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Daily review 31/05/2021
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Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Political commentator and analyst Bryce Edwards lays down some challenges for the left. Commenting is welcome, and the usual rules apply: focus on the issues raised in the post, refrain from attacks on the author - weka Cross posted from The Democracy Project with permission.…
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Riverton rocks: support the pilot for social and economic rejuvenation and resilience in rural NZ
Today is the final day of the Longwood Loop's Pledgeme (closes 4pm). They're near to achieving their goal and need a bit more support to reach the target. Rivertonian Robert Guyton commented in Open Mike yesterday, Last week, weka published a post on the Longwood…
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Open mike 31/05/2021
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Open mike 30/05/2021
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Cycling Politics is Winnable Politics
Hot on the heels of Cycle Wellington’s tactical urbanism this week in Adelaide Road, Wellington City Council has bowed to public pressure and voted for the largest of four cycling budget options of $240 million over 10 years. This is as big a win as…
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New Zealand’s Perverse Economy
At a forecast farm gate milk price of between NZ$7.25 and NZ$8.75 per kilo of milk solid, Fonterra is going to fill up its milk tankers, drive back to their suppliers with cash and pump it straight back into the farmhouse like we haven’t seen…
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Open mike 29/05/2021
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Daily review 28/05/2021
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Latest Colmar Brunton poll – people disapprove of Judith
The latest Colmar Brunton poll was released last night. Labour is down 3% to 46% which is not bad given they had just given significant increases to benefits in the budget. I suspect the public sector partial wage freeze did the damage. National is up…
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Open mike 28/05/2021
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Daily review 27/05/2021
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Cummings: Boris is unfit for the job
Look what happens when political advisers go rogue. Sometimes they start being truthful. This is what is happening in England where former chief of staff Dominic Cummings is saying, in a very unspun way, what he thinks of Boris Johnson and his role as Prime…
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Open mike 27/05/2021
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Daily review 26/05/2021
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Chris Bishop is tilting at Covid windmills
Right now, in terms of our Covid response, New Zealand is in a unique position. It has no community spread of Covid and its level of restrictions is the most permissive in the world. Some of the other nations are not doing so well. Melbourne…
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Cycling Politics Is Damn Serious Business
This month it’s come to Wellington’s cyclist citizens rebelling one way to get cycleways in and in Onehunga car-unfriendly manoeuvres protested the other way. In Onehunga, the pro-car-access vandals won and the trial was dumped. Cycling in New Zealand is an urban guerrilla war encouraged by…
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Open mike 26/05/2021
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Daily review 25/05/2021
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The right bring out the big guns
This is day five of the post Ruthenasia era and the response from the right is really underwhelming. I am not surprised. There has been an epic change in public opinion about benefits. It seems that Covid has made us realise that we are all…
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Open mike 25/05/2021
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Daily review 24/05/2021
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Open mike 24/05/2021
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A very Samoan coup
In overnight news the Samoan head of state Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II has suspended the recalling of Parliament due to occur on Monday. From Joyetter Feagaimaali'i at the Samoan Observer: Samoa has been thrown into a constitutional crisis after the Head of State suspended Parliament's…
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Open mike 23/05/2021
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The Non-Partisan Populism of Popper’s Paradox
I cannot help but note that the criteria to call yourself anything and identify as anybody nowadays have become more stringent and next to impossible (and beyond ridiculous). The Label Approval Bureau is extremely vigilant in safeguarding dogmatic orthodoxy and the selection process of decorating…
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Taxpayer’s Union comrades celebrate glorious Socialist revolution
It is good to see our comrades in the Taxpayers Union celebrate the glorious Socialist revolution that is currently engulfing Aotearoa. After all they must be part of the glorious socialist revolutionary movement. I say this because they describe themselves as a union and like…
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Where Did Business Go?
Back in the day when we had useful Opposition, business leadership could be relied upon to think as if they had interests in common as business. This budget, their ability to think let alone lead has deserted them. Baldly stated from Michael Barnett the Auckland…
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Open mike 22/05/2021
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Daily review 21/05/2021
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