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Open Mike 08/03/2026
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The smallest coffins are always the heaviest.
The US-Israeli killing of children must be stopped. Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all within the first week of launching their latest war. This is a pattern, not ‘collateral damage’.…
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Open Mike 07/03/2026
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Labour Gains Ground
Curia and TPU, which I’ve consistently said has reasonable public comparable, political polling data, despite its history, shows: Labour gaining 12 seats National lose 10 seats Greens lose 2 seats NZ First gaining 5 seats ACT lose 1 seat TPM lose 2 seats That makes…
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Dead man walking
It has been a hell of a week for Christopher Luxon. He has clearly been under immense pressure. His response to the US invasion of Iran has been inept. His position, that New Zealand did not support the invasion but would not go into the…
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Open Mike 06/03/2026
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Iran: Compounding Chaos
Trump’s attack on Iran, in cahoots with, or in support of, his regional proxy, Israel, is illegal, but also unconscionable in moral and political terms. It is a resurgence of the post-war experience, in which the development of the rules-based international order was qualified by…
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Open Mike 05/03/2026
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TVNZ Board Chair Andrew Barclay pro-actively reached out to Paul Goldsmith on 1News Gang Story
Last week, in my article: “Hold the Line”, I pointed out a rumour being fanned by NZME’s Barry Soper, spouse of NZME Newstalk ZB host Heather Du Plessis-Allan. Soper claimed that a 1News crime report revealing that gang numbers now surpassed police numbers, with data…
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Open Mike 04/03/2026
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New Zealand needs regime change
A prime minister who does not understand how vulnerable New Zealand’s economy is to a Middle Eastern war as we have now, is a Prime Minister who should be removed from office. In clear advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from July last…
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Open Mike 03/03/2026
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On The Iran War
By Gordon Campbell, crossposted from Pacific.Scoop. Funny...back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his acts of aggression were legal under international law. Instead, we immediately decided the invasion was illegal, and forthrightly condemned Russia’s actions at…
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Open Mike 02/03/2026
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