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Open mike 20/10/2019
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How To Get There 20/10/19
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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Open mike 19/10/2019
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Daily review 18/10/2019
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Reality kicks in for US trolls.
It has been an interesting few days looking at political reality kicking in on politics and the net in the UK and the US. The first story I read yesterday was in the US, about one of the lying dimwitted conspiracy nutcases who claimed that…
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Why unions won’t give up on Fair Pay Agreements
Fair Pay Agreements are in the news this week as the CTU calls for progress on this, and some media suggest that there is a developing rift between Labour and Unions. Fair Pay Agreements as Labour Party policy have been fought for by Affiliated Labour…
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Open mike 18/10/2019
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Brexit built on lies – still suffering.
In the UK, Boris Johnson has just had a rather nasty setback in trying to get support for his Brexit package. It looks remarkably like the last one - which failed three times in parliament. It looks like the clone with tweaks will fail again.…
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Daily review 17/10/2019
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Australia gets tough on climate change activists
Much of Australia is like that brash in your face cousin that you cannot stand. Loud, opinionated, as soon as you start to raise an idea or a proposition they shut you down and say you are wrong. Not all of them, like America there…
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Open mike 17/10/2019
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Daily review 16/10/2019
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“Extinction Rebellion blanket ban chilling and unlawful”
On Monday, midway through their fortnight of direct action to force the UK government to act on climate change, Extinction Rebellion focused their day on London's financial district. XR blocked major roads into the area and access to institutions including the Bank of England and…
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Open mike 16/10/2019
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Daily review 15/10/2019
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Burning down the house
Recent social media from National suggests that there is a business confidence problem and that the solution is to incinerate regulations, lots and lots of regulations. Is there a business confidence problem? Sure there is. I am pretty cautious and my confidence for the future…
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Later climate change deniers
The latest election results are notable for the removal of a number of climate change deniers from office, and the election of a number of candidates who stood on explicit climate change platforms. Charlie Mitchell has the overview: https://twitter.com/comingupcharlie/status/1183622092043894785 https://twitter.com/comingupcharlie/status/1183622095705526273 One aspect that was pleasing…
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Caption contest
Photo and commentary: Henry Cooke
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Open mike 15/10/2019
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One News Colmar Brunton Poll Oct 2019
Another day, another poll. And another disappointing, if somewhat disguised, result for Simon Bridges. Frankly, the National leader has had a week to forget, with yesterday's Newshub poll suggesting that the Tories would not only lose to a Labour/Green Government (the right's nightmare scenario) but…
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Daily review 14/10/2019
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Online voting – no. Try polling booths
Amid calls to install online voting from the technologically illiterate who are appear to be unaware of the risks, there is clear disagreement from those who do know the risks. Politicians should listen to them. The current debate centers around the continuing failure of postal…
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Newshub: poll shows Labour/Green could govern alone
Not that it's apparent from Shub's spinny headline and Tova O'Brien's 'Labour are loosers' reckons, (Jacinda Ardern, Labour take massive tumble in new Newshub-Reid Research poll), so I fixed if for ya Newshub. It's just one poll*, a year out from an election, but if…
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Open mike 14/10/2019
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