Quiz: Advice for National on a Judith Collins Leadership Bid, or Quote from My Unpublished Indiana Jones Fan Fic?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.
Satire
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 : The Campaign Strategist’s Lament
A National Party Spin Doctor Writes
From the Hood : Policy Captcha
Do Politicians Dream of Electric Sheep?
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.
A Small Ode on a Trump Inauguration Poem
I figure if this guy can write an inauguration poem, anyone can.
From The Hood: An Unexpected Bill
Consoling the Finance Minister over an English Bitter
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?
Gordon Campbell on a union victory in the fast food industry
Good to have a reminder of why trade unions are still essential in the 21st century. The scrapping of zero hour contract provisions by the […]
Gordon Campbell on the Charlie Hebdo killings and response
Now that the Kouachi brothers have made their Butch-and-Sundance dash for martyrdom, and now that the millions have marched in Paris and elsewhere to defend […]
Tough, But Tinder
What political secrets might we conceivably find lurking within Tinder dating app profiles?
From The Hood : The Politician’s Song
A General description of a Major problem
From The Hood : Homeopathic Governance
Got a political problem? Add water, and look lively
From The Hood : Voting By The Good Book
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth double.
From The Hood : Carry On Captaining
Its lonely at the top, but the view is grand
From the Hood : Finding A Happy Media
Ask A Prime Minister
From The Hood : Fol-De-Royal
Werewolf wasn’t paying close attention to the royal tour but we thought we’d have a go at the whole coverage thing anyway.
From The Hood : Unofficial Cabinet Manuals
And so it was written, and so shall it ever be…
From The Hood : That Referendum Thing In Plain English
The Financemeister is not a man to let fancy forms of democracy get in the way.
From The Hood : The Masque Of The Blue Line
Am I getting old or are holidays just not as fun any more?