Posts by Michael Smythe
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Hard News: Art with a job to do,
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Very well said Russell - market research will always deliver the comfortable and familiar. It is all about followship. Flags should lead from the front!
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical,
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The 'dead cat' has at least contributed to the feeling that we cane do better than this - it's time for a change! Coming immediately after Andrew Little demonstrated Prim Ministerial values, vision and focus in could represent the turning point.
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak,
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Agreed Russell. The bureaucratic boffins will be every annoyed that their Teflon John has lost the plot and taken his eye off the Fern-Foisting ball! Yesterday's great distraction was probably a cunning plan to make us feel warm, cuddly and all-a-flutter about back and white but it seems Kiwis aren't panda-ing to his ploy. Watch out for desperate attempts to align All Blacks success at the RWC with love of the fern!