“With Helen Clark’s latest gaffe on how fast student loans grow she looks increasingly accident prone,” said Roger Sowry.

“Before the campaign was even under way she was apologising to a surgeon because she accused him of doing something he hadn’t done.

“Next thing she’s promised 3% unemployment by the end of the term of the next Government, and then had to retract it when Michael Cullen heard about it.

“And let us not forget her flip-flops on Party accommodations. When she thought she didn’t need the Greens she was highly moralistic about the arrangements others had made. When the tide turned she quick as a flash gave her Coromandel candidate the shove.

“It just shows she isn’t very good when under pressure to perform," Mr Sowry said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>