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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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