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5:30 pm, July 30th, 2026 - 21 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Good on the communists for having a go at Winston! Solemnly!
Churchill would have had something ascerbic to say about his namesake. Their claim about Winston being certain also rings true. Doggedly so. He could woof any minute. One could argue that he already has:
Well, that's a legal matter and he was a lawyer. Just 1 legal opinion though. The justice market will readily supply a plethora of variants. You have to demand them, since any market works on the basis of supply & demand.
I suggest it may be prudent Labour has cup of tea and a good think on this…..
Green Party losing in Auckland Central and National ahead of rivals in new poll – NZ Herald
Actually a good poll for Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens. Electorate polls this far out from an election are little more than party vote choices, transferred to the candidates. Most people are not engaged at all on their options (I'm a politics junkie unlike 95% of voters and I couldn't have named the National candidate before.)
National won't win it and (or because) Labour won't really try to.
it's a single poll, hardly a trend pointing to CS losing the seat.
And the poll asked which party they would vote for in the candidate seat, not which candidate/party.
If you look at the polling methodology they were not allowed to name the candidate but were only asked who they would give their candidate vote to. So complete rubbish.
Chloe will walk it.
She makes a damn good point: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/green-mp-tamatha-paul-calls-english-a-bastard-language-during-parliamentary-debate/B4JRSQRL4BCAXP4SNXLTD3OD64/
Perhaps mongrel would have been better though (bastards are an oppressed minority).
Multiplicity would strike the trad kiwi male as something invented by communists but here I feel solidarity with this woman for the first time. Trump would point out that he got there first with his concept of alternative reality but who cares? Main thing is that now we will use 3 official languages: a triad! Officialese will evolve thereby…
Mission accomplished – you’ve been suckered in like a good sheeple.
DF Are you implying that in time when we approach officials to discuss matters they will give us the finger?
No, can't generalise like that. Behaviour tends to be context-driven, so officials do have some operational discretion and many seem to use it.
I see the 3-strand rope principle applying to officialese in future: users will adapt to applying any particular option of the 3 as they see fit. That was what my reference `evolve' was intended to signal. Evolution is an adaptive process.
In the Deep Green view, evolution is part of the whole. Ecology prioritises operating context for any organism. Contingency drives survival choices. So we acquire a sense of matrix that conditions our expectations. Ecosystemic relations both inform and motivate us thereby. Resonant interactions drive us forward each moment.
Wow, Tamatha Paul is an excellent speaker.
haven't figured out how to permalink to the video, but this should work tonight. Starts around -27min
https://videos.parliament.nz/
edit: better link https://youtu.be/4ljFKZMR_no?t=9464
This it?
https://videos.parliament.nz/on-demand?id=caa8c5c6-7402-4981-13e3-08deecc9b8e6&members=53958f14-2b54-4d1c-bfac-7b3ea85e1c2b
Don't know. But it was from today. Parliament on Demand has the last vid as 29th. They don't make it easy
Okay, sorry that it didn’t work for others – it sort of works for me except that I have to put “Paul” in the Member’s field on the RH side. IDK why the link doesn’t do the whole job though!?
I played around with it a bit, but couldn't get it to work even when starting from scratch. It's an odd website.
better link upthread
Link wouldnt open for me , but i assume its her bastard language rant.
I think she looked like a complete grandstanding racist idiot, they should have all just rubber stamped English being an official language, and moved on .
My language is old beyond memory,
yeah, bit about bastard language was stupid and inflammatory and completely unnecessary. Pākehā have enough trouble remembering who we are without that bullshit.
But the rest of her korero was great, and she is a very good orator.
Some political thinking about us and our military spending etc. Good points from Jeremy Rose. (I thought of how we can find money to waste on posturing for dominance but we can't have ferries to link our islands and prevent more weakening and fragmentation.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2607/S00079/the-price-of-international-citizenship.htm
The Price Of International Citizenship …………… Tuesday, 28 July 2026, 7:26 pm
Opinion: Jeremy Rose – Wellington-based journalist.
Chinese and ME suppliers are moving in on the Australasian tobacco market – 40% Oz, 25% here.
Christopher Bishop (his non political background was in corporate affairs for an international tobacco company) and associates on The Taxpayers Union are concerned.
The Minister in the adjacent portfolio is ex TU.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361052709/first-time-cutting-tobacco-tax-would-save-lives
Weka shane jones is a great orator to.
Btw I drove through korinti, atene, huruharama today, words that can't be more than 200 years ago , illegitimate children of other languages all of them