Written By: - Date published: 7:02 pm, November 25th, 2011 - 237 comments
Over at norightturn idiot savant has declared his voting intentions. And let’s face it, in a representative democracy how you vote is where the rubber hits the road.
With that in mind Standard authors who feel comfortable with the concept are declaring the who and why of their democratic activities this Saturday. Commenters are free to join in.
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, June 18th, 2011 - 58 comments
In which r0b ponders why he blogs, and decides to come out. Very boring and predictable, I promise.
Written By: - Date published: 8:29 pm, April 21st, 2011 - 54 comments
I’ve long held to the principle of owning your mistakes and as such I’ve gotta say I was wrong about one aspect of the “stop asset sales” campaign – the signs are authorised.
Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, April 16th, 2011 - 68 comments
Every country that has ever sleepwalked from democracy to dictatorship has done it in the belief that it was taking extraordinary, temporary measures in response to an emergency. Seeing Labour denounce every aspect of CERA and then vote for it has shaken me to the core.
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, March 1st, 2011 - 49 comments
As of Tuesday morning, we have had about 249,250 comments since The Standard launched three and a half years ago. We’re averaging a 317 comments a day since New Year’s. Although politics has rightly cooled in the past week due to the quake, the quarter of a million mark should still be reached on Thursday. Who will be the lucky commenter?
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 am, February 28th, 2011 - 54 comments
There’s been lots of good stuff written on the quake, I’m not going to try to add to it in any systematic way. These are just a few random personal reflections from inside the disaster zone, big picture and small, all that I can put my head around writing tonight.
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 am, December 23rd, 2010 - 25 comments
Yesterday, we hit 3 million pageviews for 2010. Today, we’ll have our millionth visit. 45% growth on 2009 even with the few days we were offline and a couple when stats data wasn’t captured. It’s not just a small cadre of hardcore fans (although, do we love you guys and girls) – over 212,000 unique visitors have visited The Standard this year.
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, December 3rd, 2010 - 18 comments
It was pretty cool that the next Finance Minister wrote a post about my post yesterday. Even if was to say I was dickishly misinterpreting him 
I’ve got a couple of points in reply but the biggest is why is Labour talking about (restrictive) privatisation and PPPs policies when there are much more important economic issues at hand?
Written By: - Date published: 1:06 pm, September 26th, 2010 - 10 comments
We like to make a big deal over the comments because it is you coming on here, contributing your thoughts and ideas, that make The Standard what it is. Without all of you, it would just be a dozen or so people arguing with themselves/ If we wanted that we could just hang out with the Libertarianz. So, who was comment 200,000? Well…
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 pm, September 6th, 2010 - 71 comments
As far as I know I am the only Standard author to have been right in the middle of the Darfield / Christchurch earthquake. To all commenters and readers in the region – greetings, and keep safe.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, March 31st, 2010 - 15 comments
Managed 11/10 in this week’s stuff politics quiz.
Just under 0 seconds.
No guesses.
Try your luck, if you think you can do better!
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, September 4th, 2009 - 23 comments
So, against my better judgement I’m now a card carrying Standardista. Finally managed to get through the initiation ceremony without fainting. I’ve been issued with a pass card and retina scanned for the Secret Standard Bunker buried deep beneath Parliament. I have access to the restricted mainframe codes and my own Swiss bank account. Q …
Written By: - Date published: 5:20 pm, July 2nd, 2009 - 31 comments
Our first comment was on our second day, August 17th 2007 “Where will it lead? ” by trythisone on our third post… who never showed up again. Number 100 was on September 15th, 31 days in, John laughing at Jacqui Dean for wanting to ban dihydrogen monoxide – also known as water. Our thousandth came …
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, May 12th, 2009 - 47 comments
When I first started writing for The Standard way back in August 2007 I never envisaged it would become what it is today, nor that it would take up anywhere near as much of my time as it does. A year and half later, I’ve decided I want my life back. Contrary to the conspiracy …
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, March 13th, 2009 - 31 comments
The Dominion Post has this column on Fridays called the Diary [offline*]. It’s written by some anonymous staffer and is supposed to be a witty and irreverent take on minor happenings over the last week. We’re clearly getting under someone’s skin there, because this week they’ve taken a potshot at us over Trevor Mallard commenting …
Written By: - Date published: 4:14 pm, March 10th, 2009 - 56 comments
Protecting workers’ rights, protecting ACC, safeguarding jobs, public services, and SOEs, opposing privatisation. These are all important fights. But it’s a crime we’re having to fight them at all. While we are concerned with such things, the enviro/economic challenges to the sustainability of our society barely get a look in. Peak oil, climate change, depletion …
Written By: - Date published: 12:47 pm, January 26th, 2009 - 58 comments
I’ve meaning to write a wee post thanking Young Labour for inviting me along to speak at their Summer School the other weekend. I’m told it’s a bit of a tradition at these summer schools to have some speakers from outside the party to give a different perspective, which is a bloody good idea. Falling …
Written By: - Date published: 9:11 am, October 10th, 2008 - 55 comments
National activist and pornographer Cameron Slater took a complaint to the Electoral Commission against myself and others who took part in a satirical protest outside the National Party conference. He complained that we had breached s63 of the Electoral Finance Act by making unauthorised use of the National Party logo and s65 by not authorising …
Written By: - Date published: 1:40 pm, July 18th, 2008 - 46 comments
Unlike some of our counterparts, the Standardistas aren’t into vanity posts. So, in this clip from TVNZ7′s Back Benches on Wednesday, ignore who’s asking the question and watch National’s Chris Tremain try to justify his party’s ACC policy. Reaches for his cliches but they don’t fit the question so he resorts to attacking the question. …
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