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I don’t want this to turn into a boring blog feud but can I just highlight how outdated and nonsensical this kind of thinking is.  National’s been trying it on for quite a while with it’s ‘a vote for Labour is a Vote for New Zealand First’ theme.  And now Labour’s fanboiz, 08wire, have responded […]

I cannot believe that I am typing this, but I have the feeling that Winston Peters, via his lawyer’s testimony to the Privileges Committee today, has just wriggled off the hook. Even Rodney Hide was squirming in his seat as Mr Henry detailed a plausible version of events where Owen Glenn rings Peters, who rings […]

There are gangs other than the type we fuss about here in New Zealand.  Such as for instance the Mafia. The Mafia does not stereotypically wear patches so they are harder to use as an easy target for the type of ‘tough on law and order‘ talk Chester Burrows, Michael Laws and Phil Goff enjoy. […]

It looks like, with an election campaign now officially underway, the government is more open to copying South Australia and considering banning gangs.  There are fairly limited details about which gangs it might choose ban although the implication is that they are the browner variety with patches, rather than the whiter ones that sail yachts.  […]

A jury in the UK decided that campaigners were justified in breaking the law because global warming is such a big threat. I can see the lawyers and the police rolling their eyes with such a precedent setting decision.
The Independent reports:
The defence of “lawful excuse” under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be […]

I’ve just been listening to the Prime Minister’s interview with Mary Wilson this evening and have got three comments I’d like to make.  First she said in relation to her not disclosing her knowledge about the conflicting evidence in relation to Mr Peters’ story relating to Mr Glenn’s $100,000 donation:
It wasn’t my job to hold […]

The Prime Minister has finally announced what we mostly knew already. Time to set your timers…

Ping pong and George Darroch both drew to my attention this article about citizen’s assemblies earlier this week and it’s one worth sharing because this is the model that the Greens propose for sorting out the Electoral Finance Act. And it’s the model that Labour has only reluctantly agreed to and National wants to throw […]

There has been a whirlwind of interest and speculation as to why the National party pulled support at the last moment for a Maori Party amendment to the Emissions Trading legislation.
The amendment would have inserted a clause giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as a targeted review of the effect of the […]

Yesterday’s rightwing blog theme finally moved on from exclusively the Winston and Helen show to bring in the Greens to the discussion. The Hive began,
With Labour today having committed suicide the Green Party will in all probability be the biggest opposition party in the next Parliament.
Then Whaleoil:
The Greens should now be making a play to […]