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Open mike 24/10/2022
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What are National’s constituent tribes?
Russ Jones, who is always a pleasure to read, came up with a really succinct description of the five tribes of the UK Conservative Party. His description of the problem is a joy to read. The problem - and I use the word entirely incorrectly…
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Open mike 23/10/2022
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Open mike 22/10/2022
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Daily review 21/10/2022
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Wind Farms Need Mines
We need more mines if we are to transition to low carbon. There’s a field of industry that National and Labour could readily agree to if they put their minds to it, and it’s one of the highest paid industries in the world: mining. Electric…
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The lettuce won
Over in the UK Liz Truss has bowed to the inevitable and has announced her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party. A new leadership contest has been triggered. Unlike the last contest this one will only last a week and contestants will need at…
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Open mike 21/10/2022
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Daily review 20/10/2022
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Groundswell or Deep Earth?
It occurred to me this morning that the word groundswell was a good fit for those New Zealand's farmers flexing their political muscles at parliament today. Groundswell works against nature, on the farm and in its politics. Groundswell for the most part represents the farmers…
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Wayne Brown’s letters
Wayne Brown (or is that Matthew Hooton) has over the past few days released a series of letters that are astonishing in their audacity. Any complaint that he is not putting in the hard yards getting up to speed with the job of running the…
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Open mike 20/10/2022
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Daily review 19/10/2022
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Stand up and fight
Joanna Macy, elder of the transition movements based in life-affirming models of our future, has a threefold model of this great moment of change we are in: Holding Patterns (think conventional protest movements) Alternative Structures (eg Doughnut economics, community gardens, regenerative agriculture) Shifting Consciousness (eg…
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Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Chameleon
So Gaurav Sharma has announced his immediate resignation from Parliament and that he will contest the by election as leader of a new centrist party that will no doubt sweep the next election and make sure that he is placed at his rightful position of…
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Open mike 19/10/2022
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Daily review 18/10/2022
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The Auckland Mayor’s powers
Yesterday newly elected Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown issued a Mayoral decree that Watercare, a Council controlled organisation, should no longer work on anything to do with the Government's Three Waters reforms. The lawyer in me wondered how he could do this. Afterall Watercare is a…
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Open mike 18/10/2022
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Daily review 17/10/2022
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How Brexit Shanked Britain
The political and economic disasters now unfolding in Britain are the responsibility of the Conservative Party from their 2016 Brexit vote through to now. Let’s start by going deep into how the Conservative Party tilted the entire 2016 voting field. In mid 2013 Prime Minister…
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Open mike 17/10/2022
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What conflict of interest
National continues to shoot itself in the foot. For a while now it has, with the aid of its useful idiots in the media, been on the attack against Nanaia Mahuta. Her whanau perform various services for Government Departments. And, shock horror, they get paid.…
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Sunflower | Oil
Some kids threw soup on a famous painting, and lots of people were pissed off. Some young Just Stop Oil climate activists staged an action to wake people the fuck up. Did they wake up? You choose. https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1580865060347383808 The action is both wrong and right,…
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Open mike 16/10/2022
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Minister Robertson, UK Pensions, and Risk
A simple and rational question in the later part of a political term is: am I better off? There’s a specific set of New Zealanders who won’t feel it: Kiwisavers and home owners with high mortgages. But is that reasonable? We have been used over…
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Even more anarchy in the UK
I never thought that I would write a post suggesting that Boris Johnson's reign as UK Prime Minister was not so bad. But that is the state that we have reached. Compared to the current shit storm that is happening in the United Kingdom Boris…
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Open mike 15/10/2022
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Daily review 14/10/2022
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Open mike 14/10/2022
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