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Open Mike 25/12/2018
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The Taxpayers’ Union* responds to the Clark and Thompson spying fiasco
* not a real union.
Open Mike 23/12/2018
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Daily Review 21/12/2018
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Open Mike 21/12/2018
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Daily Review 20/12/2018
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National’s varied response to the Thompson and Clark report
Simon Bridges and Gerry Brownlee have offered diametrically opposed versions of how to respond to the crisis presented by the report into Thompson and Clark’s activities.
Open mike 20/12/2018
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Daily Review 19/12/2018
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The Eminem decision and National’s electoral return
The Court of Appeal has determined that National should pay Eminem $225,000 for use of his music. This may create rather large legal problems for them.
Open Mike 19/12/18
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Daily Review 18/12/2018
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Unhappy Gilmore loses to well known Union Socialist lawyer
Former National MP and in his imagination potentially the next Prime Minister Aaron Gilmore has reached the headlines for not paying compensation to a former employee of his company as agreed and for describing her lawyer as a well known union socialist.
Daily Review 17/12/2018
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Open Mike 17/12/2018
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Open Mike 16/12/2018
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The SPOTY’s 2018
Here’s your chance to vote in the Standard’s Politician of The Year awards. The SPOTY’s are recognised worldwide as the leading indicator of political success in NZ and have been awarded annually for over two hundred years.
Now it’s your turn to prick the Thorndon Bubble, dear reader. Who’s your Politician of the Year?
Open Mike 15/12/2018
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Daily Review 14/12/2018
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Trump’s smocking gun
This week in America former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted electoral finance violations by using campaign money to pay off two hookers to stop them going public during the last election campaign with news about Trump’s infidelity. And Russian national Maria Butina was convicted of conspiring to infiltrate the NRA.
Open Mike 14/12/2018
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National’s Sroubek fizzle
National are trying to manufacture a conspiracy out of revelations that someone who knows Karel Sroubek and has met Jacinda Ardern sent her a text.
Open Mike 13/12/2018
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Daily Review 12/12/2018
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You’ve got to lively up yourself …
National have responded to the Government’s medicinal cannabis law by suggesting hordes of cancer sufferers will hang around schools smoking joints.
Open Mike 12/12/2018
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Daily Review 11/12/2018
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Open Mike 11/12/2018
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Daily Review 10/12/2018
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On the first day of leakmas …
Overheard at a Press Gallery BBQ …
Open Mike 10/12/2018
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Open Mike 09/12/2018
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Safe from prying 5Eyes
I like my Huawei phone. Apparently the US National Security Agency can’t break its encryption. That’s presumably the “security” issue why Spark is being blocked from using Huawei, and why Meng Wanzhou is held hostage in Canada at the behest of US neocons.
Open Mike 08/12/2018
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Daily Review 07/12/2018
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