Bill Kaye-Blake • Feb 26, 2013 •
The Dominion Post leads off with a story about a Fairfax Media-Ipsos poll: And the snapshot makes for grim reading: More than half (54.1 per cent) say New Zealand was a better place to live in 2003 than now. Almost 12 per cent were undecided or could not say. The article then throws some numbers around, [...] … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Jan 27, 2013 •
Blogging is often just mouthing off in public. Informed, well constructed mouthing off, to be sure. Which means that the accuracy is about that of all forms of mouthing off — hit or miss. So it is with pleasure that I report that the Government finally agrees with me. Two years ago, I explained that [...] … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Oct 02, 2012 •
Two television advertisements have caught my attention. One ad by itself would just be an anecdote. Two ads, well, you can draw a line through two ads, and then you start to wonder whether to extrapolate or not. In one for Countdown, we see the Coleman family at a crossroads. We’ve been watching them happily [...] … Read More