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Open Mike 18/11/25
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Daily review 17/11/2025
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76% of Kiwis rate National Coalition poor to neutral
Days after Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion1 ($1,000,000,000,000) pay package for Elon Musk, government satisfaction continues to fall in many Western countries, such as the US, UK, France, Spain, Netherlands and Croatia. Satisfaction with democracy in nine surveyed countries fell below 50% in eight…
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Who’s winning the Climate Change Revolution?
The world’s largest economies are lowering or flatlining emissions at the same time as they are growing their economies. Let’s start with China. In 1980 China was less than 5% of the world’s GDP and now accounts for 20% of it and rising. After the…
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Open Mike 17/11/25
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The Fast Track law is being made worse
Just over a year ago the Government passed a constitutional abomination of a law and is now trying to make it worse and do this quickly. What is going on? The change is according to the Government about improving supermarket competition. When it was introduced…
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Open Mike 16/11/25
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Why Is National Allowing Trans Tasman Resources to Destroy our Common Good?
This government is deliberately enabling private seabed mining in Taranaki to prevent New Zealand’s largest future renewable electricity supply. For the past 10 years, Trans-Tasman Resources (owned by Manuka Resources from Australia) has been trying and failing to get approval to mine the seabed in…
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Open Mike 15/11/25
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Daily review 14/11/2025
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Ireland’s new President causes Western backlash
US neo-cons, defence-linked thinktanks and media attack Ireland's neutrality policy and position on Israel. Reproduced with permission from Mick Hall in Context Substack New president of Ireland Catherine Connolly at her inauguration on November 11. (Photo: Government of Ireland) First published by Consortium News As…
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Open Mike 14/11/25
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Daily review 13/11/2025
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Our Accelerating Public Sector Decline
New Zealanders are losing confidence in the institutions that once held us together. Can this be changed? A last-minute press conference with Police Minister Mark Mitchell and public service minister Judith Collins held last Tuesday evening pulled journalists out of the parliament bar and into…
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Open Mike 13/11/25
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Daily review 12/11/2025
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The tawdry silly argument in favour of selling assets
Over the past few months Winston Peters has gone up in my estimation regularly. Yesterday he did this by criticising Christopher Luxon's plans to have asset sales on the menu after the next election. Luxon kicked things off on Monday by stating that he wanted…
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Open Mike 12/11/25
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Daily review 11/11/2025
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The cult of reasonableness
Labour’s capital gains tax isn’t the end of the debate — it’s the beginning of a reckoning. The left’s real problem isn’t its policy. It’s the cult of reasonableness that’s made conviction sound impolite.Labour’s capital gains tax isn’t enough. Not even close. But it matters. After…
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Open Mike 11/11/25
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Daily review 10/11/2025
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Open Mike 10/11/25
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Open Mike 09/11/25
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Wrecking the country’s climate change response
If you thought that your contempt for the current administration had peaked let me disappoint you. There is an especially shitty policy change they have recently announced which is conclusive proof that they are fuckwits, idiots, have no comprehension of science or sense and should…
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Open Mike 08/11/25
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Daily review 07/11/2025
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Some Number 8 Fencing Wire in Gaza
There was a short segment on the 6pm TVNZ news programme (6 November), in which a BBC journalist, heavily overseen by the IDF, showed the level of destruction wrought in Gaza. It reminded me of “before and after” pictures of French villages in the First…
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Let them eat Michelin Stars
The Government's class prejudices are now on clear display. In the same week as news emerged that the Government is considering a ban on rough sleepers in major urban town centres further news emerged that it is subsidising Michelin to award Michelin stars to local…
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Open Mike 07/11/25
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