Your F**king Guide To Government Formation
Wondering why you don’t have a new government yet? Let me fill you the f**k in.
Lyndon Hood
From the Hood : Election Lists
Bringing Order to the Election Result
From the Hood : The Campaign Strategist’s Lament
A National Party Spin Doctor Writes
From the Hood : Policy Captcha
Do Politicians Dream of Electric Sheep?
Notes on National’s Election Campaign, in Poem Form
Because English is nothing is not Shakespearean
Social Welfare, Explained
A farewell to welfare faring well.
The Social Investment Model, Explained
As Chairman-at-large of the National Committee for Ideas that Sounded Good at the Time, I get asked a lot about this social investment strategy lark.
From the Hood: In Which My Computer Develops A Bug
Some free verse poetry a cockroach typed into my computer over the weekend.
That’s The Way You Do It
As the President continues trying to throw the immigrant-and-refugee baby out with the bathwater, there is increasing attention on the man behind the curtain.
Donald Trump: “For The Most Beautiful”
The Triumph of Trump.
Transcript: Donald Trump Takes The Presidential Oath
I repeat the best after you, everyone says so.
From The Hood: An Unexpected Bill
Consoling the Finance Minister over an English Bitter
From the Hood : Work and Grimmcome
Emergency housing is not so snow white.
From The Hood: Caught With Your Panamas Down
Panama’s in Pajamas
From The Hood: Home, And A Way
Auckland struggles to cope with its over-supply of advice on housing affordability…
From The Hood : Illegal in an Illegal Land
Reading the fine print, except it’s not actually fine at all.
From The Hood : We Called Him Tortoise, Because He Deports Us
Australia and Other Nonsense
From the Hood : Where Engels Fears To Tread
History, In A Grain Of Salt
From The Hood : Trench Lawfare
Shouldn’t forging a nation from blood and sacrifice be against the law?
From the Hood: Not flag-waving; flag-drowning
Running a few ideas up the flagpole to see if anyone repeatedly chops them down
From The Hood : The Politician’s Song
A General description of a Major problem
From The Hood : Voting By The Good Book
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth double.
From The Hood : Unofficial Cabinet Manuals
And so it was written, and so shall it ever be…
From The Hood : Ars Tonga, Vita Brevis
What I did on my holidays
From The Hood – Plot, Mega-Plot
Who really did in Peter Dunne?
From The Hood : Factual Correctness Gone Mad
In which we hear about the journalistic standard of accuracy and think it sounds like a fantastic idea.
From The Hood : Ich Bin Ein Wiener
The French have A Word For It
From The Hood : Texts From My PM
Lyndon Hood wonders why these people haven’t run out of credit
From The Hood : Qui, Jean, Ou Est La Growth?
If Planet Key did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
From The Hood: WINZ of Omission
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on a subsistence wage provided by the State.