Open Mike 12/01/2018
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Media
You Cowed?
To bleat and wring hands, or to act? Jeez. It’s a difficult one.
Won’t somebody please think about the RONs?
National has announced a publicity campaign not about climate change or child poverty or our failing health systems or the housing crisis or anything else but about roads.
Open Mike 11/01/2018
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Coco
Ad reviews the Children’s movie Coco and suggests there is something there for people of all ages.
Open Mike 10/01/2018
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Theatre and Oprah
Maybe ‘circus’ would be more apt that ‘theatre’ with regards the Oprah spectacle.
Hatchets and Knives.
A little on the (predictable) fallout from Emily Thornberry’s BBC Radio 4 interview.
The Saviour Machine
Our ingenuity.
Open Mike 09/01/2018
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Open Mike 08/01/2018
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UK Intelligence
From the Opposition Labour Party, a rare instance of common sense and intelligence on display with regards foreign relations.
Open Mike 07/01/2018
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Open Mike 06/01/2018
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Up in Smoke.
US reverses Federal marijuana stance.
Open Mike 05/01/2018
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Duck and cover
Over the past 24 hours Trump has threatened war by comparing button sizes with Kim Jon Un and Steve Bannon has described Trump Campaign’s 2016 meeting with a group of Russians in Trump Tower as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”.
Open Mike 04/01/2018
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Open Mike 03/01/2018
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Israel fights back
In what may be the first of a number of publicity stunts Rabbi Shmulay Boteach has placed a full page advertisement in the Washington Post condemning Lorde and New Zealand for showing solidarity with Palestine.
Open Mike 02/01/2018
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What will 2018 bring for Donald Trump?
The New York Times has broken a astory suggesting that Australian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Downer informed the FBI that the Trump camp knew about the Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton’s emails four months before the 2016 Presidential election.
Hello 2018
Ngā mihi o te tau hou.
Open Mike 01/01/2018
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The Failed Estate: Us and Them
In Australia the Murdoch press has chosen the Christmas down period to try and whip up some anti beneficiary hysteria. Jim Parker from the blog Failed Estate calmly dissects the figures and concludes there is no reason for concern.
The ten most popular Standard posts of 2017
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Open Mike 31/12/2017
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When the jet stream slows…
…let’s ridicule Donald Trump.
The Standard’s most commented on posts of 2017
The ten most commented on posts in the Standard for 2017.
Open Mike 30/12/2017
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The Adventures of CosmoGuy: US Ambassador to New Zealand (and Samoa!)
The alleged ‘thoughts’ of Scott Brown, the highly intelligent and very cool ambassador of the Partisan States of America to NooZiland. In an exposition of typical blinding intelligence, he tries to explain to his beloved Orange Lord what he is doing here (and in Samoa!).
Open Mike 29/12/2017
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Who is the white dude of the year?
Ben Torkington has proposed on twitter that there should be a white dude of the year competition. Who should be the inaugural winner of this esteemed competition and why?
Open Mike 28/12/2017
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Open Mike 27/12/2017
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The right loses its shit after a public servant accidentally tweets from the wrong account
An accidental tweet from a Government account has led the right to claim the existence of all sorts of conspiracies.