I think your example is a bad one. Trump's policies - as repugnant as they are - are he genuinely held. He is authentically ... Donald Trump, and people like that. John Key is able to project a 'nice guy made good' persona, that attracts many. Slick PR ...
So, people like someone with a set of principles, who leads with a little humility and authenticity. God forbid. Most of those things are what people liked about Thatcher FFS. Its what I like about Little. better a principled opposition than an ...
Hold on, I thought we sold a whole lot of assets to build new hospitals. Where are they then?
I'm celebrating the fact the labour and progressive movement can have a conversation like this. It's a bit of a meta comment... It does us no harm at all to have a good public conversation on how you analyse an issue that has obvious factors relating to ...
When I was young we had a pet sheep. Its name was "Trickle", as that's mostly what it did. I learned then what it was that trickled down on us from the 1%, and its not wealth.
Why oh why oh why is the best political commentary based in comedy? Is it because we live in times so pooched, so b0rked, so utterly frelled, that all we can do is laugh?
The phrase "expectation of privacy" is useful here. I thought you were a journalist...?
Yeah, its called ephemera. You should see the stuff at the Hocken on the Springbok Tour, and the anti-apartheid movement in general: its pure research gold. Pamphlets, posters, recordings... To think that collecting cultural material, published and ...
Though the library may keep a copy of the blog, they are quite within their rights to restrict access to it. Journals, correspondence and company records are exactly the kind of thing that libraries like to collect, because they are rich primary sources ...
I'm personally pleased that the UK is heading towards proportional representation. In the most English of manners of course, arse backwards, blinkered to the rest of the world and screaming.
I'm so proud of the Dunedin City Council progressively voting for divesting from investments in oil and guns. It nice to see something positive for a change. The Councillors who voted against the move range from the short sighted and crusty, through the ...
About to take the dogs out for a walk, and then a whole lot of chores around the flat. Thanks David!
A dodgy US businessman now has most of the priceless NZ newspaper archives, and his business has gone bung. the best thing would be for the government to fund scanning and making all of these open access (with a CC-BY licence) so we can share, research and...
Would he rather be lightly roasted by Sandy Tosksvig? I don't think so...
I think Key has gone to get his photo taken with Abbot at the cricket. They can share exit strategies together.
I'm looking forward to the photo of Abbot and Key at the cricket tonight. Two increasingly marginalised losers.. So, does this result mean the media will be more prone to report on Hager's book? I'm assuming the scandal of a 'prominent New Zealander' who ...
NZ has turned from the quiet kid at the back of the class who didn't speak, but when they did everyone listened, to the wee one behind the bully, waiting to get a kick in once their victim is down.
The discussion has been about the consciously planned use of nukes. What about an accident? It has only been through pure luck that a weapon hasn't detonated accidentally. Schlosser's book on the history of nuclear weapon 'safety' isn't perfect, but it is ...
Revolution vs Reform. Discuss...
As a Librarian, all I can say is, 'Ook'.
The thing about having a B. Com., is that I can manage someone who can actually do things, rather than having to know how to do them myself.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Don't read this love letter from the US business community to the TPPA unless you are not prone to nausea. I mean, real people wrote this... And don’t worry – I love your trade promotion authority as if she were my own family. I’m ready to adopt her today ...
Its here: its more about humorous art, than cartoons specifically. http://www.biennaleumorismo.it/ [edited with better link]
Someone could commission a cartoon competition with an appropriate theme - open to everyone. I'm sure we could get a judging panel of humour-positive people from each party. The Italians have one every year. Would the Standard be interested in hosting it? ...
The news is there to carry the advertising - that's the first lesson any journalist learns. The front page of the first edition of the Times was classified ads. There is nothing sinister about this - ads are information in their own right, and its good to ...
It serves me very well indeed. In fact, it means i'm alive right now, thanks to antibiotics, insulin, surgery, .... Science is complicated, and a few examples, fortunately, don't undermine the basic method. I have some interest in the insulin hypothesis of...
And here is the problem. Distrust of commercial imperatives in the medical-industrial-agricultural complex, which is laudible, leads to extremes of public behaviour that includes the anti-fluoridation and anti-vaccination movements, which have their own ...
I know nothing about farming. Nada, zilch. I remember hearing an RNZ documentary about the effects of destocking - lowering the number of cows - and the effect that can have of on the profitability of a farm - fewer cows, fewer inputs, higher relative ...
David Grey was my first thought as well. Its shameful that politicians are using this as a way to defend their anti-democratic impulses. I saw Tau Henare testing the line for National on twitter - I assume it worked well for them, so Key was able to wheel ...
$400 a week rent is why the Nasty Nats want to sell state houses. So their slumlord friends are not being undercut by the state. Though I applaud Little's recent appeals to the petite bourgeoisie (the small business owners) I think special attention needs ...
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