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From Every, featuring Dan Shipper talking with Craig Mod. This so good. There’s a fair bit of programmer geek spoken in the first half (but not too much) and some real insights about keeping your creativity intact by, basically, quarantining yourself from the distractions of ‘the network’ until you’re ready. Good frames and points of […]
Same old, same old. The duplicitous dirty PR group NZ Taxpayers Union Inc. (or “the ACT party in drag” as one insider labelled them) keeps trying to pull sleazy stunts, in service of its paymasters. An Australian fact-checking organisation has found Jordan Williams’ smelly astroturf operation recently misleadingly distorted the impact of a Green party […]
Looks like this is the month of the retreads. Look at this guy: We’ve see this racist rissole before. How tiresome. ACT party leader David Seymour looks relieved there’s another stand-up comic (hopefully) joining the caucus. It’ll take the “be entertaining” burden off him. My experience, working at the same radio station as Henry in […]
I remember seeing Sam Neill in the movie Sleeping Dogs, not immediately it came out, but actually after I’d read the book the movie was based on, C K Stead’s Smith’s Dream — a dark, gritty, violent book, and all too plausible in the days of Robert Muldoon. Then later, he was the glamorous star […]
Some observers will be upset about this (cough) appointment. And they’ll be upset that Stuff owner Sinead Boucher, suspected of being a right wing establishment stooge with respect to local body politics has come out of the closet and effectively declared her political colours. Oh well. Better out of the shadows than in them, I […]
Delightful piece from Hayden Donnell at The Spinoff (how did I miss it?) — Huge opportunity: Could you be the guy standing behind the PM looking furious? OK, so I thought ‘grim’, right? But Hayden has brought receipts, as the saying goes… and his view is ‘absolutely ropeable’. Lol. “Usually though, Luxon is accompanied by […]
Following on from my earlier post … ‘Hamish Rutherford always looks grim these days‘, well, it seems that enough is enough for Hamish Rutherford (and fair enough too). Stuff reports: [Rutherford’s] message said: “It has been an absolute honour to work for Christopher Luxon both in Opposition and for the year since the election, but […]
The Prime Minister’s spin doctor Hamish Rutherford used to be a lot of fun. We were Twitter buddies back when he was working at The Dominion (later Fairfax); then he went to the NZ Herald as Wellington Business editor, for a wider circulation/better job security (ha!), I guess. There I noticed his tone got more […]
Wow. A mortgage free apartment, but he claims ‘accommodation expenses’ (really a taxpayer-funded allowance) of $1,000 per week – on top of his $471,000 pa salary and other benefits, etc etc. The National Party CEO must be so used to the good life, eh? The Prime Minister will receive a $52,000 top-up to his $471,000 […]