For some years now, parties of the left in government have done the work of the right. Such is the way of a world gripped by Liberalism. But now, with Liberalism's ascendancy on the wane, the fallout for parties of the left that did the…
Remember when news broke about how there was sewerage seeping into the walls of one of our largest hospitals? Radio New Zealand reported the news in these rather graphic terms on March 28, 2018: Raw sewage has been leaking into the walls of Middlemore Hospital's…
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Rhys Darby has discovered the real conspiracy facing New Zealand by judicious use of the Internet. And Clarke Gayford does not feature. The real conspiracy is not a bunch of right wing twitter trolls trying to persuade us that Clarke had been prosecuted even though…
You may have seen the – should we call it news? - floating around about a prospective Nobel Peace prize for Donald Trump. If you missed it, there's some stuff here. And here. And here too. And there's this. And this. My initial reaction was…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
This post is about two ATAPs. ATAP stands for Auckland Transport Alignment Project and is an attempt to reconcile and align Auckland's and the Government's transport aspirations. The first ATAP report was issued in 2016. The results represented a tension between a relatively left wing…
In a really unusual move the police have emphatically dealt to rumours that have been circulating about Clarke Gayford. From David Fisher at the Herald: Jacinda Ardern's partner Clarke Gayford has been under an unprecedented assault of baseless rumour and false innuendo with the apparent…
The review into Australia's banking system really matters to New Zealand. The Australian Royal Commission into Banking has held actual inquiries with evidence from actual citizens and customers, and is issuing reports about the performance of each bank. I'll leave you to research the other…
In an earlier post I wrote about my expulsion and later re-joining of the New Zealand Labour Party. I’ve also written about ideology and some of the limitations this can cause. I have experience of this, as in the years following me leaving Labour, I became active in…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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