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 [...]

Did you miss me? Exams and a recalcitrant internet connection have kept me away from blogging until today. Not sure if I have missed much. Perhaps the best summary of the last 10 days is: “politicians lie”. Not exactly earth-shaking stuff. Exhibit A: The Thrilling One denies that his daughter has ever taken drugs, despite [...]

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 [...]

I am not a big fan of GST. I appreciate it is a consumption tax and therefore inherently much fairer because it taxes all people, equally. I also understand that it has a small positive effect on savings, as it discourages spending (a little). The reason I am not a fan is entirely personal – [...]

Hark! What is that strange disembodied twittering that I hear? Is it a ghost? A telephone answering machine? a vague afterthought? Yes! It’s all three ! It’s the Invisible Phil… Once again, Phil abandons invisibility in order to utter an inanity. It’s rather like watching a Klingon Bird of Prey on Star Trek, de-cloaking and [...]

I see the thrill of Phil is fading fast. The latest Colmar Brunton poll sees him sliding down four points to 5%. That’s barely above the margin of error. I don’t think I recall even Bill English ever dipping below double figures in a Colmar Brunton poll. And Labour is now on 31%, which is [...]

I see that Phil Goff has just revealed the depth of his fiscal ignorance in a speech to federated farmers. I note that he is not actually saying that the Reserve Bank is a waste of time (almost certainly true) but that the policy targets should be liberalised to include a whole bunch of others. [...]

The left’s pointless inquiry into bank rates has now been released and can be accessed here. It says it is the Report of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Banking but it is not, of course, an official parliamentary inquiry, it is a Labour/Jim’s Vanity Party/Green inquiry and has no official government sanction as far as I [...]

Phil Goff now admits that Labour made “mistakes.” Mr Goff said he wanted to “draw a line under the past”, citing unpopular policies such as those telling people what size shower heads and which lightbulbs they could use. “We’d stopped listening to what people’s priorities were and seemed to be working on issues they thought [...]

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 [...]