It looks to me like we're about to see a second wave of infections in the US digging deeper into the smaller cities and regions. I'm expecting to see the same kind of thing to happen in other countries. But for the moment a focus…
We are going to see towns die from this economic disaster we are in. For three decades tourism has been the great tidal surge that has made many otherwise spiralling towns stablise, and in some cases expand. Since international travel on any scale will not…
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Generic party leader Todd Muller has sent out a coded call for help this afternoon in an otherwise underwhelming speech at a pakeha enclave in Te Puna, north of Tauranga. What was supposed to be a major speech strongly putting the case for a…
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It is interesting watching National disintegrate. It used to be the party of discipline. From the time that John Key took over in 2006 National has been this borg like structure. It was totally united, always on message, and when Key drifted into left wing…
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...is the US sharemarket roaring away - up 44% - while economic recovery prospects are grim?" ANZ's Sharon Zollner's answer on Tuesday was the Fed printing money, but worried markets were turning a blind eye to the bad news. The bad news hit today as…
This may mean that Chris Penk is thinking about a tilt at National's leadership. He has been thinking. And writing. And publishing his thoughts on the Government's response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Thoughts like these: But he then destroys the thesis of his book…
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Just over six months ago National released its Law and Order policy discussion document. This was meant to kick start a discussion on laura norda that was one of the policies that would would propel National to victory this year. Of the paper National said…
Prime Minister Ardern was “angry” on RNZ yesterday morning, when asked about her reaction to The Warehouse signalling 1,000 redundancies despite receiving tens of millions in wage subsidy to keep their workers employed. Prime Minister Ardern should be angry, and so should we. Angry at…
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The Black Lives Matter movement has been on steroids since the murder of George Floyd in the United States. Over there previously unimaginable things have been occurring. The Mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, in as big a middle finger to Donald Trump as you…
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1270173366549245952 Green Party press release Greens welcome police ruling out of Armed Response Teams Posted by Marama Davidson and Golriz Ghahraman June 09, 2020 2:44 PM The Green Party is welcoming the police’s decision to rule out any extended use of the Armed Response Teams…
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Skripal's relatives don't believe it, Jacinda Ardern doesn't believe it, Paul Buchanan doesn't believe it, and I never believed it. But a story planted in the UK Sunday Times that the Skripals are here lets our media rerun the assassination attempt that failed, even though…
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Guest post from Annie Newman, E tū assistant National Secretary. COVID 19 has caused us to question many things that we have taken for granted for years. One of these is the value of our public institutions that enable citizens to have a say. The…
In Bristol there used to be a statute of a slave trader, Edward Coulson. He spent some of the profits from slave trading on beautifying Bristol and as he was at the time thought to be a great guy the city of Bristol erected a…
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Thanks to clear and decisive leadership, an intelligent government, the decision to go hard and fast, respect for science, and overwhelming commitment by local kiwis we can celebrate a milestone, Aotearoa has no current cases of Covid 19. Now we are at a maintenance stage. …
One of the more annoying twitterers is Hamish Price. His tweets are regularly spun so far his eyes must be watering when he hits the tweet button. And they are so lame. If Hamish is National's foremost twitterer amongst its supporters it has problems. Over…
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The new leadership of the National Party has had an epiphany that led to the rolling of the previous leadership because they were severely out of touch with the public mood during lockdown. The abysmal polls were like a nose swap swab that screamed ‘positive’…