Posts by Keir Leslie
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Actually yes people do queue to work on production lines.
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In general, I don't buy the "let's not tax corporations because otherwise they'll go away" strategy, and it hasn't worked out very well for the Irish in the long run.
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Hard News: Movie Disaster, in reply to Russell Brown,
Of course — I’m very much not against that kind of capacity protection subsidy.
As far as Campbell goes, I think there’s a weird elision of the fact that you can be in a contract, project based industry and still be organised! Hollywood manages it significantly better than much of the more traditionally set up American industries. Also woah weird Israel related stuff going on there.
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Hard News: Movie Disaster, in reply to Chaz Harris,
But doesn't this start to become simply an economic development game, where we pick winners? I'm ok subsidising the NZ screen industry as part of a cultural independence strategy, but not really if the idea's just to make money. I'm already pretty wary about a lot of the big screen production subsidies, both from a cultural and an economic standpoint. The more commercial the government funding gets, the more it is open to critique as simply a subsidy to capital, which isn't really something I'm super interested in.
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Lilith __,
Worth saying that even if Banks didn't break the law, he certainly abused the law, and is certainly unfit to be a politician.
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What Banks had to gain, with respect, Lilith, wasn't just money. It was an ability to mislead his fellow citizens about who was funding his political career. It was a direct attack on important principles of our democracy.
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Have to say, I very much doubt AAG HR respond to a mayoral reference with total deference. Apart from anything else, I suspect the mayor's office spits out hundreds of references, mostly generic and carefully worded.
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I dunno I don't think John Slater can dodge this as lightly as "grown up son nothing to with me", when quite clearly it is a lot to do with him, and he really is looking pretty fucking sleazy right now.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Steven Peters,
Tell that to Paul Findlay; of course standing for elected office makes you a politician, especially standing as part of an organised ticket that explicitly aims to take over the Auckland Council.
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Also: Chuang's a player, not a bystander. Of course she's getting scrutiny. It'd be absurd to think that a C & R candidate going public with an affair (absent any accusations of real impropriety) wouldn't face heavy scrutiny for publicising an essentially consensual and private matter.