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Relief?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 3:23 pm, October 18th, 2007 - 31 comments

Look Mike, I know you know about the polls and I know you’re probably thinking about what you can do to turn things around. Well, I’ve got one little idea. Stop using their language. It’s pretty simple really – I mean it’s not gonna win the game or anything but it’d be a damn good […]

Banks? Thanks…

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 11:02 am, October 15th, 2007 - 1 comment

So you just had to do it didn’t you Auckland… And a shout out to publicaddress for the clip (there are more here)

A disturbance in the force?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 5:36 pm, October 9th, 2007 - 23 comments

I might be coming to this belatedly (forgive me if you’ve already noticed it) but it seems the left/right blog war has heated up considerably in the last couple of weeks, and there’s some palpable right wing cyber-paranoia going on. It seems the right have got rather used to New Zealand’s blogosphere being their own […]

Land of the free?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 11:18 am, September 21st, 2007 - 3 comments

WTF? I might be a bit behind the times on this one but I’ve just come across the tasering of US journalism student Andrew Meyer on youtube and I can’t believe what I’ve seen. For those of you who don’t know, Meyer asked a question about election theft during a Q&A with John Kerry at […]

Has DPF lost his mojo?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 11:00 am, September 11th, 2007 - 8 comments

I dropped into the National Party’s Kiwiblog again last week and I must say it looks like party insider David Farrar may well be losing his “mojo”. I mean really? He’s been comparing Helen Clark’s policies to “gassing the Jews”? and running lines like: “the Government only thinks that if you question them you are […]

National fights for its right to outspend others?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 3:31 pm, August 31st, 2007 - 2 comments

I was having a look at David Farrar’s National Party blog this morning and I came across an interesting comment from one of Farrar’s regulars about why National might be so keen to knock over the Electoral Finance Bill. I’ll make it quite clear right now I’ve got my issues with the bill but I […]