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Open mike 05/01/2020
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How To Get There 05/01/20
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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He wasn’t here to help us, was he
Scummo is what Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, was called yesterday by residents of a town that had just been devastated by fire including the loss of two lives. Gutless was my own addition seeing him utterly fail to engage with the people in…
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Open mike 04/01/2020
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Known Knowns and All the Other Ones
I must be the odd one out, the outsider, because a lot of stuff that others get passionate or worked up about flies right over my head. There is not enough time in my day to try following everything that happens let alone think about…
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That 1914 Feeling
President Trump personally ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's elite military Quds force. He was killed by rockets fired from US drones over Baghdad Airport. This is unlawful by any standards, as well as an act of war. Iran has promised…
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OPCW Scandal.
No airborne chemical attack in Douma: that was the conclusion reached by Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspectors on the ground in Syria. And that's the conclusion they passed on to their superiors within the supposedly independent UN organisation. But the OPCW…
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New book reveals Le Carré’s bleak view of post-Brexit world
John le Carré’s 26th book, Agent Running in the Field, which, according to the publishers, is David Cornwell’s (le Carré’s real name) take on Brexit, suggests a dystopian future for European liberal democracies in a post-Brexit world. Sadly likely to be one of his last, given…
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Open mike 03/01/2020
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Open mike 02/01/2020
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Goodbye 2019
2019 was the worst year for the left since 1979. By then, NZ Labour had lost, Aussie Labor had been removed, and UK Labour trounced. In 2019, once-mighty forces of reform and redistribution were set back from ranked power contenders to journeymen on the punching…
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How To Get There: New Years Day edition
I've been thinking about the 2020s as the decade of deep, life affirming change. Tempting to think of it as the do or die decade, but am mindful of Micky's post yesterday, The Power of Positive Campaigning. He looked at the importance of framing party…
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Open mike 01/01/2020
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