Gordon Brown’s gaffe is the main news in the UK. I notice a curious silence in the Left-wing blogosphere about it, except for the odious No Right Turn who thinks Brown was justified in calling Gillian Duffy (66) a bigot. Malcolm goes one further and uses the term “Bigoted Racist” for good measure. Apparently saying [...]

What an interesting bunch of reactions to the Government providing $2.6 million worth of scholarships to allow students from low-income families to attend a private school. The Herald headline gives the initial flavour of envy: $2.6m for posh-school entry under fire as elitist What exactly is a “posh” school? I am familiar with a number [...]

Paula Bennett has turned her attention to invalid beneficiaries. In a carefully worded statement, she says: “This Government will support those that cannot work. “I just want to be clear that this is not a blanket 85,000 people having to walk through the doors of Work and Income in the first month or something,” Ms [...]

I see that question time was filled with references to the UNDP Human Development Report on Human Mobility and Development and a book called The Spirit Level. No Right Turn and FrogBlog are also terribly excited about the report, as if inequality is the only thing that matters. They probably get this idea from the [...]

Treasury now predicts that the Cullen fund will be $37 billion light in a decades time ($22 billion less in payments and $15 billion loss of interest). Idiot at No Right Turn erroneously suggests that this shortfall is somehow National’s fault because they have suspended payments to the Cullen fund. He even has a graph.  [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. (MacDoctor definition) This particular piece of spam has been exciting the left wing blogs all day. Truck group gave $95,000 to MPs Trucking lobby group Road Transport Forum gave nearly $100,000 in donations to political parties and candidates for [...]

Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn uses a term I haven’t heard for quite a while – Wage Slavery. He appears to be using the term to denote the lack of choice that low income workers have in choosing their lifestyles and the hours they work. Interestingly, the first use of this term was by slavers [...]

I don’t know about you, but I find something quite refreshing about Matt McCarten’s articles. They are so unremittingly red. They are beyond simple socialism and into a place where a strange mythical working man strides the world like a colossus, wreaking havoc on greedy businessmen and delivering the poor from harm. Unlike Chris Trotter, who [...]