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Oops - sorted the Right Hon thing - funny old wor...

2010-03-05T12:22:09.212+13:00

Oops - sorted the Right Hon thing - funny old world - in another life I used to know this stuff - started off my working life as a teenager working as a clerical officer in Dover House in London and spent half my day trundling up and down Whitehall to Parliament.

Hi Paul - just wanted to point out that Jonathan C...

2010-03-05T11:28:56.031+13:00

Hi Paul - just wanted to point out that Jonathan Coleman is "Hon" not "Rt Hot". Rt is reserved for people who have been appointed to the privy council. PM's and the like (oh and winston of course) :)

Nice parsing of the fine print, Mr Reynolds. Watch...

2010-03-05T05:45:15.437+13:00

Nice parsing of the fine print, Mr Reynolds. Watch out for the mercury...

If I understand right, the story is that there'...

2010-03-04T21:18:58.830+13:00

If I understand right, the story is that there's no more money go around. So if RNZ is currently not sustainable because they're doing too much with too little money, then RNZ is going to have to start being sustainable with the same amount of money. This will probably mean doing less, or at best finding cheaper ways to do what they currently do.

In the best of all possible worlds, the choice of what to cut or how to spend less would be left up to them. I'm bothered by newspaper accounts that make it seem as though the Minister and the Select Committee were trying to steer the board into specific areas of cuts or savings.

This should be a discussion about increasing RNZ b...

2010-03-04T18:59:04.566+13:00

This should be a discussion about increasing RNZ budget, not decreasing it. I don't think that it is a coincidence that National are threatening one of the last critical bastions of public broadcasting at the same time National are ramming through large amounts of controversial legislation through under a misuse of urgency.

Thanks Paul; a very cogent and timely post, and th...

2010-03-04T16:19:39.141+13:00

Thanks Paul; a very cogent and timely post, and the link is much appreciated.