Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has responded brilliantly to a clueless right wing troll's attempt to belittle her by posting a video of her dancing with mates when she was a student. The socialist politician has posted a short video in the hall outside her office, showing…
Yesterday David Farrar blogged about how Greens minister Julie Anne Genter said that she could do nothing about the road toll for many decades. The article accused her of being impotent as a Minister but it mysteriously misquoted her by leaving out the word "substantial".…
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Stuff has, with a few other media outlets, come out with a new set of political predictions for the forthcoming year. It has also given itself a mark of 90 out of 200 for last year's predictions. This is apparently its worst mark yet. Maybe…
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As some of you may have noticed, I've started testing some embeds in comments in OpenMike today. This is a test to see what is possible in posts that can worthwhile be carried over to the comments. Previously the only thing that has been allowed…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYb-wkehT1g If you've ever holidayed with lots of relatives and an elderly mother, you'll really enjoy The Favourite. In such a house, bitterness and joy are mixed every day with half-baked plans, offhand remarks, half-resolved feuds, subtexts about who's helping, poorly repressed judgements, and the…
So it is 2019. We may have a decade left to get on top of the climate change crisis our world is facing. Imagine the year is 2050. The polar ice caps are gone. The centre of the earth is pretty well uninhabitable. There are…
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So, thanks to the fact that we have a fixed term for local elections, we have 284 days until the next election. That's right, it's local election time on the 12th of October. I've been reading some interesting ideas on reporting on elections and rather…
lprent: I have grabbed a comment from veutoviper which was related to a comment by Pete George where PG said (amongst other things): A stupid comment from you. I’ve commented quote a bit over the years about media treatment of different politicians, but that’s a diversion from…
Elizabeth Warren has entered the race to be the next US President. This morning the Massachusetts Senator released a video announcing the formation of an 'exploratory committee' to canvass on her behalf. It's a bit of an odd watch to Kiwi eyes, a four minute…
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