I’m a bit behind the eight-ball on this one, but outraged nonetheless. My mother told me a couple of days ago that incandescent light-bulbs are to be banned. I thought Mum was having a senior moment. “You can’t just ban light-bulbs Mum”, I said. Well, I was wrong. Apparently the government can. In fact it […]
I wrote posts during the Wellington Mayoralty about the abundance of classic cars being driven by would-be councillors – no doubt in an attempt to be noticed. It’s happening again, but with the general election. Perhaps it’s just a Wellington thing but I spotted Stephen Franks, National Party candidate for Wellington Central, driving a very […]
What a day. Helen Clark called it a ‘storm in a teacup‘. How could I have ever imagined a small thing like the acquisition of an American stock photo by a Labour Party designer could get the whole country so riled? My humble blog post today alone had 1909 hits (as of 11.20pm) – that’s […]
Why is it that whenever John Key reveals policy it’s indirectly, either by an errant backbencher, or as a result of Labour releasing their own. Tax cuts outlined in Michael Cullen’s budget forced John Key’s hand…he was left with nowhere to turn other than to suggest that his increases in cuts would be brought in […]
It’s been more than a week since I last posted…that sounds like a Catholic confession…and a lot has happened. Labour made a great and probably successful effort at losing the election via one small innocent act – four women MPs and a bad song to the tune of Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”. This has provided […]
David Slack, knowing of my deep interest in John Key alerted me to the fact that Finlay MacDonald had delivered a speech on the man, the contents of which appears on www.publicaddress.net. Thankyou David. Like many of the comments at the end of the original Public Address post Finlay’s dissertation crystallised everything that concerns me […]