Archive for June 17th, 2007

Phil Amos

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I won’t claim to have known Phil Amos well but I do want to remember him. He was the one senior figure in the Labour Party who followed Anderton into the NewLabour Party in 1989. He had been a cabinet minister (Education) in the third Labour govt (1972-5) and shared Anderton’s horror at the new […]

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Is this the most important news story of the day?

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

TV3 led their 6pm news bulletin tonight with the news that Paul Holmes adopted daughter has been arrested on drug charges. I really have to question why this is the lead item on TV3 news. Surely there are more important stories and anyway why does she have to get her name all over the media […]

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