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Daily review 19/11/2021
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The pandemic response is like driving a car
We live in interesting times and there is so much to think and write about. I’ve been mulling the mandate hot potato and some of its more predictable (as in likely) consequences but I’ll leave that for now because I’m getting all steamed up when…
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Is This The New State We Want?
The New Zealand state is gaining power again, but is it what we want? Some, just a few, may still remember a grey old time when central government was simple and huge. It provided you with electricity and gas, insurance, postal and banking services, local-focused…
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National is being utterly irresponsible
Yesterday's behaviour from the National Party reinforced why I should use every spare minute I have to make sure that Labour and the Greens should continue to form the Government. Because in the middle of a pandemic where the numbers in hospital are increasing and…
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Open mike 19/11/2021
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Daily review 18/11/2021
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Auckland could become a ghost town this summer
Many Aucklanders are poised to leave the city when the borders open (and the bubble bursts?) on 15 December. This is understandable after having been cooped up for months and no chance of taking selfies on the beach outside of Auckland and the conviction that…
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Open mike 18/11/2021
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Daily review 17/11/2021
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The Mandate To Say Goodbye
Amana Christian School Principal Roslyn King, unvaccinated, as of yesterday cannot enter the grounds of her school. The school has lost two of their four staff and the Principal claims it is one of the darkest days in New Zealand education. There are many such…
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Down the rabbit hole
Former National MP Matt King who Judith Collins thinks is a lovely guy, is in the news again. From Radio New Zealand: The National Party is distancing itself from a former MP who has questioned the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine in a lengthy video…
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Open mike 17/11/2021
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Daily review 16/11/2021
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Open mike 16/11/2021
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Daily review 15/11/2021
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How Covid may play out
So Aotearoa New Zealand finds itself in a situation where pretty well every other nation in the world has found itself repeatedly. We have now had four Covid waves. The first three were dealt with fairly quickly. This Delta wave is proving to be much…
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Open mike 15/11/2021
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COP26 Results
The deal is done. Together with lots of side-agreements, big-up pledges, finance, and no definite language on Section 6. Not a disaster, not a spectacular success, somewhere on the not too bad side for the effort involved. The landmark inclusion of language to phase out “unabated…
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Open mike 14/11/2021
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The 2022 We Are Heading Towards
Most of us have been diminished by COVID in 2020-21 so it’s time for everyone to prepare 2022 as an honest accounting of damage to our whole society. It’s not a global war, it’s not a Global Financial Crisis, it’s this unnameable thing. We will…
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Open mike 13/11/2021
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Daily review 12/11/2021
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Covid and the latest polls
The results of two polls were leaked yesterday. David Farrar's Curia poll had Labour on 39.3%, down 5.5%. National were on 26.2%, up 3.7% which historically would have been considered disastrous but not too bad for recent results. Act were on 15.9%, down 0.7% and…
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Open mike 12/11/2021
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Daily review 11/11/2021
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Shock horror, Ardern chooses to keeps her mask on
The Deranged Ardren Syndrome vibe is strong today. But not from a UN Agenda 21 George Soros is funding a World Government takeover and Bill Gates is putting chips in your vaccine anti vaxxer, it is from a senior reporter with the Herald. Dear Reader,…
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What is gender?
University of Sussex philosophy professor Kathleen Stock talks in this 2020 video with two trans women, Dr Sian Lacey Taylder and Emma. At one point she is asked "what is gender?" and gives a four minute overview of the word 'gender' in the context of…
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Open mike 11/11/2021
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Daily review 10/11/2021
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The Freedumb Protesters give protesting a bad name
Advantage has written this very principled post on how as a matter of protection of an important principle the freedom protesters yesterday should be respected. I agree as a principle that the right to protest is important. But my view is that the tolerance shown…
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