I do not think in all my years of interest in politics that I have ever seen a more disorganised week from National. Last Sunday it started with a horror poll suggesting that Labour could conceivably not require support parties and National plunging to levels…
Trump has announced he will ban Tik-Tok from the United States. It's Chinese-owned so there. Or maybe he will force it to be sold to Americans. Don't think security is the issue; kids used it to stuff up his Tulsa rally. And it is good…
Three years ago I wrote a post "Ok, I’m pissed off with the Labour caucus again. Time to switch". While I am still totally surprised at just how successful Jacinda Ardern has been at pulling both the country and the Labour caucus together, I am…
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Environment Minister Eugenie Sage this week announced the beginning of the end of Aotearoa’s unfortunate experiment with free-market waste management that has trashed our environment. The introduction of the Regulated Product Stewardship Scheme is the beginning of the end of Aotearoa of local councils and…
With the growing assertions by the Chinese government across the eastern Pacific including in Hong Kong and our own repudiation of an extradition treaty, there are now calls to expand the Five Eyes intelligence network to include Japan. There's been discussion about this since at…
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