GET THIS MAN A BREATH-MINT – On Shane Jones’ Proffered Fissile Probing
Earlier this week, I had read in the NZ Herald of Shane Jones reportedly trumpeting the prospect of a nuclear energy policy…
Curwen Rolinson
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Auditing The Government’s Police Numbers Strategy
An audit of 1022 police recruits that went through training between January 2024 and April 2025 reveals 128 did so despite being…
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On Trump’s ‘Victory Day’ Revisions
This is … a bold set of claims. And not least because I would have assumed VJ Day in August…
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As His Fans Scream Victory, Trump Backs Down
There’s something … odd going on. I’ve seen a bunch of comments around the place from pro-Trump Americans (and apparently…
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Yeah? Well What’re You Doing About It! – National’s Bemusing Attempted Distraction On CGT Claim
I read in my newspaper yesterday afternoon that Luxon had had a rather … odd comment in reply to ANZ’s CEO saying…
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On NZ First’s Impending Return To Parliament – Both In The Mirror & Through The Looking-Glass
There’s a quip often (and probably erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain which goes something like “History doesn’t repeat itself –…
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MUST READ: A Cost To The City – On Mayor Brown’s Most Recent Curious Initiative
It’s a curious thing watching Mayor Brown make efforts at ‘cost-saving’. In the name of this slogantastic endeavour, he’s recently…
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On The Curious Situation Of Business As Usual In Last Night’s Labour Party – The Latest Sharma Gauntlets
The latest round of Sharma disclosures are, sorry to say, “politics as usual” on pretty much all fronts. It doesn’t…
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On National’s Uffindell And The Lack Of A Statute Of Limitations In Politics
So, in the wake of last night’s breaking news as to Luxon’s man in Tauranga, we of the Lumpen Commentariat that…
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On The Meaning Of Richard Prosser – A Saddening Post-Mortem
I saw reporting (at first on twitter, and then in my personal messages) that Richard Prosser has died. I do…