Since the Key Government came to power some 1500 jobs have gone in the state sector and a further 500 jobs will go this year. Then on TV3...
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Even at this early stage of the game, it's apparent that Mayor Sideshow Bob thinks he can boost his slim chances of re-election by gran...
LABOR PLAYS MUSICAL CHAIRS
Mike Smith is the former general secretary of the Labour Party and he is also the President of the silly old Fabian Society, presently tryin...
CAMERON'S CLASS WAR
In her goal to dismantle the welfare state and relieve her Government of the responsibility of looking after the victims of 25 years of neol...
THE CYNICAL POLITICS OF MURRAY MCCULLY
The Minister of Foreign Affairs can always be relied on not to upset his friends. Last year he refused to condemn the Israeli invasion of G...
STAYING FRIENDS WITH A MONSTER
The visit of the Chinese Vice President to New Zealand was another opportunity for the Key Government to cosy up to a brutal regime that ...
IT WAS A GAME OF TWO HALVES....
I have not talked a lot about sport on this blog, especially my passion for football and my lifelong love/hate relationship with Newcastle U...
HYPOCRITICAL STANDARD
Do you think the Key Government will take the Chinese Government to task for the way its security goons manhandled the Green's Russel N...
ALL IS NOT WELL WITH BOB'S LOYAL LIEUTENANT
A few weeks ago I suggested that if you wanted an indication of the way the political wind was blowing in Christchurch a good way to do it i...
BOB BOMBS IN LOCAL POLL
Yesterday I joined the demonstration in Cathedral Square to protest the sacking of the elected councillors of Environment Canterbury and the...
NOSES IN THE TROUGH
When the Labour Government of Helen Clark was preaching economic responsibility and restraint to the rest of us, little did we know that Chr...
BENNETT PREPARES NEW ATTACK ON THE WELFARE STATE
In March Paula Bennett launched an assault on welfare beneficiaries announcing. among other things, including tougher work tests and forci...
THE BLUE PARTY
'Fatal Paradox' pointed me to a story in the Dominion Post (July 7). Written by John Hartevelt and headlined 'Red is Dead as G...
PAUL HENRY GETS PUNKED
It was all fun and games this morning on TV1'a John Key Appreciation Show, otherwise known as Breakfast . Paul Henry was punked by one...
'KEEPING IT REAL' WITH RUSSEL G
I pointed my patented bullshit meter at the television last night when Green Party co-leader Russel Norman appeared on my screen. There wa...
MCCULLY FAILS TO CONDEMN ISRAEL - AGAIN
Israeli authorities regard Murray McCully as being 'sympathetic' to the interests of Israel and he's demonstrated that sympathy ...
A VULTURE CALLED RUPERT IS CIRCLING AROUND TVNZ
In case you hadn't noticed, TVNZ is presently congratulating itself for fifty years of television. It comes at a time when the last embe...