Success for National Govt – new bank opens!
Nothing quite spells “success” like a new Food Bank opening in a community near you.
politics
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The Ideal And The Real: The BDS Movement and Palestine’s Future
Peace in Northern Ireland was not negotiated by idealists, but by realists. Peace in Palestine will, likewise, be the achievement of those who begin with the situation as it is, not as it should be, or, as it was.
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GUEST BLOG: Sam Gribben – Standing up to Talleys
On Thursday, Talley’s Group Ltd was fined for its role in the death of Leighton Muir, a Kiwi bloke in his 20s who was decapitated on a Talley’s tuna vessel. According to a Muir family friend, Leighton was “a happy, hard-working young man who always had a great big, beaming smile.”
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Came a crooked woman on a crooked path: Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Democratic rig
The problem for Clinton is that Bernie Sander supporters see her as a prime example of everything that is wrong in American politics, not a solution to it.
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Latest Internal Polling – National in trouble
The impact of the Memorandum of Understanding has triggered something deep in the electorate if the latest internal polling is anything to go by.
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Liars, thieves and cheats
It has been revealed that the government agency responsible for enforcing employment rights tried to cover up the widespread abuse of the Holiday Act by employers in this country.
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Political Marriage? Green, Red, Brown, Black and Blue
Last week’s memorandum of understanding between the Labour and Green Parties will prove to be a wise move if it helps the combined Labour-Green vote to reach 48% or more. It seems a hard ask though, even in the event that the economy tanks next year.
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#BlackGreen or Black And Blue – A Response To One News’ Corin Dann’s NZ First Political Prognostications
As we move closer and closer to the climactic events of the 2017 General Election, an ever-increasing (if not outright bewildering) array of political journalists, talkback radio hosts, and errant blubbery bloggers will mysteriously transmogrify themselves into ungainly combinations of soothsayer-entrail-readers spliced with Buzzfeed-grade clickbait provisioners.
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Dear TPPA Activists – Why we must protest the visiting US warship
Dear TPPA Activists How are you? I know, frustrated and angry. Watching Key with the aid of Phil Goff ram…
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Internal Party Polling
NZers have had polls presented like Sports results so the constant ‘National 48-Labour 30″ message is like month after month of your team losing.