Written By: - Date published: 1:38 pm, September 26th, 2018 - 157 comments
National has launched an online petition against the culling of Tahrs, an animal that has been culled for years pursuant to a plan that was finalised by National in 1993.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, September 21st, 2018 - 137 comments
Jacinda Ardern has made the right call by sacking Meka Whaitiri as a Minister.
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, September 20th, 2018 - 37 comments
Two prominent men chose to celebrate Suffrage day yesterday, one by having himself photographed in front of female members of his caucus and the other by complaining that at different times different groups of men also did not have the vote.
Written By: - Date published: 7:45 am, September 19th, 2018 - 14 comments
Andrew Little is seeking a Youth MP using an unusual technique.
Written By: - Date published: 8:16 am, September 17th, 2018 - 42 comments
Simon Bridges has caused jaws to drop everywhere by comparing Jacinda Ardern to Donald Trump.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, August 28th, 2018 - 106 comments
Simon Bridges has now been leader of the Opposition for six months. What has he to show for his time? People are questioning his judgment over his fixation on who leaked his travel information early.
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, August 27th, 2018 - 187 comments
National intends to continue with its investigation into who the leaker of Simon Bridges’s travel expense information was
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, August 22nd, 2018 - 164 comments
Judith Collins has been caught tweeting more fake news. And repeating it just in case we missed it.
Written By: - Date published: 8:20 am, August 14th, 2018 - 102 comments
Simon Bridges has kept the story about his over the top spending on limos and hotels alive by making contradictory statements and by suggesting without proof that the leak of the information is all Labour’s fault.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 9th, 2018 - 69 comments
The Project has called on Judith Collins to delete her tweet retweeting a link to a fake news story falsely claiming that France had legalised paedophilia at the behest of an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise paedophilia.
Written By: - Date published: 7:46 am, August 7th, 2018 - 26 comments
Rookie National MP Dan Bidois has chosen to get up early and count the number of cars using Northcote’s T3 traffic lane.
Written By: - Date published: 4:51 pm, August 6th, 2018 - 113 comments
Judith Collins has tweeted news from a fake news website and demanded that Jacinda Ardern does something about something that has not actually happened.
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, July 8th, 2018 - 354 comments
Lauren Southern’s cancelled lecture has caused some debate about what freedom of speech is, is it absolute, and if not where is the line to be drawn?
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, July 4th, 2018 - 42 comments
* according to Alex Jones on Infowars.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 27th, 2018 - 102 comments
National has claimed that Jacinda Ardern ruled out national strikes during the last year’s election campaign. And has trimmed a video and taken comments out of context to justify its claim.
Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, June 24th, 2018 - 37 comments
The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 40 comments
Day one of her life and New Zealand is basking in the birth of the Prime Minature.
Written By: - Date published: 2:17 pm, June 18th, 2018 - 26 comments
Twitter in the right hands can be a very dangerous thing. As shown by Jessica Williams when she questioned the intellectual grunt of the taxpayers union in this series of tweets.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 31st, 2018 - 6 comments
The difference between running a professional well organised campaign and a chaotic shambles can be slight.
Written By: - Date published: 12:53 pm, May 26th, 2018 - 52 comments
The Twitter hashtag #twyfordaccusations has been set up to allow people to speculate on what other nefarious allegations will be made against Phil Twyford by Judith Collins.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 20th, 2018 - 20 comments
Aaron Schlossberg, American Attorney and Trump Supporter, and someone who thinks people speaking Spanish to each other in a New York restaurant poses some sort of existential threat to the Union is this week’s doofus of the week.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, May 19th, 2018 - 64 comments
National’s claims about Labour’s health spend suffer from the not insignificant problem that they do not make any sense when analysed.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, May 9th, 2018 - 36 comments
Algorithms are a form of fascism – yet a fascism from data manipulation rather than from the state. Are they a threat to our democracy?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 1st, 2018 - 101 comments
Last weekend ACT had a protest against charter schools and spent in the vicinity of $10,000 to get maybe 50 people to attend. They should have gone to Labour Hire.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2018 - 189 comments
Conversations on overpopulation are so often framed in a way that is racist and fail to acknowledge the unfair distribution and use of resources. With the added dimension of seeking to punish the poor for problems created by the economically secure.
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, March 10th, 2018 - 157 comments
An occasional post where we celebrate the extremely banal or bad taste or idiotic behaviour in politics.
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, February 8th, 2018 - 17 comments
Over in America Republican intellectual genius Paul Ryan tweeted how a School teacher who will receive $1.50 extra per week because of Republican tax cuts was grateful for the increase. But it did not go down well …
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 20th, 2017 - 52 comments
A couple of recent examples suggests that National’s social media game is well below standard. And Judith Collins is no longer the Parliamentary Queen of twitter.
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 am, November 19th, 2017 - 8 comments
Robert Peston in the Spectator has analysed the social media performance of the two big parties in the United Kingdom and has concluded that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour had a significant advantage over Theresa May’s conservatives.
Written By: - Date published: 6:27 am, November 4th, 2017 - 4 comments
For a brief moment, the internets rejoiced.
Written By: - Date published: 8:12 am, October 21st, 2017 - 68 comments
This is the first Labour Government of the digital age. How progressives respond to social media attacks may be crucial to its success.
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