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John Oliver on Key: Every pic is a dic pic

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:30 am, October 20th, 2015 - 36 comments

John Key provides a never ending flow of material for John Oliver’s show Last Week Tonight.

TVOne’s reporting of the latest Colmar Brunton Poll result

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:16 am, October 20th, 2015 - 90 comments

The latest Colmar Brunton poll shows that the opposition block is solidly ahead of National. Yet One News chose to concentrate only on the preferred Prime Minister result and attack Andrew Little because of marginal change.

Anat Shenker-Osorio on the creation of left metaphors

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:50 am, October 11th, 2015 - 69 comments

Communications Anat Shenker-Osorio has some simple messages for Labour in its quest for Government. The left’s strongest advantage is its care for people rather than the economy and the message that will resonate is a positive one emphasising the care of people and the environment.

What happened to Mike Sabin’s bill?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:08 am, October 10th, 2015 - 22 comments

In March of this year National recycled a private member’s bill that Mike Sabin originally championed. The bill if enacted would have permitted a Judge to draw an adverse inference from a defendant facing child sex abuse charges exercising the right to silence. The bill was in the list of private members bills released on […]

WINZ dysfunctional

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:07 pm, October 5th, 2015 - 22 comments

I guess it’s not exactly news that WINZ is dysfunctional, but its interesting to have some actual data on one of the symptoms. Bonus feature – one of the Nats’ worst excuses ever.

Speech to UN height of hypocrisy

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:52 am, October 3rd, 2015 - 34 comments

Key’s little lecture to the UN would have been delivered with a lot more moral authority if it wasn’t built on the heights of hypocrisy.

An R-101 Post

Written By: Bill - Date published: 12:08 pm, October 2nd, 2015 - 89 comments

Someone once made an art-work of a brick with some ‘guy ropes’ attached to represent the ill fated R-101 airship…

Kiwiblog supports anti TPPA protest

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:17 pm, October 1st, 2015 - 24 comments

Kiwiblog is advertising the TPPA Ministerial protest promoted by the Its Our Future website.

Diesel Bomb

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:53 am, October 1st, 2015 - 37 comments

Last Friday I wrote a post on Volkwagen gaming NOx emissions. This is a follow up.

Pandas WTF?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:01 am, October 1st, 2015 - 41 comments

Pandas – one lightweight piece of fluff too far?

English: it’s all the planners’ fault

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:00 am, September 30th, 2015 - 23 comments

A guest post from Ad analysing Bill English’s speech where he blames planners for Auckland’s housing woes.

Key pinches Labour’s Kermadec Sanctuary Policy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:00 am, September 30th, 2015 - 88 comments

National’s announced intention to create a marine sanctuary around the Kermadec Islands looks remarkably like Labour’s policy from the last election. And why did John Key not tell his caucus beforehand?

Commentary on research cuts

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:50 pm, September 29th, 2015 - 11 comments

It’s not just lefties such as yours truly who think it’s mad to cut agricultural (especially emissions) research.

Christianity doesn’t compromise with other religions

Written By: tracey - Date published: 7:58 am, September 29th, 2015 - 115 comments

Christianity doesn’t compromise with other religions or has the World Finally Gone madder?

Campbell: The TPP dairy deal is done

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:50 pm, September 28th, 2015 - 63 comments

Gordon Campbell (one of the last known practitioners of the dying art of journalism) claims that the TPP dairy deal is already done. He makes a convincing case.

The decline of the Herald

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:03 am, September 27th, 2015 - 103 comments

Mass redundancies at the Herald have been described as a blood bath and are clearly having an effect on its quality. Such is its quality there is a question whether the political column this morning was written by a part time travel writer or by Heather du Plessis-Allan.

AgResearch cuts include greenhouse gas research – of course

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:28 pm, September 25th, 2015 - 29 comments

Cutting research into greenhouse gases? With our emissions profile? Now? This can’t possibly be mere stupidity. This must be willful blindness.

NOx-ious shit all around.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 7:49 am, September 25th, 2015 - 109 comments

Been trying to get my head around the implications of Volkswagen’s rigged diesel performance tests. Predictably, and unlike most stories covering this, I couldn’t give a rat’s arse for the financial woes the company might be facing.

Pandas for everyone

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 1:25 pm, September 22nd, 2015 - 56 comments

John Key is trying to divert attention away from the numerous problems the country is facing by talking about pandas.

Corbyn rides a commie bike!

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:46 am, September 16th, 2015 - 100 comments

The subtle and not so subtle demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn by England’s establishment media is going to be something to behold.

This Government’s priorities

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:52 am, September 16th, 2015 - 37 comments

In recent news it has been stated that the Government has let Serco off fines totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars while at the same time it is sneaking through retrospective changes to the law to deny thousands of beneficiaries money they are otherwise entitled to.

All the left wants is a clean contest of ideas

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:56 am, September 15th, 2015 - 153 comments

Josie Pagani yesterday chose as a left wing commentator to condemn Jeremy Corbyn’s politics as being based on narcissism where hard decisions never need to be made, and the unpopularity of a policy was evidence not of its failure but of its virtue. She should have analysed his history before making these claims. And in the interests of balance the media really needs to choose left wing commentators who will proudly stand up and support progressive ideals rather than repeat right wing attack lines.

UK – Cameron loses his shit, new members flood to Labour

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 6:10 am, September 14th, 2015 - 183 comments

Cameron hysterical tweet

Inside National’s spin machine

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:32 am, September 11th, 2015 - 81 comments

A very interesting post in The Herald yesterday by Grant McLachlan (former Parliamentary researcher and a Nat campaign director) detailing National’s well resourced and well organised spin machine.

MPs are harmful to digital communications

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:23 am, September 11th, 2015 - 21 comments

As anticipated, what is the first complaint at this site under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015? Not from a kid cyber-bullied by the classmates. But by an adult trying to stifle legitimate criticism and analysis of what they wrote and distributed digitally. And they didn’t read what they were required to do under the act.

The left like Red Peak flag coz Nazis

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:19 am, September 7th, 2015 - 74 comments

According to Cameron Slater the left support the Red Peak flag coz the Nazis used to brand political prisoners with a red triangle that looks like an upside down red flag.

Syrian refugees – National backs down

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:16 am, September 7th, 2015 - 73 comments

The backtrack is under way. Last week National was not budging on refugee numbers. Today they will announced an urgent passage allowing for the intake of more Syrian refugees. The focus groups have spoken. Update: and the announcement is for 600 new refugees over 3 years and $4,9 million in increased aid.