Posts on government and governence at national and local level, political parties,politicians, and political participation
We wouldn’t tie a rope to a heavy load and then push on the rope with the expectation of achieving anything, right? So why is the Guardian’s Environment Editor entreating that we do just that? Is he merely stupid? Or is there something more cynical at play?
Stuff have adopted a policy of banning opinion pieces and comments from climate change deniers on the basis that the science is settled and allowing space for deniers is a dangerous waste of time.
The Trump administration has produced an official report outlining the perils of climate change which the POTUS has rejected. And in Australia the dinosaur Liberal Party has suffered a huge loss in Victorian State elections, the loss of their Parliamentary majority and ScoMo has criticised school students taking direct action against the Government’s totally inadequate policies.
National’s social media team have sent out a tweet with a quote from Simon Bridges that does not appear in the speech that he gave.
National have got out the old “no new taxes” songbook and are singing it as loudly as they can.
It’s high time this government woke up to the intelligence gathering capacity and ambition of China in New Zealand.
Simon Bridges is going for the under 10 misogynist vote by claiming that Santa Claus is definitely a man.
A guest post by Joel Walsham on the decision of the Auckland Pride Board to request the police not to march at the Pride parade in uniform.
A number of prominent academics and researchers have signed an open letter to Jacinda Ardern urging her to take the allegations of Chinese involvement in crimes against Professor Anne Marie Brady seriously and to make a clear statement in defence of academic freedom in New Zealand.
I don’t generally have a problem with clowns. But these clowns are dangerous. When mainstream media promotes centrist clowns promoting fascist clowns….
The government has just announced the creation of the most massive and powerful housing and land development agency that we have ever seen.
Judith Collins appears to be ramping up a leadership campaign using Fox News type references to climate change, social change and young people.
Simon Bridges has claimed that Labour’s Kiwisaver fund is $18 billion short of the amount needed to meet the Government’s goals of constructing ten thousand Kiwibuild houses a year. The claim has as much credibility as National’s claim that Labour’s budget figures had an $11.5 billion hole in them.
Actual press release from the Trump White House.
National MP Simon O’Connor is thinking of a tilt at Auckland’s mayoralty.
Auckland Council wishes to conduct a trial of online voting at next year’s local government elections. Is it time to try this out as a voting system?
Simon Bridges has in the last 24 hours blamed Labour law changes for increasing rentals but has forgotten which ones, and has disagreed that an apology is owed to the families of the Pike River miners on the 8th anniversary of the disaster.
Ngai Tahu and Tainui remind us that they like exploiting working people as much as the next capitalist. They’ve locked out their Waikato bus drivers for asking to be paid the Living Wage.
To jump or not to jump? Is “not jumping” about to mean “left behind”?
While looking at a missing post on Briefing Papers, I ran across some material on deficiencies in our current education regime looking at our civil war in the 19th century. So I wrote this post about why I personally think that it matters.
London’s bridges were closing down.
Stacy Kirk has made the outlandish claim that Andrew Little is prepared to risk someone’s life in his desire to have the Pike River mine properly investigated.
In breaking news it appears that the reason for Donald Trump’s grumpiness may have been the impending release of news that Julian Assange has had charges laid against him.
In Yemen right now, children are living in the worst humanitarian crisis we have seen in the last 100 years.
You will be shocked to learn that the National Party has been less than honest about where it is getting its information regarding Karel Sroubek.
Pike River mine is to be re-entered and finally the truth will be told. Victory for the 29 is victory for all of us.
It has been discovered that the person behind the Energy Voices website is a National Party operative and former staffer.
That’s the big question ‘big’ people are asking these days.
It is time for the Government to down the electricity corporates and regulate them in the interests of the citizen.
In Georgia, despite the Repbublican candidate who oversaw the election process engaging in the mass disenfranchisement of Democrat voters, the removal of voting machines to make voting in Democrat areas more difficult and baseless smearing of the Democrat candidate, the result is on a knife edge and a second vote is a possibility.
Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of something that’s real
A recent UMR poll has put National support at 37%, deep in danger territory for Simon Bridges.
Trump’s…I don’t actually have words for this little escapade.
The Sroubek beat up is still with us. Why won’t National tell us what they knew and what they agreed to?
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at the President’s request and has been replaced by someone who thought that Mueller’s investigation into POTUS went too far.
Jami-Lee Ross has passed his proxy vote to NZ First, elevating waka jumping to an Olympic sport. How bad does it have to get before the Tory caucus puts Simon Bridges out of his misery?
