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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Very unlikely. From the polls taken in the UK a few hours ago, the Conservatives are in for an historic fourth consecutive term in Parliament. Just six months ago the Conservatives were in total disarray, with their Prime Minister regularly humiliated in Europe and in…
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Stuff are reporting that the government has moved to ban another set of single-use plastics like cotton buds and non-compostible fruit stickers. Home composters across the land will be cheered about the latter.The ban follows the Rethinking Plastics in Aotearoa New Zealand report, by Chief…
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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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I didn't closely follow the details of the recent debate about the arming of NZ police (specifically the trials of having permanent armed patrols), because the progressive position seems a no brainer: civil society requires the least amount of force needed by those in position…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog I was a bit late to the party in following the rise of Greta Thunberg. In August 2018 she began her activism by spending school days outside the Swedish parliament holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) “School strike for the…
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https://twitter.com/XRebellionUK/status/1202731462765752320 TL;DR the IPCC was for many years too conservative in its predictions and position around tipping points. current science is suggesting a likelihood of reaching catastrophic tipping points much sooner than expected if we keep doing what we are doing, we can expect tipping…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Scotland matters in the 2019 UK general election. Yet much of the electorate have little understanding of the place, it’s politics or what could happen after the December 12 election. Scotland could well decide the outcome of the 2019 UK…
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New Zealand and the United Kingdom are both cursed with the right wing parties having the same advisors and similar means of campaigning. And it is starting to show. Neale Jones in this series of tweets shows how far national is willing to bend the…
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This is how it's done folks. Engaging, fun, symbolic, high profile, sustained, movement-building activism. All power and much gratitude to Greenpeace and all the other activists involved. https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/1202348226524762113 That is an awesome piece of activism. As Robert Guyton commented, The Greenpeace "OMV" protests have been…
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In about a week from now, Jeremy Corbyn will be beginning the process that will install him as the Prime Minister of the UK government. That will be in spite of the ongoing uniform antagonism unleashed on the UK Labour Party from across the entire…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog One of the cliche’s you hear from those active in politics over the last 30 years is that “you have to win the centre”. What is this centre? Presumably the people who float between the political left and the…
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There has been recent speculation that Queen Elisabeth may be calling it a day and handing over the monarchy to Prince Philip Charles. From the Daily Express: Queen Elizabeth II is supposedly giving serious thought of stepping down and handing over the reign to Prince…