Political Animal

Shots Fired

Shots Fired

Adrienne Truscott (2013 Edin­burgh Fringe Pan­el prizewin­ner) “I would’ve said [Tony] Abbott, because his tone-deaf­­ness makes it so easy, and after the George Bush years an Amer­ic­an could basic­ally recycle […]

Chuckles the Finance Minister

Chuckles the Finance Minister

Bill Eng­lish Des­pite polit­ics closely resem­bling an epis­ode of The Walk­ing Dead, watch­ing Bill Eng­lish unleash his anti-cha­risma on New Zea­l­and is still com­puls­ive view­ing for his stat­ist­ics, policies and, […]

Cricket World Cup special

Cricket World Cup special

Crick­et and polit­ics have many things in com­mon — the highest form of each is both exhil­ar­at­ing to fans and excru­ci­at­ing to every­one else, and New Zea­l­and bats high­er than […]

Fun from the fringes

Fun from the fringes

Dav­id Seymour’s ‘See-Mo’ Mous­tache For Movem­ber, Sey­mour grew what could only be described as ‘The Epsom Ban­dito’. Like a slightly uncool Mag­num PI, it was per­fect for a man looking […]

The 2014 FishHead Political Awards

The 2014 FishHead Political Awards

Gov­ern­ment MP of the Year John Key ‘King Key’ doesn’t work with a Kiwi accent, but ‘Teflon John’ high­lights how noth­ing stuck pre-elec­­tion. From slid­ing polls to elec­tion dom­in­ance, he rope-a-doped […]

The Other Election

The Other Election

I strongly sug­gest you look up Fiji and its coups in order to under­stand fully the import­ance of this elec­tion. My fam­ily has lived in Fiji since 1996. Dur­ing the […]

Election 2014

Election 2014

Nation­al: 48% Sorry #teamkey, they won’t get 50 per­cent. But only just. This is National’s elec­tion to lose, and John Key doesn’t only hold all the cards — he’s dealing… […]

Behold the dark horses

Behold the dark horses

Nicky Wag­n­er (Nation­al, Christ­ch­urch Cent­ral) Thanks to Maurice Wil­li­am­son, this pre­vi­ously unher­al­ded MP finds her­self Asso­ci­ate Min­is­ter of Con­ser­va­tion and Can­ter­bury Earth­quake Recov­ery, finally get­ting her some trac­tion. Best known […]

Miracle Time

Miracle Time

  Nation­al Every­body in the coun­try gets cash New Zea­l­and itself will be lis­ted on the NZX and all New Zeal­anders will be enrolled auto­mat­ic­ally as share­hold­ers. Added salt in the […]