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 | 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 | Jun 14, 2016 | New Zealand, NZ Politics
New Zealand’s prime minister John Key phoned his golfing buddy President Obama to offer our country’s condolences following the murders in Orlando, which were apparently warmly received. This afternoon, in their first day back since the tragedy,...
