Deconstructing Headlines

Another privatisation of a State Asset to prop up charter schools, irrigation for failed dairy intensification and the barest infrastructure investment possible.

Nothing sums NZ up better than beggars outside luxury stores on Queen Street

while I have Westpac’s attention, did you hand over to the Police any other activist, journalist or blogger’s details the way you did with Nicky Hager?

One of the tactics used by far right political fixer Simon Lusk is to raise the hatred and spite of politics so much that people turn away from it ensuring a low voter turn out which always favours the right.

The question is has Key himself benefitted from this? The Icelandic PM has been caught out having a trust in the very banks he was supposed to be legislating against. Does John Key have a conflict of interest in keeping trust law murky because he has two ‘blind’ trusts?

The smell of rot is matched by the shrill braying of right wing pundits who not only insist Key is moderate but that criticism of a cold blooded shark like Key is a mental illness.

And yet another person has publicly stepped forward and admitted they are trying to seek medicinal cannabis to ease pain.

The eruption that will occur in Auckland as medical staff walk off the job this month is just the beginning and a lacklustre Minister like Coleman will end up looking as out of his depth as Sam Lotu-Ilga did with Corrections.