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Originally Posted on Nick Kelly's blog My previous post talked about the 2008 financial crisis and the long shadow it casts over politics and society still a decade later. In the UK, the financial crisis was followed by a decade of austerity. These policies included significant cuts…
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In this interview with Stuff journalist Henry Cooke, Gareth Hughes talks about wanting to spend time with his kids while they're still young, and his frustration with the slowness of change in the face of the enormity of the climate and other crises we are…
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I seem to have been saying this about American politics for the past couple of years or so. But what an amazing week it was in American politics. And the question has to be asked, how is it that Donald Trump is still President? All…
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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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It is official, we’ll have to cope with two referendums at the General Election (GE) next year. One will be asking us whether cannabis for recreational use should be legalised and the other whether voluntary euthanasia should be allowed. One argument against having these referendums…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog. During the 2019 UK general election there will be new issues and developments on a daily basis. But there is a major issue this election isn’t new, but remains highly relevant. The 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent policies…
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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 …
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There was a small protest at Parliament yesterday. The participants were from farming backgrounds and were complaining about the Government's apparent intention to destroy farming communities throughout the land. What could they have been referring to? Collette Devlin filed this backgrounder. The article contains this…
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David Seymour's End of Life Bill passed through Parliament last night by 69 votes to 51. We are now facing a referendum at the next election. From Boris Jancic at the Herald; Parliament has passed a bill legalising voluntary euthanasia in a historic vote, and…
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Originally posted at Nick Kelly's Blog The Conservative Party in the last week have had two serious PR blunders. One was Jacob Ress Mogg’s careless and hurtful comments about the victims of the Grenfell tower fire. The second was Prime Minsters Johnson’s comments that flooding…
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So Australia is burning, California has this year had unprecedented fires and the North Pole is melting. Japan has had typhoons that, shock horror, caused the cancellation of two Rugby World cup games. India and Bangladesh have been hit by unprecedented flooding, and Tuvalu and…
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Dunedin City encompasses a very large area and draws a significant portion of its water supply from catchments further inland. The Otago Daily Times is reporting that the Middlemarch tussock fire over the past few days has impacted Dunedin's water supply, possibly for months. About…
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This took a while. With the advent of the Internet it is normally really easy to gather a crowd, at least if you have a good cause. Put up the necessary website, use Facebook to promote it and gain 500 members and voila, you have…
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