1. This potato will not lie, prevaricate, or have convenient memory lapses. 2. This potato doesn’t care who you may be talking to, emailing, tweeting or Facebooking. This potato will not try to pass laws depriving you of your civil liberties or allowing other people to monitor your communications. 3. If you chop this potato…
I don’t care for any of the arguments. The sloppy police investigation, the Privy Council ruling, the jury verdict, the Binnie Report, the new evidence suggesting Robin Bain may have loaded the gun. Even if they were able to produce video footage of Robin Bain going around his house killing his family members, nothing would…
I’m not generally a big fan of censorship or book burning, and calls to boycott a particular book usually leave me cold.But I’m going to make this an exception. Danyl McLauchlan has written a novel called Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley. Please don’t buy his book! Here’s why you shouldn’t buy his book: I…
Dear Prime Minister, It appears that we may have made a terrible mistake. We made a detailed submission outlining our concerns about your government’s plans to increase the powers of the GCSB. We expressed deep concerns about the rushed process to change the law, and about the intrusive nature of the proposed changes. We concluded…
A guest post from former MP Aaron Gilmore I see there will be a by election in Christchurch East, when Lianne Dalziel stepped down on an MP to become a candidate from mayor. I have a uniquely interesting prospective of the whole thing, as I have lived most of my life here in the east…
Labour leader David Shearer is under pressure to apologise, after Sky Sport accidentally played a television advertisement during a live All Blacks game. The advertisement was played sixteen minutes into the first half of the match against France on Saturday night, prompting numerous complaints by angry viewers. Sky Television CEO John Fellet quickly apologised for…
I now think I understand why the left has done so badly these last few years. We have fooled ourselves into thinking that the issues that matter most to people are poverty, employment and a strong economy. It turns out, though, that the crisis of our times is the plight of high-earning upwardly-mobile young professionals…
Hone Harawira, the big loser in both lists out today The 2013 Kiwiblog Readers Most Trusted List was released today, and Redbaiter has come out on top for the second year in a row. The list of 100 most trusted people is compiled annually from Kiwiblog comments sampled throughout the year, and this year…
The last time the New Zealand Herald’s pun machine broke down There were delays in the publication and distribution of this morning’s edition of the New Zealand Herald, after one of the newspaper’s machines broke down overnight. Today’s edition of the paper did not hit the news stands until late this morning, after the machinery problem…
A Marae Investigates poll has revealed that all four main candidates will comfortably win the Ikaroa-Rawhiti Poll by-election. The poll gives Meka Whaitiri of the Labour Party, Marama Davidson of the Green Party, Te Hāmua Nikora of the Mana Party, and Na Raihania of the Maori Party a healthy lead in the contest. The result…
Imperator Fish 
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