Posts by Keir Leslie
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Hard News: U: It's about the combos, in reply to Shaun Lott,
I'd imagine the core audience for timeshifted Freeview is in fact people who don't own a PVR or a VCR or use TV on demand, because many people don't live in affluent households with large amounts of disposable income.
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Actually one of the striking things about the NoTW etc scandals was that the tabloids did partake of large chunks of nation state-ness (the government-tabloid complex.)
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Probably worth distinguishing between the (relatively few) big urban councils and the large numbers of rural and provincial councils. The ways that rural councils appear to work is that everyone is elected in the farmer interest, and so there's no need to muck around with partisan identification.
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Functionally we do already have political parties at local body level, most of whom are directly tied to central government parties. The main difference is how open they are: unlike the communists, the right would appear quite happy to conceal their views and aims, whereas the left (broadly) appear to be perfectly happy to so do.
Arguably, Ben McNicoll, the pretense that parties are not involved at a local level makes it far easier for central government to stymie local government, as they can pretend they are acting for “objective” “non-political” reasons. ECan, for instance, would have been much much harder to pull off it was explicitly an attempt to oust a Labour council, say.
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Isn't it a bit dumb of MED to try and get the government a veto function? After all, at that point, it's clearly subject to BORA, but if you just let Sky City handle it, that's an arguably commercial issue, and not really a BORA thing.
Also opens up hilarious can of worms about what's damaging to NZ etc -- suppose there's a Greens/Mana government, would an arms conference be the kind of thing that might be problematic?
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Hard News: A GCSB Roundup, in reply to BenWilson,
Done for you big boy...
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Are senior advisers mostly from a humanities back ground? I don't actually think that's true, I suspect they trend social science / administration / harder sciences in general.
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But Emma, would you approve of your young sons (or your young daughters - because girls can read as well as boys) reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house?
Is it a book that you would even wish your husband, or, even, your servants to read?
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If the Greens are running anyone, and have any sense, they'll stand Mathers. She's got profile in the seat, will be running there agin in 10 months time, and is a good advocate for Green issues.
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At this point, Mikaere, every member of the Labour Party who's paid their $10 is a potential candidate for Christchurch East.