While the media were quick to pounce on Sir Roger Douglas for spending some $65,000 ($44,000 air travel) on travel - basically holidays for...
A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
Having been struck down with the flu for the last couple of days, I've been watching a little of the proceedings in Parliament - althou...
BENNETT BASHES BENEFICIARIES
In another truly inept interview Close Up's Mark Sainsbury managed to avoid asking the Minister of Social Development and Employment th...
BENNETT MUST RESIGN - OR BE SACKED
The Minister for Social Development has certainly put her foot in it this time. After two solo mothers criticised cutbacks to a training all...
JIM KILLS THE JIM PARTY
Jim Anderton is insulting our intelligience when he says that Progressive Party members - how many are there, anyway? - can now also join th...
THE PARTY NEVER ENDS ON WALL STREET...
After sucking up billions from the US taxpayer, the fat cats on Wall Street look like they are returning to the lavish lifestyles they are a...
THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
There is an underlying assumption in the world of New Zealand mainstream politics that there is no alternative to neoliberal economics. You...
WORKERS BESEIGED BY RIOT POLICE
The two biggest stories in the New Zealand media of late have been the death of a celebrity (Michael Jackson) and a lurid murder case (Clayt...
CHRIS TROTTER: GOFF'S GOT TO GO
Although I didn't hear it myself on Saturday - I've listened to it since - Labour leader Phil Goff had some interesting things to sa...
HENRY AND THE JUDGE
New Zealand likes putting people in prison. In fact we're pretty good at it. According to Statistics NZ more than three-quarters of OE...
NOTHING NEW FROM GOFF
The Hurrah-For-Labour! blog, which goes by the alias The Standard , was hyping up a Phil Goff video the other day. According to The Standar...
FRENCH WORKERS THREATEN TO BLOW UP FACTORY
From The Guardian (July 13): First there was boss-napping, now angry workers at a factory in France have come up with a new tactic in their ...
FORMER LWR WORKERS SOLD OUT BY THE NDU
The news that clothing manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin owes Westpac Bank some $111 million is more bad news for the 186 former LWR workers. ...
FAT CAPITALISM
We're fat! That's what a new OECD report tells us in very stark terms The Health Care Data 2009 report says that we are the third f...
HISTORY OF A REVOLUTION
Well worth watching on Stratos TV (Sky 89) is the six part documentary series PLO: History of a Revolution Filmmaker Omar al-Issawi spent si...
WILLE JACKSON TALKS NONSENSE
I don't have much time for the politics of Willie Jackson. Anyone who has heard him on his Radio Live show will know he peddles the rea...
A STRANGE SILENCE FALLS ON THE BLOGOSPHERE...
The appointment of Laila Harre to the Auckland Transitional Authority has been met with a strange silence by the Labour-leaning blogs. Usual...
'EDDIE' CHANGES HER TUNE
Here's 'Eddie' - aka Jenny Michie, Labour Party communications officer - writing about the Auckland 'supercity' on May 1...
JOHN MINTO: HARRE SELLS OUT TO BIG BUSINESS
John Minto has written an excellent column on Laila Harre's appointment to a human resources role at the Auckland Transition Agency.The...
A CHANGING OF THE GUARDS AT THE NDU
There's been a changing of the guards at the National Distribution Union. Laila Harre is leaving the post as national general secretary ...
CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?
There has been a consistent pattern by mainstream commentators for most of this year to imply that the worst of the economic downturn is ove...
RADIO BOUNCING CHEQUE
I came across an interesting website a few weeks ago. It's called For The Love of Mike: The Maybury Story and its devoted to a New Zea...
'EDDIE' EXPOSED
'Eddie' is a regular blogger on the Labour-aligned blog The Standard . 'Eddie' is always attacking John Key and his National...
OPINION OVERLOAD
I tuned into the debut of Bomber's Blog (Stratos TV, Sky 89 9.15pm) last night to see what it was all about. Basically its Martyn ...
CNN BACKS MILITARY COUP IN HONDURAS
People who are interested in following what is happening in Honduras may like to check out Eva Golinger's blog Postcards From the Revol...
UNEMPLOYMENT SOARS IN THE UNITED STATES
There has been further confirmation that the United States economy is in deep trouble. Despite the billions of taxpayer dollars injected int...
'EDDIE' THE WINDBAG
Over on The Standard 'Eddie', who still thinks Labour is a social democratic party, was all outraged today. He was outraged because...
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