What a way to wake up in the morning. We lost an hour because of daylight saving and by the looks of things we also lost four years, because John Key's reckons were being broadcast in stereo in both the Herald and in Stuff. It…
Germany is up for Federal election tomorrow and it's pretty important for the stability of the European Union. In a more clear-cut version of the New Zealand system, if your party doesn't get 5% of the vote you just don't get in. Zero seats. It…
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About those numbers. They’re obviously very wrong, aren’t they? We all know that the truth hurts but when it is this uncomfortable and painful we simply decide it stops being the truth. There are words to describe and name this kind of decision making. It…
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claimed yesterday that a very high vaccination rate in New Zealand would represent a “golden ticket” and make level 4 lockdowns redundant. What could that mean that’s positive for New Zealand? So if we peek over the horizon to January 2022,…
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We are reaching an interesting stage in the vaccination program. The country's recent vaccination roll out has been on steroids and we are now in a position where 80% of the target population should be vaccinated within the next month or so. We were slow…
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Crusher Collins, the leader who has taken great delight in giving back double, has been too afraid to be interviewed by Radio New Zealand this morning. She has a regular Wednesday morning slot but refused to turn up today after she was advised about some…
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Us Kiwis have finally solved the age-old mystery that even confused the Babylonians. The answer is not 42, as some suspected, but it is because there’s a KFC on the other side. No pandemic, it seems, can keep Kiwis away from their beloved takeaways; the…
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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Cabinet meets today to decide on the future of the lockdown levels in Aotearoa and more specifically on Tamaki Makaurau. Yesterday I thought it was on a knife edge. Numbers of cases had plateaued and most new infections had been quickly linked to existing cases. …
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