by Heather Hastie | Nov 10, 2017 | New Zealand, Simon's Cat, Tweets
I don’t know if there are any tweets about it because I haven’t looked, but a story in the Washington Post is causing a bit of a furore here. A USian living in NZ, Ben Mack, wrote a story for them called ‘How the far right is poisoning New...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 17, 2017 | NZ Politics, Tweets
It’s been a couple of days, so I thought it was about time I did a tweets post. I’ve been partly writing a “proper” post, and partly taking time off. Spoiler Alert: the “proper” post is about the Iran Nuclear deal, which I support....
by Heather Hastie | Nov 11, 2016 | US Politics
So this happened: The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes — Josh Levin (@josh_levin) November 9, 2016 Trump agreed the system was unfair four years ago, although I’m not quite sure what his reasoning was. The...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 5, 2016 | NZ Politics
I’ve spent a lot of time lauding New Zealand’s election system on this site. One or two have found that pretty annoying, and I don’t care; I stand by my comments. It’s called MMP, which stands for Mixed Member Proportional. Here’s how it...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 18, 2016 | US Politics
Anyone who follows this blog knows that if I was a US citizen I’d be voting for Hillary Clinton in the November elections. I don’t claim that she’s the perfect candidate, but I do think she’s the best option. She’s wickedly smart, easily...
