Easter Blog Roundup

Cactus Kate finds my analysis of the MP’s Register of Interest to be rather tabloid. Of course it is – unlike Kate I don’t orgasm at the thought of establishing a trust to avoid tax. Kate however devotes many pages to examining the various trusts MPs have. She also notes no less than 20 Labour MPs have trusts set up – presumably to minimise their tax obligations. Higher taxes are only for everyone else!

Kate also helpfully offers to help the IRD and SFO audit the MPs.

Razork blogs about a childcare centre which has banned lego because:

The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive. As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned. So we banned the Legos and began their program of re-education. “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.

After protests the lego was returned but only with rules such as all structures are public structures, and lego people can be saved only by a “team” of kids, not by individuals.

Perhaps Sue Bradford will focus on the capitalist oppression of lego after she finishes trying to ban smacking.

Keith Ng blogs from Sri Lanka. Not from the safe areas (which are very nice) but from Batticaloa in the East which is in the middle of the civil war between the Tamil Tigers and the Government. The post is well illustrated with photos of refugees and is a highly recommended read.