Don't get sad, get even. Let this galvanise us into action.
He spells it HOOTON. Easy to remember, it's his riding instruction. Get on all media possible and hoot on about Labour's failings.
Watch those stereotypes, pet. I wear pearls and use a landline, and would be delighted if the Greens governed alone! However, in my electorate it makes more sense to vote Labour. That broad church, even room for pearly old me!
Congratulations and welcome to Godzone as a citizen. Now you are just as responsible as the rest of us for making this a better place to live in. Good luck in all your endeavours!
It would be hard to envisage a similar chain of events occurring with a solo father, wouldn't it? Theoretically, just possible; but in practical terms, Metiria's story is that of the female obstacle race, wearily familiar to the women who comment here. ...
Good. About time. Now let's not just sit here....
With all those big time crooks surrounding our ruling party and funding it, we go hard out to demolish small-time offenders like Metiria instead, and say look how clean our hands are and how upstanding our moral principles. What a bloody stupid country we ...
Gower's probably trying to re-establish his cred and get back in his editor's and Brownlees' good books after his Jacinda throbby piece.
You can get it from me, too. Your circumstances were in no way similar. The way you have written it, it sounds like you relied on prostitution for five weeks. Is this what you meant to imply? Well, that would certainly help avoid having to rely on the ...
Three cars per household? Shiver me timbers. Are all this government's best buddies oil importers, car salesmen, or road builders? Because Auckland infrastructure seems to have been organised around the needs of these groups, not the needs of commuters. We...
I'm probably old enough to be your grandmother and I already know how to suck eggs, ta.
On another thread I have already mentioned reading that book. I bought it when it was first published. Her experience as a cabinet member while pregnant and later breastfeeding would be totally germane to the current rather obsessed discussions about prime...
Why are none of those enterprising journos attempting to interview Ruth Richardson about how she managed a ministerial portfolio while breastfeeding, in Parliament? We have been there before, you know.
Andrew Dean's book gives one a lot to chew over, and is well backed by facts. I endorse savenz's recommendation.
The Parliamentary year - and consequently, its timetable, was originally based on the production cycles of farmers from the 1800s. Chaps with domestic and constituency help (known as wives, usually). It's definitely time for a complete overhaul of working ...
I butted in on a boys' snigger session in the BTL Guardian comments last week and got the "Women- know your place!" putdown. To which I replied: I rather think I have just taken it.
Thanks for that link. Wondered how the US Mafia and the Russian Mafia intersected. Looks like Trump is the smoking gun. Shocking stuff.
That's twice here you have put words into my mouth. Where did I make any statement at all about Hosking's pay rate? Where is my so-called "ridiculous claim" about Hosking? My concern was with his lack of education and life experience, and his access to ...
You take the wrong point, and then make a worse one. The harsh judgement is all your projection. Kirk had a variety of jobs and life experience, mixing with all sorts and learning as he went. I have no problem with his career path. Hosking, by contrast, ...
Much less. Hosking was an early school leaver, and his qualifications are - what, exactly?
Mademoiselle Ardern, I believe.
Mr Brillo and I were discussing the ...
Greg, put the devices away and get on with your homework.
I've been feeling a shaming degree of schadenfreude over all those weeping, snarling, teeth-gnashing fanbois flooding so much netspace with their manly tears over the casting of a female Doctor. It has, however, provided many women with the opportunity to ...
So, John Key says that his shiny new gong from Australia is "more an indication of the ANZAC relationship". Nope, it's an indication how grateful they are that he put up no fight at all to safeguard or improve the rights of New Zealanders in Australia. ...
Yes! There's enough here to give two each to every member of the party!
That's interesting, James - thought ours might be the only New Zealand household still doing a silent boycott of French products, pointless though it might seem to some. Maybe there's still a few of us out there with long memories and the will to act on ...
Very well put, Keith. Which journalists are able to take up the suggestion made below and follow the money? I want to know who will benefit from the massively dirty deal which is in the offing. Maggie Barry, this is NOT your finest hour.
Curiously, I was one of the people rung for the last NewsHub/TV3 poll, and along with the political questions were three about my opinion on three current news topics. I thought it must have been TV3 deciding which angle to take on news stories. One of the...
I used to work with Shane, years ago when we were both young, and I liked him then. Even though he had a bad case of "entitleitis" and was a Big Picture man, leaving the actual work to others. But over the years he has changed, and I now think he is the ...
Release the transcript, before the tape is mysteriously destroyed or burgled.
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