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Wishart has new rival

Written By: the sprout - Date published: 10:45 am, September 9th, 2010 - 14 comments

At last, the left has its own version of Investigate magazine. As you might expect it’s a bit saner and better substantiated than anything Ian Wishart’s written since his conversion, but there are obvious parallels. Hooray for the internet!

Bagehot is dead, long live Bagehot

Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:54 pm, July 4th, 2010 - 6 comments

The current incumbent of the Bagehot column at The Economist is stepping down with a few relevant comments about current relationships ebtween the politicians, journos, and the public.

The opinions could have been written about the poor state of journalism here.

National’s successes

Written By: the sprout - Date published: 3:30 pm, June 27th, 2009 - 72 comments

National’s 2008 election victory was undoubtedly a great success for the Party. Just two terms after humiliating defeat under the leadership of Bill English, National rose from the ashes to claim a convincing win. Forming a broad coalition that brought the Maori Party into the fold, thus simultaneously broadening National’s coalition options and lessening the necessity to […]

The praiseworthy and the pitiful

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 1:59 pm, March 6th, 2009 - 16 comments

Adrian Orr and Brian Fallow‘s pieces on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and the economics of long-term investment in a declining market. A+ The same arguments you’ve seen here and neat rebuttals of this ‘we’re borrowing to invest’ nonsense. Orr, the head of the Fund whose reputation is unquestioned, sums it up nicely by stating […]

The praiseworthy and the pitiful

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 3:30 pm, February 27th, 2009 - 4 comments

Trevor Mallard for getting himself into one of those complex, multi-blog conversations and pulling it off. A Started when he commented on a Kiwiblog post about the Backbenches show he was to be on that night. Mallard noted that, once again, no Nat was fronting on the show. Torrent of abuse from righties follows. Farrar asks people to […]

The praiseworthy and the pitiful

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 1:04 pm, February 20th, 2009 - 23 comments

The praiseworthy and the pitiful is our weekly post on the little things that caught our eye but didn’t lead to a full post. This week: Tracy Watkins’ new blog A best of the political journos’ blogs I reckon. Watkins has been responding to comments, showing a bit of a sassy side, and her pieces […]

The praiseworthy and the pitiful

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 12:33 pm, February 13th, 2009 - 14 comments

Lockwood Smith managing of Question Time. B. Lockwood has made a commendable effort to get ministers to answer questions and cut down on some of the other bollocks that ruins Question Time. National MPs clearly expect that after years of complaining of ministers skirting questions it’s now their turn to do it, and Lockwood has […]

The praiseworthy and the pitiful

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 1:35 pm, February 7th, 2009 - 3 comments

The praiseworthy and a pitiful is a weekly compilation of some of the comments we’ve seen around the traps that warrant some response, whether praise or criticism, whether for the substance of what has been said or the quality of the rhetoric. David Haywood’s piece on what would happen if the Herald had a ‘your […]

The praiseworthy and the pitiful

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 1:58 pm, January 30th, 2009 - 21 comments

Last year, we had The Standard Week as a regular feature on a Friday. We might resurrect that if there is popular demand but, first, I’ve been talking with some of the others and we want to try out a new Friday feature . Every week there are little comments from politicians, media, bloggers, and commenters […]