According to Mayor Sideshow Bob it's 'constructive' that local people have had their basic democratic rights trampled over wit...
VOTES DON'T COUNT, SAYS SIDESHOW BOB
While the behaviour of our elected 'representatives' rarely surprises me, I'm appalled that Ministers Nick Smith and Rodney Hi...
CHEERLEADING FOR GERRY
If you needed another reason why we need a strong public service television network, then you only had to take a look at TV3's new stab ...
EARTH HOUR FLOPS
I hope everyone ignored the corporate propaganda spectacle otherwise known as Earth Hour. I did. While I was watching television I happe...
IS HENDO GOING NUTS?
The 'urban visionary' threw a bit of a wobbly last week. There was food festival in SOL Square last weekend which saw local singer T...
LET THEM EAT CAKE
I sometimes wonder why people send me nasty emails. I have had emails that are obscene/defamatory//incoherent. In fact I have had emails tha...
EARTH HOUR: CORPORATE GREENWASH
I wrote extensively about Earth Hour last year and my intention was just to ignore it this year, especially since it appears to have lost i...
ANOTHER BENNETT BLUNDER
Oh dear. The Minister for Social Development has shot herself in the foot again. Last year Paula Bennett trampled all over privacy legislati...
THE UGLY FACE OF PAULA BENNETT
PAUL LOVES PAULA 'The week, I have to say, belongs to Paula Bennett. She connects. She speaks normally. She talks the average person...
READING FROM THE LEFT
A few months ago a reader of this blog, ''Country Lane'' asked if I could point him in the direction of some socialist mate...
ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE WITH THE FABIAN SOCIETY
What's wrong with the Labour Party? It's an important question and one that this blog has addressed on many an occasion but if you ...
YOUTH HEALTH CENTRE FACING CLOSURE
Today several hundred people gathered to protest the likely closure of the 198 Centre in central Christchurch. The 198 Centre is free drop-i...
MEDIA MADNESS
I imagine Labour MP Charles Chauvel has been reflecting on the state of the New Zealand media over the last couple of days. Indeed, choosing...
SIDELINING PUBLIC BROADCASTING
I find it bitterly ironic that the people now tubthumping about the prospect of TVNZ being privatised are the very people who had nothing to...
WORLD PEOPLE'S CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
With the industrialised countries failing to come to grips with climate change - as the debacle of Copenhagen demonstrated = a World People...
GREEK UNIONS SHOW HOW IT IS DONE
In Greece yesterday skirmishes broke out between riot police and protesters as unions and workers stepped up their resistance to the aus...
PSA OFFICIALS REFUSE TO FIGHT JOB CUTS
The Government's austerity drive is now targeting the state sector, despite the fact that John Key and the National party said during t...
IS MARK SAINSBURY THE NEW DAVID HARTNELL?
You might recall a TVNZ promo from two years or so ago which featured Mark Sainsbury explaining to an unseen interviewer what his job was as...
FABIAN FOLLY
I imagine that most people who read this blog have heard of the Fabian Society. Some though might have assumed that it had gone out of exis...
ANOTHER BLOW FOR HENDO
This week our mate Dave surprisingly took up an option to buy back one of the five properties he sold to the Christchurch City Council for ...
IN SEARCH OF THE LABOUR LEFT
Some of you might have seen Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet which TV1 have slotted away in an unattractive 9.30pm slot on a Friday night...
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