Pundit commentary archive 

March 15: The anti-whaling ship of fools
Claire Browning says shame on Labour spokesperson Chris Carter and partisan blog The Standard for using anti-whaling diplomacy for short-term political gain.

March 05: National pride: Great country, ok government
Claire Browning says she's found the missing Key to democracy.

February 19: John Key - "National park miner"
John Key expects more mining in Crown land, which includes our national parks. Is this going to be his year for living dangerously?

February 5: Dishonourable discharge for "Don't ask, don't tell"
The US has begun the long process of overturning law that required gay soldiers to lie about their sexual orientation. But overturning the 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy promises to be a nasty, dirty fight

January 29: Willie Apiata, "Jesus Guns" and other secrets
War hero Willie Apiata is back on the frontline. New Zealand troops are armed with so-called "Jesus guns". Our troops are training Afghan soldiers and police in counter-insurgency operations. Now, why shouldn't we know that?

January 22: Outflanked by a Cosmo centrefold
The brain in the White House appears to have been outsmarted by the brawn of a nude centrefold.

December 14: Class warfare returns in the UK
David Cameron has had four strong years. Now Gordon Brown is playing the posh card, and no wonder, it may just give him half a chance.

December 4: The annual Christmas pressie scramble
Eleanor Black asks what to do about the perennial Christmas gift problem? Sorry, no answers provided here-unless you're in the market for a cupcake car.

November 27: Welcome to Planet Palin
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue is a campaign book delightfully free of boring old policy and so is a sure fire dog whistle to her adoring base. It reinforces why she should never be President, but who the heck does the Republican Party have as an alternative candidate vaguely as charismatic as Caribou Barbie?

November 20: Is Obama dithering while Afghanistan burns?
President Obama's sitcky-outy ears are getting a fair bashing for his perceived dithering over what to do next in Afghanistan. But maybe we'll be better off for his serious evaluation of the situation as opposed to what happened with Vietnam ... and then Iraq

November 13: Mr Netanyahu, tear down this wall
Humanity seems to be destined to repeat its mistakes over and over and over again.

November 6: Mums share far too much information
Mummy blogging is so yesterday - now new parents are posting their birth videos online.

October 30: The price of religion
Brian Tamaki convinced 700 men to "pledge allegiance" to him at a Destiny Church conference. Makes the tithing and chastity rings look pretty harmless, doncha think?

October 23: From Power to the people
So far, Simon Power is doing the right thing by the people and their constitution. Rodney Hide? Not so much, says Andrew Geddis.

October 16: At what price peace?
Obama needed the Nobel Peace prize like another hole in the head, because it is effectively a set of virtual handcuffs on a President mired in war and global unrest and don't his opponents know it.

October 9: David Young - How not to sell your nation to tourists
And you thought John Key's bit on Letterman was a sad attempt at scaring up tourists. In Denmark the state tourism organisation filmed a fake YouTube appeal in which a hot Dane woman admitted her fling with a foreign visitor produced a child.

October 2: Eleanor Black - Government girls dish it
Only 49 sleeps till Sarah Palin's book is released in the US, y'all!  A mere four months after announcing she would write a memoir about her incredibly short political career-and presumably her role in sinking John McCain's credibility once and for all-the most famous hockey mom of them all is readying herself for the book tour.

September 25: Andrew Geddis - A town by any other name
To "H" or not to "H", that is the question. Or ... a town by any other name... I happened to be in Brisbane, safely ensconced in air-conditioned comfort, when the NZ Geographic Board/Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa issued its decision that the official name for the town-formerly-known-as-Wanganui should be Whanganui. Yet I swear I could hear Michael Laws' pop his top even from that distance.

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