John Key continues to say there will be no move to raise the retirement age while he is PM. Any tinkering with the retirement age is politically risky, even if our ageing population and rising life expectancy suggest an increase at some point is inevitable. Many countries in the OECD are now moving or have…
Now updated with even more apologising! It’s time for me to grovel and beg forgiveness. Occasionally I get it wrong. I’ve done it before. In an effort to be witty or clever I end up making an arse of myself and then have to fix what I’ve done. I’ve always considered it important to own…
After watching tonight’s National Party election campaign advert I now understand their “Brighter Future” slogan. John Key is obviously promising that if National wins the election he’ll invest more in stage lighting. It was also a bold move to film the National Party ad using someone’s mobile phone, don’t you think? I wonder why they…
Who cares? We won.
The main political parties have traded accusations of politicising public holidays and the Rugby World Cup. The claims and counterclaims come during an increasingly bitter election campaign. Both main political parties have used social media to accuse the other of breaking electoral rules. On Thursday prominent National Party affiliated blogger and columnist David Farrar claimed…
From the Herald: Meanwhile, Yorkshireman Dave Ellis – who is in charge of the French defence – has revealed the team found strength to beat the All Blacks when they faced each other in 2007 by adopting a Spartan siege mentality. He told the Daily Mail that the Spartans against a million soldiers theme depicted…
It’s hard work at the best of times for political parties to attract good candidates. But it’s doubly so for the two main parties, because all the smaller parties are so quick to secure the urine-drinking bank-robbing identity-thieves, leaving National and Labour only the boring and sensible candidates to choose from. Apart from the woman-bothering…
The media are reporting that the National Finance boss has been jailed for six years. I know Bill English has been a pretty useless finance minister, but still that’s harsh.
We’re on the verge of our first World Cup triumph since 1987, and it looks as if the only thing standing in our way is a suspect-looking French team. Sure, 1999 and 2007 and all that, but the current lot don’t look to have the firepower to stun us as those two French teams did.…
Imperator Fish 
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