Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: dirty politics

  • QOTD: Gordon Campbell on SkyCity

    At Scoop: For the record, we started out last week with (a) Prime Minister John Key telling the public that a $402 million convention centre would be only an ‘eyesore’…

  • Connecting the dots on satire, Parliament, and dirty politics

    Danyl McLauchlan has a great suggestion for NZ politicians who really want to show their dedication to freedom of speech and the press in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo…

  • The meaning of dirty politics

    One of the strategies of the right in NZ politics has been to take any complaint levelled against them – of corruption, of malpractice, of conspiracy – and reduce it…

  • (Repost) When is a nasty attack not a nasty attack?

    Originally posted at On The Left. John Key was on Breakfast on One this morning talking about the political year past and the challenges facing him in 2015. And it was…

  • The downfall of John Key

    The question of the day is whether John Key mishearing, forgetting, or not wanting to answer questions about Cameron Slater’s bizarre text messages is going to be the nail in…