Take control of ACT. Ensure ACT survives past November and is a viable coalition partner for National. Take a ministerial portfolio in the next government. Assume a more important portfolio as the Key charm begins to wear off in the second term, and as the tide begins to turn. Finance, for example. Become Deputy PM.…
So I managed to do my big presentation today, and now it’s done. I’d been working on it all week, and it had been doing my head in. I think it went well. It’s pretty hard to interest a bunch of hard-nosed IP lawyers when the topic you have to speak about is IP licensing,…
Well, yesterday sure was a big one. World IP Day is always keenly awaited by the IP profession, and this year’s event was huge. It started with a champagne breakfast, but that ended when one of my colleagues slapped a cease and desist order on the cafe for not using the more appropriate term Methode…
It’s no secret that Don Brash is planning a new political party. I’ve had leaked to me a copy of the main policies of this new party, and here they are. Find evidence that John Key was born in Kenya. Sir Michael Fay to be appointed SOE Minister. Sell advertising space on the NZ flag. …
Uncompromising left-wing columnist and Chairman of the Workers Solidarity Party of Aotearoa, Bob Mittsky, returns with a new column. Comrades! I sensed yesterday that something was up, but it’s even worse that I feared. The military apparatus of our fascist state have been in full mobilisation this morning. By dawn forward elements had seized the…
When I read Shayne Philpott’s rugby story in the news the other day it brought a lot of things back to me. Things I thought I had put behind me. It also brought back a few tears. Some things are just so painful they never really left you. Philpott was a handy utility back in…
There were renewed calls today for Labour Party leader Phil Goff to step down, after another disastrous day for the party. The party were holding their annual Waitakere Cake Fair this morning when a series of unfortunate events left attendees questioning the Labour leader’s competence. The event is held each year to raise funds for…
Conservative columnist Dr Frank Shizenhausen injects some common sense into the immunisation debate. Sir Peter Gluckman, the government’s Chief Science Adviser, has bemoaned the low rates of vaccination in this country. Well he would, wouldn’t he? But I’ve always objected strongly to immunisation for the simple reason that I don’t trust doctors. I’ll tell you…
Aha! Just as I thought! That Jenny Shipley woman was on the telly on Sunday morning saying that the Chinese don’t want our land. No, she said, they want our protein. Well I’m not giving up mine without a fight. I don’t know what sort of awful surgical instruments they’ll use on us when it…
Imperator Fish 
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