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What next after the White Island silence?
At 2.11pm on Monday December 16, New Zealanders are being invited to hold a minute's silence to respect those who have died in the White Island/Whakaari explosion. Once that's over, it's time to start turning to what might occur to prevent this kind of disaster…
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Open mike 15/12/2019
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How To Get There 15/12/19
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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Helen Kelly, together
Filmmakers drift through a life awash with half-formed fragments of story, brushing against our skin like driftwood. Most we can never tell, or just never will. If we let ourselves fall in love with all of them the constant awareness of loss would be overwhelming.…
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Is it better to deliver in Government or better to shine?
Let’s frame this in leftie terms: can you get in, do grunty policy moves, and stay popular? With the United Kingdom loss by Labour to the Conservatives to a healthy majority, it’s worth asking whether all the manifesto idealism was worth it. It seriously didn’t…
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Open mike 14/12/2019
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Lefties on The Standard: UK election edition
In 2017, during the NZ election campaign, we ran a small handful of posts as dedicated discussion space for lefties. You can see the introduction and kaupapa here. Today's post is to create some solid left wing (and troll-free) space to talk about the UK…
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Open mike 13/12/2019
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Daily review 12/12/2019
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Free Broadband
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog One of the more surprising policy announcements from UK Labour during this election campaign is their free broadband policy. Described by the BBC as Broadband Communism (maybe someone should point out to the BBC how they are funded) the policy…
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Brexit – sorry its not getting done anytime soon.
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog Get Brexit done. Its all Boris Johnson says. If he is asked about the NHS, the economy, education, climate change what he ate for breakfast last night all you gets is “well, um ah, that’s a well, we a need to…
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The Missing Millions
Not that you'd know it from reading any UK newspaper headline of late, but the polls that pop media has used to undermine UK Labour's election prospects have a couple of glaring glitches. As Zoe Williams reported in yesterday's Guardian, none of the predictions flowing…
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Bouganville and Brexit
The island of Bouganville has just had a vote towards independence from Papua New Guinea. It's not binding on the Papua New Guinea state, but it has of course raised expectation state statehood awaits. Bouganville relies on Papua New Guinea for the bulk of its…
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Thawing after the BRR
Stuff reported a few days ago that the Greens have dumped their policy on the Budget Responsibility Rules (PDF). The most stringent rules include a commitment to reduce net core Crown debt to less than 20 per cent of GDP within five years, and to…
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Open mike 12/12/2019
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Daily review 11/12/2019
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Green Budget win backs public sector leadership on climate change
https://twitter.com/robellcampbin/status/1204555153027686401 Green Party press release. _______________________________________________________________________ The Greens in Government have today won a significant investment to help move the public sector estate onto clean, renewable energy, Green Party Co-leader, James Shaw, said today. As part of the Government’s capital investment package announced today,…
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Pop Media Bullshit – another example.
Two days ago, John Grace of 'The Guardian' wrote about the "sense of hopelessness" he witnessed at a UK Labour Party rally in Bristol..."there was just weariness, a weight of resignation. A commitment to a cause that already felt lost. The crowd had turned up…
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Then they came for public art
Two recent stories caught my attention. Apparently the barbarians in power in the United States and in Australia want to undermine and destroy public art. First in the USA the Trump Administration wishes to destroy the ability of the Federal Government to provide any public…
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Open mike 11/12/2019
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The freedom to lie during an election campaign
The trend is becoming clear. And many of us on the left are trying to understand the the background and the motivation for what is happening. But the right have a new game plan when it comes to campaigning and damn it but it may…
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Daily review 10/12/2019
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The NHS and privatisation
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major in 2016 commented that the NHS would be as safe as a pet hamster in the presence of a hungry python if Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith rose to power following…
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Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Just so we are clear, because there is some odd information coming out of National at the moment ('shitty and deceptive' graphs, an ongoing series). $285 to $400 is an increase of $115, 40% circa 2008 - 2017*. Source David Hood. Now Simon Bridges has…
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Crash ‘n Burn
Boris Johnson and the Tory Party have been keen to run an election campaign around Brexit and the notion of "getting things done" while simultaneously 'saving' the nation from the man pop media has spent years casting as "unfit for office". And to be fair,…
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Open mike 10/12/2019
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Daily review 09/12/2019
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Northern Ireland’s precarious peace
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog On Friday, UK leader of the opposition revealed a leaked Treasury Paper which undermines the Prime Ministers claims that there will be no checks on goods moving between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. My earlier post on each of the party’s Brexit positions pointed…
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ACC are bankrolling the climate crisis
https://twitter.com/_chloeswarbrick/status/1203577009760169984 There's something particularly perverse about ACC funding industry that will cause so many health issues, but I guess it won't be their problem because they only cover accidental injury and so it will be left to Health to pick up the pieces.Rod Oram's article…