Politicians love the abortion debate nearly as much as I love root-canal work. I recall, in mid 2008, Justice Forrest Miller opining that the abortion law was being flouted both in word and intent, particularly in the use of the mental health provision. There was not even a glimmer of a debate on this in the [...]
I have been following the frenzying of Labour and their aligned blogs on the John Key “Blind Trust” saga with some amusement. I note that there does not seem to be a lot of traction with this in the print media, although the Tabloid on Sunday will surely have something tomorrow, as, undoubtably, will the [...]
Sometimes I wonder if we are all missing Helen Clark. Rodney Hide has now joined the legions of people who seem to think that John Key is doing nothing. This list seems to include everyone from the left and the right, except for the right-wing centrists. Which should tell us something – namely that, whatever [...]
Presumably, journalists are starting to run out of new angles on the Tsunami story. Today in the Dom Post there is a breathless story about how John Key’s Motorcade sped past unprotected children playing by the roadside at 3 times the speed limit in Samoa apparently because John Key needed a shower before his flight. [...]
I know Granny Herald is getting old, but I had no idea she was completely senile. Key butters up Clark with Vogel’s at NY meeting NEW YORK – The relationship between Prime Minister Helen Clark and her National Party replacement John Key was anything but stale when the pair met for talks in New York [...]
So now it is official. John Key has said that National will not support John Boscawen’s bill, not even to select committee. He has even said that he will not allow it to be a conscience vote, so he is taking no chances. That is, effectively, that. Parents who smack will remain criminals and will [...]
Nats acted with sheer vindictiveness – Clark Well, she should know, shouldn’t she? Called Don Brash “Cancerous and Corrosive“ Denigrated the Exclusive Brethren because a small group of them exercised their right to be involved in political activity Produced the EFA as pay-back for the Exclusive Brethren affair Purchased Kiwirail a few months before an [...]
A fascinating insight into the mind of an unredeemed marxist can be found in John Minto’s blog today: The greatest tragedy of Taito Phillip Field is not his being the first MP in New Zealand history to be convicted of bribery, corruption and obstruction of justice. Neither is it that his career as the first [...]
The Standard is getting all excited about Helen Clark being voted “the Greatest Living New Zealander” in a recent Herald Poll. I feel a little mean trampling on this small crumb that they take away from Labour’s defeat in November, but I feel I should point out that this was a media-driven poll. It does [...]
And the Wowser of the Week award goes to the writer of this article on the government taking four weeks holiday in the middle of their “100 days of action”. The fact that governments (including the last one) have always done this has apparently escaped the writer. Wowser highlights are: Despite the global economic crisis, [...]
