James Caygill

Look, I love polling, considerably more than most people. But if you start crafting an agenda from what polls well, rather than starting with what a better world looks like, one that connects to the general public's needs, and how you get from here to there, then you have no business in politics

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

imagine being the MP for southern māori and thinking the party of eruera tirikatene doesn’t have the right to stand in it. idiot

I guess the list of politicians I haven’t forgiven for the way they behaved after the Christchurch Earthquakes just got an addendum.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Nuclear block now. Also yeah, that sneaky misspelling caught me at first.

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends

JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald

GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

Thank you for finally acknowledging this Ben.

Mute early, mute often.

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DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

1. Hayek's greatest insight was the disciplining power of information.
2. Ned Prescott's greatest insight was that adhering to rules for policymaking solves a serious government problem.
3. Goodhart's Law is that when the measure becomes the target, it is no longer a good measure.

In political science, there has been a long and frustrating debate over what about democracy, precisely, leads to growth. Of course, it’s multi-causal. But I always emphasize the information environment. Markets can’t work when info is bad. Info is likely to be bad in authoritarian circumstances.

Or we’ve both lost them which I wouldn’t rule out.

It’s always been bad. It’s because they continue to want you to watch the replay on SkySport6 whatever the hell that is. They’re still a broadcaster first and foremost. Not a streaming service. Sports streaming in NZ went backwards a long way with the demise of Spark.

You are not the only one

Will definitely vote for considered local body policy which would remove them and survive legal challenge.

For as little as $10 a week, you can support a dairy farmer. Somewhere, a little farmer waits

“I was just following orders” has never been a successful defence when you violate human rights.

If the orders are unlawful, disobey them.

If the orders are going to get people kidnapped, killed, disappeared and harmed, disobey them.

Do the right thing. Don’t aid the fascists.

On one of the coldest weekends of the year. I work 50 meters from there and am regularly there on the weekend as well. I don’t think there’s a foot traffic problem. Granted things can always be better. Nor to take away from the success of George St either.

And sports reporters at that. Politics is sport to them.

okay so i wrote a faux epic rap battle of history between robert falcon scott and roald amundsen because my brain is diseased and now i wanna get two people to record it

Daniel Craig introducting The Weekend on SNL, with the text: E rangatira mā... te mutunga wiki

I’m sure you spell it paladin.

A lot of centrist pundit types seem to buy this birthrate issue as a) a real thing and b) an urgent thing

We are not running out of people *waves hands at earth* we are just not maintaining a white population at levels you personally find comfortable

Stop being weird

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a little kid

Just putting it out there: Free Trade is good.

Strom Thurmond and Elon both taking an L on the same day is a hell of a white supremacy bankshot

On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin! Plunge right through that line!