Our local media is so predictable. Whenever there's any good economic news, however flimsy, the media goes into cheerleading mode. There...
RIPPED OFF BY RODNEY
Yes, more tales of outrageous expense claims by 'our parliamentary representatives'. Getting most of the attention has been old Mr ...
NEOLIBERAL PROPAGANDA
The fact that TVNZ allowed Bill 'Double-Dipton' English to front the promo for TVNZ 7's Spotlight on the Economy month hardly...
CAKE FOR MARRYATT, CRUMBS FOR WORKERS
Sideshow Bob and chums demonstrating the size of Tony Marryatt's salary increase. The fat $80,000 salary increase for Christchurch City ...
BOTTOM OF THE CLASS
It was somewhat ironic that it was former Prime Minister Helen Clark who, in her role as United Nations Development Programme Administrato...
UNION OFFICIALS SURRENDER TO FACTORY CLOSURE
275 Christchurch workers have been made redundant after the Japanese owners of the Bridgestone Tyre Factory announced it would be closed by ...
'B' IS FOR BANKRUPTCY!
I've been charting the adventures of failed Christchurch property developer Dave Henderson for some time now. It's a tangled and mu...
CALL ME LOYAL
Remember Councillor Gail Sheriff? She was the Christchurch City councillor who took a ten week holiday in Bali last year - on full pay - and...
'THE GREEN PARTY HAS LOST ITS RADICAL EDGE'
Sue Bradford spoke out about her resignation from the Green Party on National Radio's Focus On Politics on 9 October This interview co...
THE NAME GAME
The Christchurch Hack Circle was an amphitheatre in the central city that, for a time, was a favourite Hacky Sack venue for Christchurch yo...
THINKING LABOUR? THINK AGAIN
Whatever way you look at them, the figures look bad. Even that eternal optimist, TV1's business reporter Corin Dann, couldn't find...
HENDERSON 'UNCOOPERATIVE'! ARE WE SURPRISED?
It will come as no surprise to Hendo followers that our 'favourite' libertarian and celebrated 'urban visionary' is runni...
ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
It was hardly a revelation by the Sunday Star Times yesterday that Sue Bradford resigned from the Green Party because she disagreed with ...
OBAMA IN NOBEL SHOCKER!
Presently engaged in a fierce and losing war in Afghanistan and also not doing very much about the violent suppression of protests by the il...
SCREWING THE SYSTEM
Screwing the system for personal financial gain is a popular activity among our Parliamentary MPs. While much of the recent focus has been o...
PSYCHIC BABBLE
Television New Zealand has descended to new levels of lunacy. Unbelievably it sent Sensing Murder medium Deb Webber to 'assist' the...
MORE COURT TIME FOR HENDO
Dave has a long history of success in business and real estate. He has proven to be a strong leader for the company and has facilitated the ...
DUMB TELEVISION
According to Maori radio presenter Dale Husband it'll be great if Maori Television gets the free to air rights to the World Cup Rugby r...
WAR CRIMES AND THE CULT OF THE IDIOT
THE GHOST Robert Harris (Arrow) Quite by chance, I was about two-thirds through this novel when the film director Roman Polanski was arreste...
CHARLES DARWIN: RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY
While Darwin's science was revolutionary, Darwin himself was not. Ian Angus examines the politics of evolution. In 1846, Karl Marx and F...
FOR SALE: A BIG HOLE IN THE GROUND
Despite silly stories in the media about the recession being 'over', none of the economic news suggests that all. Take troubled fina...
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