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Public Address 26/11/03 - Games, Cars And Girls
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 3:44 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I expected to have a few run-ins with Englishmen the day after the World Cup Final. However I was surprised when it happened at one of the homes of English culture - the Royal Albert Hall in the snooty Kensington suburb of London... More >>
Public Address 26/11/03 - Games, Cars And Girls
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 12:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I expected to have a few run-ins with Englishmen the day after the World Cup Final. However I was surprised when it happened at one of the homes of English culture - the Royal Albert Hall in the snooty Kensington suburb of London... More >>
Public Address 25/11/03: Waiting For The Clampdown
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 12:15 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I seem to be writing even longer blogs than usual at the moment; but you get that on the big jobs. So anyway, my old correspondent Neil Morrison has taken issue with last week's post suggesting that invading and occupying Iraq was having a somewhat ... More >>
Public Address 24/11/03 - Somewhat Outraged
Monday, 24 November 2003, 1:10 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I am normally allergic to political arguments that hinge on a definition of "class", but as the outrageous detail of exactly what went on in media baron Conrad Black's Hollinger group seeps out, Dick Meyer's angry editorial, The Predator Class, seems ... More >>
Public Address 21/11/03 - Challenges
Friday, 21 November 2003, 12:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There was a palpable air of unreality about the Bush-Blair press conference in London overnight. Even though events were raging as the two men spoke, the talk was such that it might have been scripted any time in the past few months... More >>
Public Address 20/11/03 - Just Thursday
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 1:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Unacceptable uses of technology department: if you have a modern, RDS-enabled car radio, the ZM Network can - and does - force it to retune to ZM whenever the station broadcasts a traffic update. Yes, they have ways of making you listen ... More >>
Public Address 19/11/03 - Disputes And Repairs
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 1:12 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
That's not an earthquake you felt in Henderson. Rather, management at South Pacific Pictures was jumping up and down about yesterday's observation here that TVNZ's relationship problems with independent producers were such that SPP "appeared to be having ... More >>
Public Address 18/11/03 - Situation Normal
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 1:09 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Breaking!I guess something had to give at TVNZ - and it's the not-so-quiet American, Marty Behrens. Behrens has just announced his resignation as head of business development on account of "differences of opinion and approach" with the CEO, Ian Fraser. ... More >>
Public Address 14 & 17/11/03 - Winning And Losing
Monday, 17 November 2003, 1:53 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If a car can be driven glumly, then glumly were piloted the vehicles on Auckland's slick streets around midnight on Saturday night. I found myself imagining the moods of my countrymen as they wandered home from where they'd been: how that happen?... More >>
Public Address 13/11/03 - Hide Your Head
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 11:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Anybody get the feeling that Winston Peters would actually rather not be in a governing coalition? Yesterday he announced New Zealand First's non-negotiable bottom line for coalition - an annual round of binding referenda. To the polls every November, ... More >>
Public Address 12/11/03 - First Drafts, Last Words
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I got an email yesterday that stopped me cold. Public Address uses web-based feedback forms so as to avoid having our individual email addresses harvested by spambots. Yesterday, I got some spam. Via the feedback form... More >>
Public Address 11/11/03 - Numbers
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 11:44 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm delighted to see that Tracey Nelson's ability to analyse rugby in a way that actually means something has earned her a story in The Listener. Her stats from the All Black-Springbok game on Saturday are online now... More >>
Public Address 10/11/03 - Monday Magic
Monday, 10 November 2003, 11:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Not such a great week for the Act Party, then. Indeed, let us count the ways in which things are turning pear-shaped for the party that formed to knock off Roger Douglas's unfinished business and got lost down the blind alley of populism... More >>
Public Address 07/11/03 - Triple Trouble!
Friday, 7 November 2003, 12:18 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Donna Awatere Huata is nothing if not indefatigable. As constitutional experts line up to declare shock and awe at what has been expressed in the traditionally modest language of an Auditor-General's report, the exiled Act MP still insists she has ... More >>
Public Address 06/11/03 - Less Than Free
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 1:31 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Another little defeat for free speech in the US, with the extraordinary cowardice of CBS's dumping of The Reagans in response to conservative pressure. My impression is that while The Reagans might not be very good - it's a made-for-TV movie, for ... More >>
Public Address 05/11/03 - Winning And Losing
Wednesday, 5 November 2003, 11:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The solar storms of last week have nothing on the tempest that erupted in our kitchen this morning, when poor old Busytot dropped the vintage yellow Fiestaware teacup. "No break cup!" he howled, just a split-second too late for the fundamental laws ... More >>
Public Address 04/11/03 - Don And Downes
Wednesday, 5 November 2003, 11:04 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Verlaines (with Ghostplane + Dominic Blaazer) Thurs, Oct 23 The King's Arms A week has already vanished since the Verlaines returned to Auckland last Thursday. Lead singer Graeme Downes might say that with each passing day we're a little closer ... More >>
Public Address 03/11/03 - Scams And Stuff
Monday, 3 November 2003, 12:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Public service message: if you received an email headed 'Westpac Bank E-mail Verification' today, don't act on its contents. It's a phishing scam and its perpetrators want to empty your bank account. As it happens, I am a Westpac customer, but the scam ... More >>
Public Address 31/10/03 -Cultural Observations
Friday, 31 October 2003, 12:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The disorderly business of life |Oct 30, 2003 16:18 GUEST Peter McLennan steps up More >>
Public Address 28/10/03 - A Feast Of Blogs
Monday, 27 October 2003, 10:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of the tests of major political party leadership - and Prime Ministerial potential - is being able to smoothly run one's own ascension, by dint of coup or otherwise. If you can't do that, how can you run the country?... More >>
