Post
Open mike 17/02/2019
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Explore the archive
Archives · 2019-02-11 to 2019-02-17
Find articles and conversations by date, subject or search expression.
Searching: posts Sorted by: newest Results: 1–30 of 31
Post
How To Get There 17/2/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. How To Get There is an Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d…
Post
The NZ National Party is the Wizard of Oz
John Armstrong has once more dished up one of his opinion pieces and once again, he has done us a disservice. His main failing is to conflate the current turmoil in the National Party with that of perceived (!) weak leadership by Simon Bridges and…
Deep stuff journalism leadership making shit up Media national political parties politicans Politics rumour same old national Simon Bridges vision
Post
Walls and Bridges
It's been a funny old week. In the States, Trump has caved to the Democrats and signed the government finance bill that was he never, ever going to sign if he didn't get his wall. He doesn't get his wall. In the UK, Theresa May…
Donald Trump International Jeremy Corbyn Simon Bridges uk politics uncategorized us politics winston peters you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Blomfield beats Slater
The Matthew Blomfield Cameron Slater defamation case has been followed on this blog for some time. Just check out some of the posts the Standard has published to understand what the interest was. The basis was that back in the dark days before Nicky Hager…
articles Dirty Politics Media the praiseworthy and the pitiful The Standard
Post
Open mike 16/02/2019
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Daily review 15/02/2019
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 …
Post
Open mike 15/02/2019
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
The end of tenure review
It is said that the worst day in Government is better than the best week in opposition. That is because you can actually get things done. Things that matter. Like getting rid of the tenure review policy, under which large tracts of rural land has…
Conservation Environment farming greens Politics sustainability
Post
Dead cats and silly sausages
Gosh, what a busy two days. We get one day for political pundits and other commentators to talk about National's disastrous polling, and then suddenly a lot of weird behaviour happens from the Nats, almost like they have been instructed to generate political headlines that…
Post
Daily review 14/02/2019
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 …
Post
$58 billion verses democracy: Bouganville
There’s trouble on the horizon in Bouganville. 18 years ago may seem a bit of time, but there was a massive civil war in this island very close to New Zealand. Bouganville has a semi-autonomous government, which is proposing legislation that will make significant changes…
Post
Open Mike 14/02/2019
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Can Sexism Save Simon’s Bacon?
Embattled 'leader' of the National Party Simon Bridges has sensationally exposed a STUNNING SECRET about Jacinda Ardern in a new online ad. https://twitter.com/i/status/1095450234568622080 Readers of a sensitive nature may wish to sit down, possibly with smelling salts close at hand, because Simon has just…
death with dignity Judith Collins same old national uncategorized you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Daily Review 13/02/2019
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 …
Post
Spark vs Spooks
Spark wants Huawei's 5G technology because its the best and the cheapest. The GCSB spooks don't want us to have it because 5Eyes, and because the US has yanked their chain. The Prime Minister says no decision has been made - the media and the…
China interweb military Spying surveillance tech industry telecommunications trade us politics
Post
National crashes select committee meeting
Today was meant to be the the first meeting of the year of Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. Things started with a hitch. One Labour member was sick and a replacement was found but turned up 30 seconds after the committee was meant to…
Abuse of power act david seymour Dr Deborah Russell internet Judith Collins labour Media national Politics same old national twitter
Post
Dear St Valentine
Deep in the perpetually joyous realm you inhabit, could you pop over and have a chat to St Francis? I am pretty sure that your spirit of spreading love throughout humanity is so necessary that if you did not exist we would have to…
Post
The leader has my full support
https://twitter.com/nealejones/status/1095214116782764032 Neale is right. The only acceptable answer whenever a question relating to leadership is asked is to affirm that the leader has the particular MP's full support. Anything less than this will provoke speculation. And believe me, I have been around, speculation is the…
Gerry Brownlee Media national Politics Simon Bridges you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Open Mike 13/02/2019
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Pollwatch: 11/02/2019
Kia ora koutou readers, and welcome back to the first Pollwatch of 2019, and as our official Worst News™ will tell you, (okay, maybe that's my opinion of their recent coverage rather than an official thing) it's a doozy. Part of the reason I started…
act Amy Adams greens labour maori party national new conservatives Nikki Kaye nz first polls Simon Bridges
Post
Daily review 12/02/2019
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 …
Post
Should We Fear Judith Collins?
The Newshub/Reid Research poll is clearly devastating for National and its current leader, Simon Bridges. It's even worse than the last Colmar Brunton poll, which also had Labour leading the Tories.* The trend is clear; National under Bridges are stuffed. The question facing the Tory…
class war Deep stuff election 2020 Judith Collins leadership Politics polls same old national Simon Bridges you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Climate change – the ongoing disaster
In my youth back in the late 1970s and early 80s, I did a BSc in Earth Sciences. That gave me a sense of geological time where a million years was a relatively short period of time. It also made me realise that the human historical…
Post
Sheepgate the final chapter
One of the weirdest episodes in New Zealand politics is now at an end. The Government has pulled the plug on the Saudi Sheepgate deal. I have followed the story for a while. A more potentially corrupt use of state resources I cannot imagine. When…
david parker national same old national the praiseworthy and the pitiful trade you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Open Mike 12/02/2019
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Latest Reid Research poll result disastrous for National and Bridges
Tova O'Brien described this poll as being "a doozy" and "huge". She was not wrong. From what I can tell this is the first Reid Research poll since May last year. Results are: Labour 47.5% National 41.6% NZ First 2.9% Green 5.1% And the…
greens jacinda ardern Judith Collins labour national nz first Simon Bridges the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Post
Daily review 11/02/2019
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 …
Post
Simon Bridges twitter game
I know there are more important things to discuss and National leader Simon Bridges receives more attention and posts than he probably deserves but dang it is like shooting fish in a barrel. And his twitter game is pretty poor. It makes you wonder who…
alcohol Media national Politics same old national Simon Bridges social media lolz the praiseworthy and the pitiful twitter you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Right wing environmental sock puppet party launched
No friends National's sock puppet party has now been announced. And it involves the usual suspect: https://twitter.com/vernontava/status/1094421499434328065 Don't get me wrong. I think we do need to work for a truly sustainable environment. But I am pretty sure that this particular entity, if it does…
climate change Conservation Environment national Politics same old national sustainability