As I suspected it might, TVNZ’s poll tonight tells a rather different story from the Sunday Star-Times poll out this morning. The whole of TVNZ’s poll was done after the tax cut announcement, and it has Labour ahead of National by three points, 43 plays 40. This is a closing of the eight-point gap in […]
Rod and Andrew Wilkie visited the Waihopai spy base in Marlborough this morning. The picture accompanying this post is an aerial shot of the base (thanks Wikipedia), which allows New Zealand to form part of the global US-UK-Canada-Australia-NZ intelligence system. A former British Army major, who came to meet Andrew, noted wryly:
We’ve got the balls, […]
Steve Braunias, formerly of the Listener and currently of the Sunday Star-Times, had lunch with Jeanette this week. His write-up of the encounter is typically humourous and quirky. He writes:
The lighting was low. The room was intimate. Denied a doughnut, I settled for love; at 60, Fitzsimons remains something of a poppet, with her […]
The evidence in the Sunday Star-Times today that Don Brash received advice about his toppling of Bill English from a line-up of Rogernomes should come as no surprise. He has always been thought of as a man who believed our New Right reforms of the 1980s and 1990s didn’t go far enough - as someone […]
The Sunday Star-Times has a poll out this morning, whose results should be interpreted with caution.
Overall, Labour is ahead by 1%, but National is ahead by 6% in the portion of the sample taken since the latter’s tax cut policy announcement on Monday. This may be greeted gleefully by the Right, but my inclination is […]