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Is Politik a propaganda mouthpiece for the UK Embassy?
In Politik's 7 September issue we are told that Western diplomats in Wellington are surprised that Winston Peters has not accused Russia of the Skripal poisoning or joined some other countries in taking reprisals. Editor Richard Harman quotes a source to tell us that the…
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A Tale of Two Protests
At about a quarter to one this afternoon, I swung around the corner at the Exchange and noticed quite a reasonable number of people 'across the way'. By their obvious signage, they were protesting the use of 1080. I’d guess there was something like 30…
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US Mid Terms; Obama Enters the Ring
Barack Obama has given a blistering speech at the University of Illinois, setting the scene for his intervention in the November mid term elections. The former President has remained remarkably restrained in his comments about the Trump administration until now, so it's safe to assume…
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We need to push back on Leighton Smith
So yesterday politics in Aotearoa New Zealand spun around the resignation of a Minister who clearly was not coping and worked itself into a lather over a discrete number of words used by the Prime Minister in answering, truthfully, a direct question and clearly wanting…
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Open Mike 08/09/2018
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The right work themselves into a frenzy about Ardern and Curran
The latest right wing beat up is that Jacinda told a porkie this morning to Chris Lynch on Newstalk ZB. In the interests of balance, as well as reality and fact checking here is the transcript. JA is Ardern and CL is Lynch. JA -…
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Curran resigns as a Minister
https://twitter.com/NZMorningReport/status/1037853889255505920 And from the Herald: The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has accepted Clare Curran's resignation as a minister. "Clare Curran contacted me last night to confirm her wish to resign as a Minister and I accepted that resignation," said Jacinda Ardern. "Clare has come to…
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The Trump New York Times Op ed
An amazing event occurred in US politics yesterday, a White House insider wrote and had published in the New York Times an op ed about what is happening in the White House. The preface to the article states that the identity of the writer is…
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Open Mike 07/09/2018
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Daily Review 06/09/2018
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Public Service Reform
Apart from the 170 working parties, Wellington is awash with a large rocking boatload of corporate governors of entities from the Walking Authority to the Remuneration Authority to the Electricity Authority to New Zealand On Air. Far be it for me to say whether the…
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Kremlin Killers?
UK Police have identified the two Russian spies they claim attempted to murder Sergei Skripal and poisoned several others. Police say the two men used Russian passports under the names of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov and arrived in the UK on an Aeroflot flight…
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Open Mike 06/09/2018
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Daily Review 05/09/2018
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Politicians should be allowed to have families
Over the years I have employed a number of mothers in my lawfirm. They inevitably have one requirement, flexibility so they can manage child care arrangements. Flexible working hours, an understanding that on occasions a child's illness is going to take priority and that during…
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And the antisemites are…?
As expected, the full adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemistism has done nothing whatsoever to dampen criticism of Jeremy Corbyn and the more social democratic faction or camp within UK Labour. Apparently, even though the IRHA's definition is meant to be…
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“Creating quagmires” – US policy in Syria
In June this year I went to a lecture at LSE by Gilles Keppel. professor at the Ecole Superieure in Paris, titled "The Middle East after Isis - what comes next." He didn't get near the answer till the question session at the end, one…
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Open Mike 05/09/2018
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Daily Review 04/09/2018
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Winston and the refugee issue
Winston has caused something of a splash by suggesting that Labour's proposal to double the number of refugees accepted each year may not proceed. This raises interesting issues concerning the coalition agreement and what New Zealand First is bound to cooperate with. The agreement says…
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Government as startup
This new government is almost perfectly replicating the burn cycle of a startup business. Like a tech startup, the popular notion is that it has two stages: a great idea and a spectacular payoff. In reality, this government is behaving like a tech startup because…
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Open Mike 04/09/2018
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Zionism and Anti-Semitism Both Suck
In two days time, the UK Labour Party is likely to lose the next general election. The party is grappling with a self inflicted dilemma; adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-semitism or stick with it's own version which is looser on criticism…
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Daily Review 03/09/2018
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Libspill set to Toy Story
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Enough Bullshit!
I was made aware that Guyon Espiner had interviewed Arno Nel about an Auckland protest he'd helped to organise about South African land seizures and the supposed widespread murder of white farmers. So I gave it a listen. In short, Espiner gave Arno Nel a…
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Bridges establishes working group to prepare discussion document
Simon Bridges in his usual Morning Report interview this morning said this: We are starting our policy process proper today and this is the first one. We will do other areas as well about one every month or so. The process we are going to…
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Farrar peddles climate change denial nonsense
You would think that the blog site most closely associated with National would be a little more circumspect. Maybe DPF just wants to show that he is a champion of free speech. Whatever happened he has peddled more nonsense from a climate change denier. He…
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Open Mike 03/09/2018
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