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Martin Doyle cartoon Slater Funeral Orations
Friday, 31 January 2014, 12:17 pm | Martin Doyle
Cameron Slater's comments re the recently deceased Judd Hall (26 yo car passenger) take Schadenfreude to a new depth. But given a certain viciousness that's part of Kiwi culture, there might even be a business opportunity in it. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Flag of the Rock Star Economy
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 1:21 pm | Martin Doyle
Oh, how 'gay' and creative John-boy Key has become in Election year. Still, it makes one wonder what would be an appropriate flag for the Rock Star Economy..... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon IQ Test on child poverty
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:28 pm | Martin Doyle
As the political parties continue to dream wild dreams about education and child poverty, you have to wonder if any of them actually know what they're talking about. With 109,000 parents now on the DPB it's time someone found the answer. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Hub
Monday, 27 January 2014, 4:29 pm | Martin Doyle
New Zealand schools are more and more looking and sounding like circuses as politicians (none of whom seem to have been teachers) tinker with a system they don't understand. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Death camps in Syria
Monday, 27 January 2014, 12:37 pm | Martin Doyle
The starvation and torturing and executing of 11,000 detainees in Syria is the sort of discovery that would have shocked the 20th-century world to its core. Today it seems to be just a quickly-forgotten bit of news filler on TV. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Question from a gifted teacher
Friday, 24 January 2014, 10:55 am | Martin Doyle
For six years, New Zealand's international standing in education has slid backwards. With an election looming at the end of the year, it's a bit rich of John Key to suddenly make a juicy contribution to the nation's classrooms. More >>
Martin Doyle: Cartoon Coalescing around Key
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 5:31 pm | Martin Doyle
It's good to see John Key signalling his likely coalition plans so early. To re-crew the ship, he's offering life jackets to the drowning. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Member of the Commas Party
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 1:35 pm | Martin Doyle
Considering that the New Zealand Parliament and New Zealand legislation use Oxford English (and Oxford Commas) it's bizarre that our Attorney-General Chris Finlayson is undermining their use. If the departments for which he has responsibility cease ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Rock star economy
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 1:15 pm | Martin Doyle
A "rock star economy" sounds exciting, but... some disgusting rock groups are marked by alcohol and drug abuse,violence, gross inequalities between band members, and deprived children hidden somewhere offstage. Mmmn, maybe it IS an appropriate ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon Australian fry-up
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 1:02 pm | Martin Doyle
Parts of Australia are right now hot enough to fry an egg on a shovel (or a car bonnet, depending on your culinary skills). More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Putin
Monday, 20 January 2014, 6:36 pm | Martin Doyle
Vladmir Putin's advice to gay athletes ["But leave the children alone"] is nothing less than an abusive insult. If he is concerned for Russia's children, he needs to start reforming the despicable orphanage system. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: A good question for Syria
Thursday, 16 January 2014, 5:28 pm | Martin Doyle
With over 100,000 Syrians killed and half the population displaced, one can only hope that good sense will prevail at the upcoming peace negotiations. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Party Party with Kim
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 2:23 pm | Martin Doyle
Kim Dotcom's humour and style might seem frivolous at times, but when push comes to shove he is no light-weight. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Smacking up the ratings
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 10:31 am | Martin Doyle
Despite the 2009 referendum on smacking showing that 87 per cent of signatories did NOT think smacking should be a criminal offence, the law was changed anyway to make it criminal. Colin Craig's pro-smacking comments may be sad for our society, but ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Doing time in the air
Monday, 13 January 2014, 4:48 pm | Martin Doyle
Considering the intense checking of passengers (grandmothers, even) at airports nowadays, it seems bizarre that prisoners assessed as needing 'Maximum Security" are so casually introduced into the cabin space of New Zealand flights. More >>
Talking basketball in Pyongyang
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 3:30 pm | Martin Doyle
The purported friendship between the free-wheeling Dennis Rodman and the constipated sadist Kim Jong-un remains one of the bizarrest details of these early years of the 21st century. More >>
Martin Doyle Cartoon: MV Poacher
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 9:30 am | Martin Doyle
The Japanese slaughter of whales is so against the spirit of current law that a better name for their ships would be MITSURYOUSHA MARU [MV Poacher]. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Amnesty for the innocent
Monday, 23 December 2013, 3:09 pm | Martin Doyle
It is heart-warming to see Russia give amnesty to the Arctic 30 [two of whom are Kiwis], Pussy Riot, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. But the mere fact the amnesty extends to 25,000 others held in jails and prison camps leads to the chilling question: should ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Quacking about corpses
Friday, 20 December 2013, 5:21 pm | Martin Doyle
Dick Quax and Cameron Brewer have adopted an arch Puritanical rhetoric attacking Mayor Len Brown in Auckland. But now it's emerging that the lynch mob itself might not be 'without sin'. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: If you have a question for the Mayor
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 9:52 am | Martin Doyle
There seems to be a Salem Witch Trial planned for Auckland. Even today, no one does it like Puritans. More >>
