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Open mike 14/01/2020
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Why UK Labour lost? Part 5: Antisemitism
Posted on 13/01/2020 by Nick Kelly For UK Labour Antisemitism has been a festering sore. This issue could have and should have been dealt with earlier on in a far better way. As I said in my blog post about this during the election Jeremy Corbyn is not antisemitic.…
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Why UK Labour lost? Part 4: Ooooh Jeremy Corbyn
When a party loses an election, the leader has to take responsibility. Many cite Jeremy Corbyn's lack of popularity as a key reason for Labour's loss. These calls have been made particularly by his opponents on the right of the UK Labour Party. Few expected…
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Daily review 13/01/2020
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Open mike 13/01/2020
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Why UK Labour lost? Part 3: Its Brexit innit
Many commentators say that the election result for Labour was about more than Brexit. It was, but Brexit was by far one of the major reasons for the result. 43 of the 47 constituencies Labour lost in the 2019 election were leave constituencies. To argue…
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Why UK Labour lost? Part 2: UK Labour’s Strange loyalty to First Past the Post.
I've made the point a number of times before, during and immediately after the election on this blog about the First Past the Post electoral system. I'll make it again, the results in parliament DO NOT reflect the true vote. Labour won 10,269,076 votes in…
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Why UK Labour lost? Part 1: historical context
Posted on 11/01/2020 by Nick Kelly Before Christmas I posted about the UK Election result and did an analysis of why the Conservatives won. I will now turn to the the UK Labour Party. Given my own history with NZ Labour I’ve followed the UK Labour Party with interest, especially since moving to…
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How fast can we transition off fossil fuels?
David Slack's column on Stuff today looks at the resistance to taking climate action seriously, and the reasons why we should, We have just two choices, they both take us into the unknown, and we have to pick one: give up fossil fuels and move…
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Open mike 12/01/2020
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How To Get There 12/01/20
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Open mike 11/01/2020
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Guest Post – What is wrong with the left?
There’s something, as a dyed-in-the-wool Leftie, that I’ve never fully understood about my ideological opponents. Between them the Centre and the Right have governed New Zealand for almost its entire history, they have ample amplification via the media, they’re well funded by people who like…
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Royal Move
It’s great to hear Prince Harry and Meghan quitting as senior royals and going off on their own. They are planning to become financially independent, and hope to “carve out a progressive new role within the institution.” Willingly removing themselves from public taxpayer subsidy is…
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Open mike 10/01/2020
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A message for conservatives about climate change and nuclear power
David Farrar recently posted this post on climate change and the use of nuclear power. The title of the post was "A message for children about climate change" and the post itself is as condescending to young people as the header. Although he did take…
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Open mike 09/01/2020
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Iran attacks US bases in Iraq
So the orange one's temper tantrum has goaded Iran into replying in kind. There are reports of two US bases being hit by missiles launched from within Iran and as I type this it is being reported that Iran's air force is in the air.…
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Simon Bridges went to China
Simon Bridges' trip to China last year has attracted more attention with recent news that MFAT was not consulted on the trip and of even greater concern that the trip was organised by National MP Jian Yang. When I look through past posts I see…
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Open mike 08/01/2020
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Qasem Soleimani murdered by the United States.
Less than a week into the New Year and #WorldWarThree is trending on Twitter. Thank you very much Donald Trump. Trump having lost an impeachment vote in the US Congress, has resorted to the Bill Clinton playbook of 1998. Back then Clinton launched an air strike of Kosovo to distract…
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Australian fires and the climate crisis everybody wanted to ignore
The start of 2020 has been a truely horrible one for Australia. The fires that are sweeping the country have been wreaking havoc. Currently more than 20 people have lost their lives and hundreds more have lost their homes and possessions. In the state of…
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LBJ Redux
March 31 1968 was a big deal for the United States' global military prestige. President Johnson announced bringing U.S. troops back from Vietnam. Weeks later he announced that he wouldn't stand for re-election. With the United States assassination of the highest Iranian military official and…
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Open mike 07/01/2020
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Get out now
General Soleimani was visiting Iraq at the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister to discuss mediation between the US and Iran. Following his assassination by the US the Iraqi Parliament has voted to ask all foreign troops to leave the country. New Zealand's remaining troops…
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Australia is no longer the lucky country
This is a scene from Bladerunner 2049, a futuristic Science Fiction film. The visual effect that the Director Denis Villeneuve wanted to create was to show that "[t]he climate has gone berserk — the ocean, the rain, the snow is all toxic". The scene looks…
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Open mike 06/01/2020
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Open mike 05/01/2020
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How To Get There 05/01/20
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He wasn’t here to help us, was he
Scummo is what Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, was called yesterday by residents of a town that had just been devastated by fire including the loss of two lives. Gutless was my own addition seeing him utterly fail to engage with the people in…