Framing fires
Parliament is sitting today, and the 2009 session rightly opened with a unanimous motion of support for those affected by the Victoria bushfires. The events themselves have been very thoroughly covered...
View ArticleThe glow of the furniture, piled high for firewood
There’s been much analysis, wisdom, whimsy, and snark about Gerry Brownlee’s plans to mine the conservation estate. But rather than talk about it, I’m going to repair to a rather dubious poll from...
View ArticleFalse mean
I never get tired of this cartoon. It reminds me what being a Sensible Moderate™ is not at all about. The latest proposal for the foreshore and seabed is PC gone mad — put it in the public domain, but...
View ArticleTeapot Tapes poll: political moral suasion
I recently tore into Chris Trotter’s argument that polls are deployed to promote a “spiral of silence”, to demoralise those holding non-majority views, and to deter them from political speech and...
View ArticleWhat should I think about Dunne?
The thing that has struck me about the current Dunne based fuss is the number of times I end up saying “I just don’t know what I should think …” 1) Should Dunne have released the email content he...
View ArticleCrossing: the flaw
This evening the GCSB Amendment Bill passed its third reading in Parliament, 61-59, despite a desperate last-minute campaign to persuade selected government MPs to cross the floor and vote against the...
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