Michael Joseph Savage would be turning in his grave. And this shows what an important job this Government has and what a crap job the last Government performed. The United Nations recently expressed incredulity at our statistics concerning child poverty, housing, incarceration and violence. The…
A flurry of reports overnight suggest that right wing anti democracy activist Julian Assange is about to lose his asylum in the Equadorean embassy, London. Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno is in the UK capital to speak at a disability event. However it is speculated that…
The polls are great. Top work. But I'm getting worried about the entropy of this government already. Matthew Hooten and Karl Marx agree with me. Governments usually start with a whiz and a bang and gradually subside from there. We forgot to start. Even Prime…
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From the country that threw children down coal mines, up chimneys and into bone crushing machinery, we now have... child spies. Apparently the UK government has "advanced secondary legislation to extend the period that agencies could use child spies from one month to four months before…
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The two Canadian bigots Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux have now been granted 10 day work visas to visit New Zealand. They'll be here in a fortnight. A clearly disappointed Immigration Minister, Iain Lees Galloway, says that the pair's views are out of step with…
Occasionally previously staunch defenders of the free market see the light and turn to the left after they realise that the power of the state is necessary to counter the evil caused by unregulated greed. One of them is Bernard Hickey, one of the most…
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The Australians are upset with Andrew Little and are throwing Donald Trump type tantrums to show their displeasure. What has he done to attract their displeasure? He accused the Australian Government of having a deportation policy with what appears to have a venal, political strain. The…
It is Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday. Happy birthday to him. If he was alive today he would be 100 years old. He showed uncommon strength in being imprisoned for his belief that the black people of South Africa deserved to be treated equally with their…
Glenn Greenwald and Joe Cirinione were both on Democracy Now! a few days ago. Their debate was streets ahead of the usual fayre, and was fairly wide ranging. I fully recommend watching the entire debate or reading the entire transcript. Joe Cirinione more or less…
You would think that while Jacinda Ardern takes time out to properly introduce baby Neve to the world opposition leader Simon Bridges would be striding throughout the country like a colossus and really make a name for himself. But he has been rather invisible. Maybe…
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A perfume bottle containing a toxin that had been used to poison Sergei Skripal has turned up. Now, right from the get-go, UK authorities have pointed the finger at the Russian government. Anyone reading any commentary I've made on the UK's allegations will know I…
Spare a thought for Mike Hosking. He seems to be going through a particularly dark time. If his latest Herald columns are considered. I did something brave, I read his last five columns. After digesting the contents I had some concern for him. Apart from…
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Clearly there is nothing to see here. Russia did not interfere in the late US election. All that fake news was just random posts by unconnected individuals, not evidence of sinister covert action by one of America's enemies to undermine its democratic system. And what…
The free speech coalition's desire to get the High Court to insist on the perfect system of the freedom of expression, where ideas can escape and soar and come into contact with other ideas and then be subject to civilised battle which will ensure that…
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Did UK Labour HQ help Labour lose the UK General Election? Well, according to claims made in a new book by Ed Miliband’s former Head of Communications - Yes they did. At the moment, there’s only a light smattering of reporting in msm. But what’s…
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Sacha Baron Cohen has been at it again and is launching a new series digging deep into the American psyche. Here is a taste of what we can expect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk It includes what appears to be statements by high profile Republicans Trent Lott, Dana Rohrabascher,…
Things that President Trump won’t do as when meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki: Demand that Russia withdraw from Ukraine and renounce its illegal claim to Crimea. President Truman did similar, successfully. Cease backing the murderous Assad regime in Syria and work for a…
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