Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: john key

  • 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’…

  • QOTD: Hide on Sabin

    From Rodney’s latest in the Herald on Sunday: The date of any briefing is explosive. It’s certainly not nitpicking. Sabin chaired the law and order select committee, which oversees the…

  • How does #nzpol do on Facebook?

    Feinstein Doak has a post up with the Top Political Facebook Posts of 2014, and the results are interesting: John Key, unsurprisingly given that his Facebook page has over 180,000 likes,…

  • Hashtags of our time: #JohnKeyLiterature

    Yesterday following John Key’s snide little put-down of Kiwi literary hero Eleanor Catton, the #JohnKeyLiterature hashtag went berserk on NZ Twitter, kicked off by the amazing @RozS_P. I highly recommend…

  • Prince Andrew, John Key and implicitly blaming the victim

    (Content note: rape, victim-blaming, domestic violence) The only appropriate response the Prime Minister of New Zealand could have made to questions about the allegations against Prince Andrew is: “No comment.”…