoted so much in the ...
More about the Bryce Edwards/Vote Chat story from the NZ Herald: "I'm entirely non-partisan and a show like this does have to have some strong sense of balance", he told the Herald late last month. Matters are said to have come to a head after Dr Edwards' ...
What's being going on at the University of Otago? The University of Otago has rejected claims from a member of Parliament its general election media project has been taken over by the National Party. The claims were made by Dunedin South Labour MP Clare ...
There was quite a lengthy interview with David Shearer on the Larry Williams show on Newstalk ZB yesterday, about 8 minutes. All the important questions were asked. Highly recommend it. Does it remind anyone else of overnight talkback? http://www....
The focus group line is funny when you first hear it, except when you consider that Labour's housing policy was probably derived in the same way.
Bryce Edwards has a post out (http://liberation.typepad.com/liberation/2012/12/clare-curran-the-standard-and-the-state-of-the-labour-party.html) which ends with the following: Nonetheless, it’s kind of ironic to draw attention to Clare Curran’s recent ...
Reminds me of the joke project set up by the righties a few years ago... NZ Bloggers' Union http://nzblogunion.blogspot.com/ "Representing YOU, the New Zealand blogger for the greater good. All NZ bloggers, readers and commenters are automatically members...
That would be fantastic!
It's a fair point. I suppose the traditional justification for requiring exclusivity was to stop details of tactics etc. being leaked to rivals. But realistically ordinary members are not going to be privy to any really sensitive information. And when ...
This is pretty standard fare for political parties. From memory only Act allows members of other parties to join. That's why they had the supporter category, so that members of other parties wouldn't conflict with the usual rules. Realistically I doubt ...
I think the policy is a bad one in terms of rorting etc. and it's not exactly left-wing. Why not build more state houses? It's pretty simple. But most voters don't think these things through. It's a policy aimed at the middle classes and even if few people...
Surely the lack of online payments is because of the credit card details fiasco of last year when the data was stored in an unencrypted form? In the Constitution and Rules it says that you only pay half the annual fee if you join in the second half of the ...
Would like to get confirmation about this too please
I rarely comment and am usually happy to be an observer. I haven't been a fan of Shearer's but was willing to give him a chance until this weekend. After seeing the vitriol from Hipkins and the way Cunliffe has been/is being treated though I can only say ...
Message for Lynn Prentice - thanks so much for restoring the full RSS feeds! Much appreciated. Also I think the mobile version of the site is less sluggish now - did you do anything to it? Thanks again!
Question for Lynn Prentice - I guess the full RSS feed is not coming back, but if so is there anything that can be done about the mobile version of The Standard? It works OK (but not fantastically) with posts that have up to around 50 comments, but any ...
Questions... 1. Does Banks do the honourable thing and resign now, or does he let it drag on? 2. Does Key strip him of his ministerial warrants? Thinking of Nick Smith, others have gone for less...but then again, it's not Key's party. 3. If there's a by-...
Did John Key advise himself that it was a dinnimic environment?
Interesting. John Key gave the speech to the PSA on 25 September 2008. Lehman collapsed on 15 September 2008. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00271.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers
Leave Waitangi Day the way it is. I think it's actually quite healthy to have a day for reflection and discussion about NZ's founding document. Do we really want a rar-rar day of excessive patriotism which largely ignores the negative impact of historical ...
Great thinking - the slogan could be "Renal failure -won't Costa lot!"
Coming up next: the captain of the Costa Concordia becomes a consultant for safe sailing practices.
I would second the request for a return to full RSS feeds, if at all possible. I read blogs first on my smartphone and the ones that have full RSS feeds are so much easier to read via Google Reader. For blogs that don't have full RSS feeds (like Pundit and...
I agree the Sky News/Prime interview with Phil Goff was excellent. It's available to watch at the Sky TV website: http://www.skytv.co.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=1589. (Perhaps this link could be added to the post as the Prime link doesn't have the video)
Is the debate available online for delayed viewing? I can only find the live stream on the Stuff website.
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