The actual basis of the "criminal investigation" of Sunday is something of a mystery. The police have indicated that it's not strictly an issue of the case being sub judice -- it's ridiculous to suppose that a presiding judge will be influenced by the ...
Russell Brown is always so very keen ...
the whole thing is hilarious, with Prince Andrew playing at being Flashheart, brit bidnessmens hawhawing along and the US diplomats presentig shocked innocence about playing the Great Game. Indeed. Although I think the Dagestan Wedding cable is still my ...
Russell. You’re in the class war and you’re fighting for your side. Okay, thanks. I'll withdraw from this now.
the second is a weird assortment of anti-meaa gossip, a rather strange argument that because he accepts lower rates than other freelancers film workers shouldn’t be paid better than they are Eh? I'm not aware of saying anything of the kind. and some “I’m ...
You know, I don't think it's that simple. The MEAA is controversial in its own industry -- it's being blamed, rightly or wrongly, for driving international production away from Australia, and the way it bullied a Creative Commons film project against the ...
You’d have to wonder how else Slater gets, or can afford, such access to all that archival footage to trawl through. No mystery with the CTV clip of Anderton. It's on YouTube. I suppose he might occasionally get tips from Wellington, but it's not as if ...
Keith Ng notes that the report Collins was waving around explicitly says its estimate (which is strange enough anyway) is for a prison built "using a traditional approach", by the government, via Corrections. It doesn't even try and calculate the "benefits...
... guys are right, because Len Brown didn't look good in the... made-up story that was. Brown and Lewis have been saying... blather on Lewis's part -- something Brown himself has been guilty of...
When we're paying Henare's not inconsiderable wages, I believe he has a responsibility -- and also the means -- to determine whether a"well-known fact" is actually true before uttering it in public. We don't pay our elected members to just make things up. ...
Fair point, but I think a lot of us still associate you with "Hard News' and perhaps wrongly view your work in that context. Well, the two certainly do cross over, and sometimes I get to explore pet subjects -- I'm really proud of the autism-and-the-media ...
... unsatisfying without any redeeming substance. Russell Brown also lacks screen presence and...
Irish, the reason I didn't ask some of the questions you wanted me to ask isn't because I missed the mark, but because we're not a current affairs show: we're a media programme, and I was largely asking McVicar about his statements in the media, and use of...
I find A's remark about being a fan of Alex Jones somewhat puzzling. Alex Jones is a highly controversial figure and as such mentioning that you are a fan is somewhat confrontational. This combined with is otherwise "reasonable' comments and his mention ...
These same tensions have been present since Act's very birth. Its founding conference was attended by both dry economic liberals and old-school string'em up types like Trevor De Cleene. It's also always been a home for political cranks to a degree rivalled...
Personally, I'm finding Tim Ellis's rationalisations hugely entertaining.
The second part of this post: http://publicaddress.net/6309
There was a guy from some internet organisation in NZ on national radio this morning talking ... That was me.
What a deeply silly blog post.
I couldn't agree more. This also puts me in the odd position of agreeing with the Act party who said at the time: Depends what day you checked. Act took a variety of positions in 2003. Prebble urged the government to declare that "no claim will be ...
Did someone say evidence? From a 2007 UK House of Commons Hansard: Condom provision must be free because, as with any consumer product, the higher the price, the lower the take-up. In the July 2004 edition of The Lancet the RAND corporation reported an ...
If and when we start advertising, there will probably be some restructuring to optimize the income streams. Of course. But I doubt you'll ever bring yourself to ever build the site quite the way an ad sales guy would have it ...
But that's probably just being too technical, the basic order seems right the big two at the top, then a following group including whaleoil and public address I actually think Public Address does a bit better than the rankings indicate. Analytics is ...
We actually got an email about this from someone close to the young woman earlier this week but I didn\'t know quite how to apporach it. A bit outside our normal ambit. Just leave it. She's a little odd too. There's a Pearl Going fan blog I rather suspect ...
There does seem to be a quite stunning contrast between the Nats' response to Act standing a high profile candidateno sense that Act doesn't have a right to do soand Labour's panic about the Greens doing the same. Uh, do you have a quote to that effect? ...
Shock horror after being stuck in the 5% - 7% range The Greens piss people off for running a campaign as as independent party And they have every right to do so. I can't see how that equates to a free pass. Kicking off by slighting the Labour candidate as ...
I see he's not above running National Party lines either. Disappointing. That seemed pretty churlish, didn't it? I'm also surprised no one has made more of this claim in an email announcing Norman's candidacy to members and supporters: "It's important for ...
I'm disappointed that Phil won't be standing -- he's a strong campaigner with ties to the electorate and I'm pretty sure he'd have won it. But the equation -- Twyford win brings back Tizard vs the potential to bring in a new MP -- has told here, I think. I...
Hmm I would completely disagree with your statement about the quality of Monsoon Poon. Every time I have been there I have thoroughly enjoyed it, as has anyone I have spoken to. The fact that there is always a substantial wait to get a table would suggest ...
What I said about you was that you were grandstanding. Rather than continuing to work for a solution, you'd given up without saying what you thought a viable alternative was. That still stands. Lynn, that's both inaccurate and unfair to Matthew. I've been ...
How kind of you to judge one MP in the ACT Party and apply it to the remaining MPs. If that is your precedent then I will judge you all on Mike Ward, Dover Samuels, Parekura Horomia I mean lets be a little even handed here fellas! To be fair Clint, I think...
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