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Daily review 30/04/2019
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Five people versus a billionaire
UK Labour has released a stunning advertisement on what happens if you give ordinary people more resources compared to if you give a billionaire a tax cut. https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1122893805621895168
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The ides of April
Parliament resumes today and National will hold its first caucus meeting in a while. And I suspect it will be a humdinger. Because the undermining of Bridges by leaking is continuing. From Tova O'Brien at Stuff: Simon Bridges' political future seems uncertain, after murmurs from…
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Open mike 30/04/2019
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Daily review 29/04/2019
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Slushiegate
National thinks that it is onto a winner. It has found an example of egregious waste of public money. Not $26 million on a vanity flag referendum, not $11 million to build a sheep station in the middle of a Saudi desert, fly a whole…
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Open mike 29/04/2019
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The Herald paywall
This week the Herald will provide details of how its recently announced paywall will work. From Toby Manhire at Spinoff: New Zealand media push notifications cannot often be accused of downplaying news, but the Herald’s announcement this afternoon of “one of the biggest New Zealand media moves…
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Open mike 28/04/2019
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How To Get There 28/4/19
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Should white supremacists be preferred over ISIS?
So here is one of those big debates. Normally they happen over decades but suddenly the earth is shifting and we only have months to get the balance right. And we are dealing with a private corporation that appeared out of nowhere but now forms…
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Open mike 27/04/2019
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Daily review 26/04/2019
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Splitters!
The right is desperately looking for a new minor support party. We live in an MMP system. The most popular party does not necessarily win even when it gets really upset and does not understand why it could get more votes than that second most…
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Regulating social media
I found it fascinating that in the wake of the Sri Lankan attacks, their government had the ability to simply shut Facebook and Twitter down, on security grounds. So at least in those countries with a developed and centralized i.t. infrastructure, full regulation is possible.…
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Open mike 26/04/2019
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Open mike 25/04/2019
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Daily review 24/04/2019
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Letter From the United Kingdom
' In a spectacular display of her now blatant hypocrisy, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has accused Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn of - get this - "dragging his heels" in sorting out the Brexit calamity. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Classic. This has been expected for a…
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Sri Lanka
It has taken me a while to comprehend what has happened in Sri Lanka. 321 people killed in churches and hotels because of the coordinated actions of a number of suicide bombers. And news that the Sri Lankan Government was warned a couple of weeks…
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Everything Should Be Made As Uncomfortable As Possible, But No Less Comfortable
The aviation industry are (the) bad guys, right? They charge us an arm and a leg to get us to our well-deserved holiday destinations, cram us into a cabin like sardines in a tin and they are major contributors of global CO2 emissions. To entice…
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Open mike 24/04/2019
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Open mike 23/04/2019
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Kiwi Cultural Cringe is Alive and Well
We are a torn little lot, aren’t we? We take much pride in our sports people and teams. We love our artists doing well on the global stage. Millions of tourists flock to our shores each year and pay good money to see a famous…
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Open mike 22/04/2019
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Confirmation bias
Something slightly deeper. Facebook is an out of control dangerous institution that neatly divides us up into our own tribes and lets us reinforce our beliefs with each other while at the same time throw rocks at the other tribes. It also allows the most…
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Open mike 21/04/2019
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How To Get There 21/4/19
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Open mike 20/04/2019
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Don’t Rock The Titanic!
I reckon cruise ships are so enormous to make people feel that they are not really on a boat out on sea. They are like townships or small villages, with their own man-made and controlled micro-climates, not too dissimilar from the mobile cities in Mortal…