If you missed it late last year, let me remind you. Prime Minister John Key celebrated his five years in office in a very, very odd way. In his ‘one-on-one’ interviews with Press Gallery journalists, he seriously talked up the Conservative Party and its leader, Colin Craig. Key basically invited someone else to the party and […]
Welcome to Election 2014, where everyone has soon forgotten about the perils of the recent global recession and the housing market collapse. 2014 is suddenly awash with cash again – just a few tender years after we were borrowing more than $300 million a week to survive as a country. There’s one simple reason for […]
The political year of 2013 is coming to an end – it’s time to look back. First, the good. My three winners are: David Cunliffe If patience is a virtue, then Cunliffe picks up the prize. Banished from the class two years ago for disloyalty, he hid in the bushes and kept quiet. When the caucus […]
David Cunliffe should have been made Labour’s leader two years ago. We won’t dwell on why he wasn’t. You all know why. The Anyone-But-Cunliffe club was so anti-Cunliffe they chose a man woefully out of his depth in David Shearer and hoped he might be OK. He wasn’t. It was a disaster. And Labour lost two […]
On TV3’s The Vote recently, Auckland thespian Oliver Driver claimed his beloved city was now truly “world class”. He then yelped the evidence: “Beyoncé is coming for a concert! So it must be world class to attract her.” I’ve been thinking about his comments since. It’s true Auckland is New Zealand’s only city of real […]
I tweeted recently suggesting that David Shearer would soon be rolled as Labour’s leader. This may or may not have happened by the time this issue of FishHead goes to print. I said Shearer faced a leadership coup and a letter of no confidence was circulating his MPs. When I did that it created a shit-storm. […]
