Christmas has always been the doorway to next year. Just one week separates Christmas from starting anew. And 2020 has been pretty universally shit.
It all started with insane wildfires in Au...
2020-12-24 02:11:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Just as a break from politics, I thought I'd give you some television and film recommendations so you can watch these over the Christmas break when your family is too annoying to deal with:
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2020-12-20 20:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been wild. 2020 eh? Strange times.
I saw Finlay MacDonald tweet asking that columnists list what they got wrong this year. I thought that's a good idea. So, I've been reading back over w...
2020-12-20 00:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a weird period politically.
Labour has a majority but has spent the first period of its political honeymoon ruling things out. National has been navel-gazing but is yet to find itse...
2020-12-06 05:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This Wednesday the Government is going to declare a climate emergency.
Good.
But if all its doing is declaring an emergency with nothing accompanying it then what's the point?
... 2020-11-29 02:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostA few weeks back, more than 50 charities wrote an open letter to the government pleading with it to increase benefits ahead of Christmas. You see there were tens of thousands newly jobless, food ba...
2020-11-22 00:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I must concede that this Cabinet is a good start.
I had caught word that Kelvin Davis definitely did not want to be Deputy PM and that it was being worked out how to get Grant Robertson into ...
2020-11-08 02:05:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The deal the Greens were offered by Labour was pretty shit.
It was always going to be pretty shit. Remember that Labour does not need the Greens for anything. This term.
But they ...
2020-11-01 00:49:15 +0000 UTC View PostI've needed some space from thinking about politics and the election. I had so many media spots and interviews and columns that I didn't get much time for me, and my family. So, I'm sorry if you mi...
2020-10-25 01:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It will come as no surprise to most of you that I think you should party vote Green.
I would never tell anyone how to vote, but I wanted to lay out my thinking.
Obviously, I'm left-wing, and ...
So patreon isn't working terribly well, meaning that you haven't been able to listen to the podcasts.
If you go here: 2020-10-05 00:52:32 +0000 UTC
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This is the third and final episode in this mini-series. In it I talk to Grant Robertson from Labour.
I wanted to know why Labour has been so centrist, does Grant actually want a second Mt Vi...
2020-10-04 20:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Again as Patrons, you get first dibs on these episodes.
This episode is with the Greens' James Shaw.
James also has reckons on who is the best Mayor of Wellington, we canvass the Green ...
2020-10-04 20:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I have recorded a podcast Mini-series called Dave Tells Us about Wellington Central.
In it, I have interviewed the three major candidates for Wellington Central at the upcoming election...
2020-10-04 00:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Already this year we've seen Grant Robertson reveal his enormous package, several times in fact. Today we got a hole.
We all remember Stephen Joyce's hole of the 2017 election. It was an alleged...
Hi Patreon friends. I just wanted to let you know that I'm back writing a mini-column for the Herald in the lead-up to the election. I'll be out on Thursday.
Sadly the column will be behind t...
2020-09-15 06:34:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone agrees, 2020 is a shitter. It's been madness, Australian wildfire, murder hornets, pandemic, United States wildfire, I'm sure something exciting happened on Shortland Street, feeling the B...
2020-09-13 01:48:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been holding off writing on the Green School debacle, largely because I wanted to see how it played out.
When it first broke, an advisor for a political party messaged me wi...
Remember that North & South cover? That was in the lead up to the 2017 election. Oh how we laughed. Who were they trying to reach with that photo shoot?
I guess they were at least trying ...
2020-08-23 03:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a moral objection to charity. I think that it's a bandage over a seeping wound. We should be aiming to fix systemic stuff as a society, not letting small groups do desperate fund raisers so ...
2020-08-19 21:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I get it. I really do. National would desperately want the election delayed for a number of reasons. All of which are self-serving.
That's not what they'll tell us.
... 2020-08-16 02:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In the last 24 hours we saw the launch of the Labour Party's campaign, the National Party release its list, and the Green Party announce another in its big policy pushes.
Putting aside the Na...
2020-08-09 02:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Not the banal 80s soft rock band, but man, is the opposition in a terrible position.
Last night's poll wasn't the insanity of TV3's 60 pointer for Labour, but this poll was still horrific for th...
Before Tova O'Brien had even finished discussing last night's poll result, National had a press release out saying this was a rogue poll: one of those outlier polls that happen occasionally but are...
2020-07-26 21:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been pretty gross.
Monday we got yet another resignation from the National Party which wasn't a surprise, they've been bailing like Henry the Eight's 7th and 8th...
2020-07-26 02:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the coming weeks I plan on writing a column setting out how I would design an election campaign for each party (that is currently in Parliament).
This week is Labour.
Curre...
2020-07-19 01:48:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Jesus Christ.
What an utter shitshow these last couple of weeks have been.
To see where we are now it's worth looking back about 18 months. That was the first time a key group of ...
2020-07-18 01:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This morning National's Deputy Leader Nikki Kaye fronted up to Jack Tame on Q&A to talk about National's week of lies.
For a detailed timeline, I wrote about it all for the Sunday Star Ti...
2020-07-12 01:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
