From the Hood : Category Error
A civil poem about the civilness of civility.
Satire
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?
From The Hood : Pure Petroleume
As if royals are in charge of anything these days.