Cops ♥ Chases
The common factor in Police chases is adrenaline fueled driving. And not just by the kid in the stolen car. The Police strategy of chasing stolen cars is a bigger problem than the thefts themselves and it needs to stop. Now.
Media
David Seymour can’t handle criticism
ACT MP David Seymour has lashed out on Facebook at Dianne Khan apparently for successfully fact checking him.
Open Mike 14/01/2019
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Open Mike 13/01/2019
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President Peaches
I’m moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches! Donald Trump has yet another bizarro, almost Freudian, moment as his threat to invoke a national emergency to fund his wall falls flat. Peaches, people! Not impeachment, peaches!!!
Legalize it!
A new poll shows solid support for legalising cannabis. Is the 2020 referendum a done deal?
Open Mike 12/01/2019
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Open Mike 11/01/2019
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Open Mike 10/01/2019
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Open Mike 09/01/2019
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Russell Brand’s New Year’s Revolutions!
Russell Brand has a some advice for people making New Year’s resolutions. It’s funny, sweet and particularly positive.
Open Mike 08/01/2019
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Julian Assange and the Streisand Effect.
Wikileaks has tried to silence media organisations on behalf of Julian Assange. Why is a ‘transparency’ organisation opposed to free speech and have they made things worse for the Aussie hacker?
UPDATE: The list has been leaked. Link in post.
Caption contest
Keep it seemly …
Open Mike 07/01/2019
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National just wants to have some friends
National clearly needs new friends if it is to regain power. Could the nutty New Conservatives be a possibility?
Farrar criticises Genter for not solving National’s transport safety mess quickly enough
David Farrar has accused Julie Anne Genter of saying she can do nothing about the road safety when she said nothing of the sort.
Open Mike 05/01/19
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Political punditry in 2019
The media has recently reviewed its predictions from last year and made a few new ones. How did it go? And what is going to happen in the next 12 months?
Open Mike 04/01/2019
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Test embeds in comments.
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve started testing some embeds in comments in OpenMike today. This is a test to see what is possible in posts that can worthwhile be carried over to the comments. I’ll probably make decisions on what I allow over the weekend and either add what you want or remove the ones that look like they will break the conversation.
Open Mike 03/01/2019
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Movie Review – the Favourite
The Standard is branching into new territory with a film review of the movie the Favourite.
Open Mike 02/01/2019
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Discussion on political leader PR.
A comment from veutoviper has a go at the prevelant myth that Jacinda Arden has been using her family for PR points. As veutoviper points out by looking at the NZ Womens Weekly that Simon Bridges appears to have a much higher profile with his family washing. For some reason our political misogynists appear to have a double standard.
Open Mike 01/01/2019
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The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2018
The Standard’s ten most read posts of 2018.
The Standard’s ten most commented on posts in 2018
The Standard’s ten most commented on posts in 2018.
Open Mike 31/12/2018
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Now on WordPress 5
Just upgraded to Wordpress 5.02. There were a couple of minor tweaks required on our site for old posts, but nothing earth shattering. Proceeding on to changing the theme after 8 years.
Open Mike 29/12/2018
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Matt King goes full nut job
National MP Matt King has claimed that Stuff has been censoring comments that are critical of the Government and that an article expressing concerns about the run down of health infrastructure, the increase in child poverty, the use of private contractors to spy on us and the inability of NZTA to properly regulate WOF inspections is “left wing claptrap”.
The Standard a decade on
LPrent and I had the chance recently to talk about the Standard and how it is going.
Open Mike 28/12/2018
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Open Mike 27/12/2018
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Open Mike 26/12/2018
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