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Open mike 26/05/2019
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How To Get There 26/5/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. 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 like to think it’s…
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Mayhem in the UK
So Theresa May is on the way out. The Guardian has the details: Theresa May has given an emotional farewell to “the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold”, pledging to step aside as Conservative leader on 7 June and kicking…
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EU elections
We will get the results of the European parliament elections in the next day or so. It’s the first election they’ve had since the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. There’s a reasonably high chance that the far…
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Open mike 25/05/2019
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Daily review 24/05/2019
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Religion and the threshold
It has been quite amusing watching a new generation of journalists waffling on about possible religious parties maybe entering parliament as offside stooges for National. Don't these dimwits ever look at history? Religious party - please meet the threshold... It is 5%, or if National…
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Labour to relax fiscal responsibility rules
Huzzah. Grant Robertson has announced that the Government will relax the fiscal responsibility rules, although not until after next election. Thomas Coughlan at Newsroom has provided this perceptive comment on what has happened: The Government will scrap specific debt targets in favour of moving towards…
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Open mike 24/05/2019
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Daily review 23/05/2019
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Run Brian Run
I hope this post does not dissuade him. But I doubt that Brian Tamaki reads the Standard. And I hope he gets together a party and runs for Parliament next year. Because the MMP system allows extremist groups to gather together small groups of people…
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Open mike 23/05/2019
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Daily review 22/05/2019
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Parliament’s culture
The release of the report into Parliament's culture was pretty dramatic. The basic conclusion is that the halls of Parliament is full of awful people who treat their staff and workers very poorly. I was not surprised. Politics has this unfortunate habit of attracting some…
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Open mike 22/05/2019
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Daily review 21/05/2019
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Death tax fake news
As everyone gets their head around what happened in Australia news is coming out about the role that social media played. And it was not a positive role. This tweet caught my interest: https://twitter.com/vanbadham/status/1130381691384606720 The responses are concerning. The spread of misinformation appears to have…
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Billionaire pledges to pay off class of 2019’s student loans
This was a graduation ceremony with a difference. Watch the video showing the end of his speech to see why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FO4oWrKJ4 MSN has the details: Billionaire investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith was giving the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, when…
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Open mike 21/05/2019
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Daily review 20/05/2019
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Will the Christian Conservatives rise again?
National will be licking its lips and thinking that the Australian election will provide them with a roadmap to how to succeed in 2020. There are a few takeaways. They need to make sure that a right wing megalomaniac controls the majority of the media…
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Open mike 20/05/2019
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