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I like to watch TV dramas, but every so often I need to remind myself of the political attitudes I'm absorbing with the pleasure of immersion in a fictional story. I need to do this for all my favourite TV shows over the last year; ones…
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Most of the years in review I've seen in the couple of weeks have concentrated on gossip and rating individual MPs. Most of what matters not a jot outside the beltway. What matters is how the parties are doing in terms of progressing or thwarting…
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The New Year Honours have been announced. (Sir) Bob Harvey has his faults, but he was the best option, and so I voted for him as mayor of Waitakere. I look back on those days, of a democratic and community minded city council as the…
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There's been a couple of stories in the news over the last 24 hours that could do with some scrutiny. The both relate to NZ's involvement in the global market-place, and raise questions about benefits to NZ and it's citizens. The treasury has warned that…
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Been doing my usual look through the stats on the site (and testing the database link), so I thought I'd share them. The last week of 2012 isn't quite correct because we haven't finished yet, and we started the site in week 32 of 2007.…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Some of us have been asking what David Shearer actually stands for, as was seen in some of the comments below Mike Smith's Amidst th' encircling gloom post. For many of us a substantial new political direction is needed to tackle many urgent problems. Democratic…
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Khandallaviper asked today in Open Mike “What is characterising and feeding the ongoing divide?” commenting on my statement that our aim in setting up the Standard was not to “join Farrar in making the prospect of a Labour government the principal target for attack.” A…
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This morning I saw a report on Al Jazeera News on TV, about the rise of shared consumption in Europe. The main focus was an a rent-a-present service operating in France. Children are seen opening Christmas presents that have been rented for a a few months. At…
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Tim Grosner , in the aftermath of the latest Doha round of climate talks said the following about global warming and emissions: “This is a long-term problem and we have a long-term strategic approach to deal with it.” Which is nice. So sit back and…
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I'm about to start doing some substantial site changes. So don't get worried if the site disappears for a few minutes at a time. Most of these changes are targeted at increasing the privacy of both the site and of the people who use it.…
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Best leader of the year? Hmm, Russel Norman's done a very good job but is very much in his Honeymoon period - he's yet to be seriously tested. Winston, on the other hand, has come back from the dead in a way that few thought…
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Or should that be Marxmas...? It's been a bloody good year here at the Standard and we'd like to thank our readers and commenters and wish you all a very enjoyable Christmas day.
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I don't know what universe the panel is in, that judged the "zip it" one as quote of the year. The political one that has been repeated most and spawned a load of images and comments, is surely "Planet Key"? Metiria Turei turned the government's…
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I was going to do a retrospective, but changed my mind - the message of Christmas is one of hope. Some indicators of better times in 2013 came in the Herald, today and earlier in the week: long-time leftie Matt McCarten (disguised as editorial on…
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Getting away this summer? Or having a 'staycation' and selling your leave to make ends meet? Are you "jealous" that Key's off to Maui for 3 weeks, again? Or are you just a bit pissed off to learn that our Minister of Tourism has so…
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Throughout 2012, John Key and neoliberal individualism remained dominant. The panel on the last Citizen A panel, agreed that John Key's is successfully continuing his gig as "celebrity PM" and is de-politicising the Prime Minister role. This diverts attention from the important issues. However, the…
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John Key will no doubt be spending a lot of his summer in Hawaii, dancing, clowning, and hoping to get an invite somewhere from Obama. However, it looks like he will need to spend some time thinking about reshuffling his cabinet. Nat cheerleader Tracy Watkins is not…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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... then maybe more attention would be given to the increasing numbers of people struggling to get the necessities of life. And then maybe people would be pressuring for solutions other than the short term band-aid of charitable giving. I'm glad charities are doing some very caring…
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