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When I heard that the Prime Minister was making a special announcement yesterday I experienced a sense of dread. It seemed clear to me that she was not herself. The effusive jubilant Jacinda of previous years had more recently appeared to become very tired and…
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Dear Jacinda You probably will not remember me. I was the campaign manager for Andrew Little when he ran for Labour Leader back in 2014. The last time we met was in Burger Fuel on Cuba Street the day after you took over as Labour…
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Jacinda Ardern has just announced she is standing down as Prime Minister from February 7 and will not seek re-election. Further details will follow. Update: Grant Robertson has said that he will not be seeking the leadership. Jacinda Ardern's statement on Facebook: The General Election…
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Back in the days when I blogged on my own rather obscure website I started to receive attention because I talked about the internal workings of the Labour Party. Then one day I received an email from someone who I will call Whaledump. He or…
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According to massive property owner Graeme Fowler, the world view about money New Zealanders have governs our place in society. Often, the difference between poor people, rich people and middle-class people isn’t how much money they have, or even how much they make. The difference…
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The Electoral Commission has published parties' return of donations of $30,000 or more received in the past year and the results are interesting. National has performed extraordinarily well and has received $2.3 million from large donors. ACT also performed well from the largesse of the…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog The premiership of Liz Truss will be remembered for many years to come. She will be remembered as being the shortest-serving former UK prime minister (for now), resigning after seven weeks. It will be remembered that only two days…
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Without a doubt the funniest climate action I've seen. The replies are a delight. Scroll down for the Benny Hill version. https://twitter.com/FoodForestNetwk/status/1614470043185647616 https://twitter.com/FoodForestNetwk/status/1614508951038742528 The Benny Hill version https://twitter.com/AndPassion4All/status/1614505514078969858 https://twitter.com/cerovest/status/1614550131554000896 https://twitter.com/_maxgranger/status/1614476097877610497
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One thing that really impressed me about the last Auckland Mayoral campaign run by Wayne Brown was how simple his campaign messaging was. It was extraordinarily simple. Auckland was broken and he was the man to fix it. His policy platform was remarkably sparse. He…
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The demise of Boris Johnson's premiership in 2022 was both a surprising political upset and entirely predictable at the same time. It was a political upset when considering the large majority the Conservative Party won in 2019 under his leadership, the best result of any…
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Originally Published on Nick Kelly's Blog As the world currently goes through a post-pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine fuelled economic crisis, it is interesting to reflect on the economic crisis of over a decade ago and how the public responded at that time. After…
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This is a tweet that Stuart Smith put up on Twitter yesterday. It has received a significant amount of blowback, as it deserved. The tweet is more than a little naughty. Fancy proposing that climate change should not be taught in schools. As the world…
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Kathleen Stock is a British philosopher and feminist who left her teaching position at Sussex University in late 2021 after being serially harassed by gender identity (trans) activists demanding that she be fired for her gender critical feminist views. Her resignation came after the harassment…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog Throughout my time being active in politics, people have discussed the rise of Neo-Liberalism and the free market that occurred throughout much of the world from the late 1970s onwards. Yet few seem to really understand the reasons for…
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I don't know if the motivation was to increase social media interaction or just to have a go at the Government but the potentially most ridiculous article of the year has already been posted and we are only 10 days in. Brook Sabin has posted…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Last week we saw extraordinary scenes from the US House of Representatives. The election of the Speaker, normally a formality whereby the winning party gets behind a candidate, became an utter circus where 15 rounds of voting occurred before…
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I'm back at work at my home office desk today. I have to say that the weather generally sucked in Auckland and the north of the North Island over my break. Waiting for Luxon and his brain-dead minions will blame the weather on the government…
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