Quiz: Advice for National on a Judith Collins Leadership Bid, or Quote from My Unpublished Indiana Jones Fan Fic?
Judith Collins is, as they say of aspiring leaders and infected sores everywhere, running.
Lyndon Hood
From the Hood : Category Error
A civil poem about the civilness of civility.
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.
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