Posts by Stephen R
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Keir Leslie,
I mean, there was no way Labour was ever going to buy the "let's have a formal pre-election alliance" deal on offer, and so to act as if the rejection is a grand insult is, frankly, precious.
And listening to Russel Norman this morning on National Radio, he didn't appear to me to be being precious. I thought that Guyon was trying to get him to play that card, but it just didn't happen (which seemed to throw Guyon off, perhaps because he didn't have any cue cards for what to do when Russel didn't bite.).
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Listening to the interview by Guyon of Russel in the car on the way to work this morning, I had to turn it off. Guyon seemed desperate to get the narrative out that the Greens and Labour were about to go to war with each other, despite Russel being completely reasonable about Greens and Labour being allowed to disagree on tactics in fighting the election while both wanting to change the government.
It's like Guyon wasn't listening to anything Russel said. I don't need that before the morning coffee...
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to BenWilson,
If 320km/h lines around Europe managed to connect up most of the major centers, they'd definitely rival air travel around the continent.
The train from Paris to London was much preferable to (and faster than) flying from CDG to Heathrow (and then training from Heathrow to central London) - the two hour check in for flying made a critical difference.
Then we made the mistake of buying a cheap flight from London to Edinburgh. After figuring out logistics involved, it turned out to be cheaper (and not actually much slower) to abandon the plane tickets and catch a train, even though the plane tickets were a sunk-cost. 4 hours of train with free wifi went very quickly and delivered us to central Edinburgh rather than Glasgow Prestwick which would have required another train to get to Edinburgh anyway.
Trains from Paris to Barcelona, or Rome to Paris were less successful, but probably because they were slower/older trains.
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Hard News: Gower Speaks, in reply to WH,
I'd have thought there'd be at least some interest in a well-thought out election polling blog.
We could call it FiveThirtyEight.co.nz ...
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Hard News: Jim looks back at the big…, in reply to Sue,
can i cast a vote for 60 second film summaries with jimmy? this was great
+1
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Hard News: Oh, Auckland, in reply to nzlemming,
But Russ' point is that you don't get the same scale and diversity outside south Auckland, and that's because you don;t have the same population density
I'd agree with that. Wellington doesn't even get the same scale and diversity as I remember in Christchurch at the Riccarton raceway on a Sunday morning back in the late 90s.
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Hard News: Oh, Auckland, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
nor are any of the other weekend morning markets round Wellington that I’m aware of.
Isn't there one in Waitangi park on a Sunday morning? or in the carpark under Frank Kitts Park on a Saturday morning? (Not that I've been to either, just vague signs and the traffic and parking issues seem to indicate so)
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re: The Finns and their education system
They didn't always have an excellent education system.
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Seems Judith Collins might not have been entirely straight with that nice Mr Key...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9818950/Judith-Collins-comes-clean-about-dinner
Prime Minister John Key has signalled Justice Minister Judith Collins is on her final warning after she withheld details of a dinner in China with a company linked to her husband.
The dinner was with senior members of Oravida, a company that deals with New Zealand dairy products, and a senior Chinese government official. Collins' husband David Wong Tung is a director of the company.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to James Littlewood*,
And of course, disheartened Labour voters.
David keeps sending me mail, and I feel so mean for being unable to tell him that he's got my vote. I just don't trust Labour not to try to screw me if Russel and Metiria aren't around to keep them honest.