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Christopher Luxon's much vaunted social media team have probably taken up day time drinking, quite possibly for breakfast. Because he has this innate ability to say the most negative wet and whiny and miserable things which must irritate most kiwis. Who can forget his repeated…
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The problem with National's relentless negativity over the past few years is that it opens them up to allegations of hypocrisy. Who can forget last year when then opposition leader Christopher Luxon said this: Opposition leader Christopher Luxon says he will not use Defence Force…
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Simeon Brown has reached deep into his bag of culture war topics and come up with an unusual one, we need to increase speed around schools and make safety worse because we need to balance kids safety with convenience and saving fractions of time in…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog Last weekend the EU elections saw a significant increase in support for the populist/alt-right in European elections. I deliberately avoid using the term far-right. It would be too simplistic and inaccurate to paint a picture of Europe re-living the…
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ACT MP and Minister for Employment and Safety, Brooke van Velden has announced a “consultation” on our Health & Safety laws, saying this : Our health and safety culture can be summed up by the sea of orange road cones that have taken over the…
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National and their minion parties just announced another massive $400 million R&D subsidy for agricultural greenhouse gases by taxpayers for the low profit industry of pastoral farming. This joins the other large and hidden subsidies levied on tax and rate payers to support rural and…
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It was always going to happen but it still rankles that an attempt to get farming to at least confront the damage it causes to the climate is being put on hold. He Waka Eke Noa was the last Government's attempt to get the farming…
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This past Sunday I spent a day canvassing for the Labour Party in Gillingham and Rainham - a Kent constituency where 2019 the Conservative Party candidate won with a 15,000 majority. Conservations with constituents made it clear that the Conservatives are in trouble. Like the…
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Like tens of thousands of others yesterday I attended Greenpeace's War on Nature protest. It was huge, the biggest I have seen in a long time. An hour after the march started people were still joining in from Aotea Square. Estimates of 20,000 being present…
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If one were to imagine a really bad re-make of The Fast and the Furious with really poor production execution and bad actors, one could realistically dream up something that would resemble the coalition government, despite the obligatory (imaginary) movie’s disclaimer. Such an exercise in…
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Cross-posted from Eugene Doyle Solidarity The Armavir Incident - the destruction on 23 May of a key part of Russia’s nuclear defence - means the Doomsday clock is ticking closer to midnight. Most people don’t even know that a long-distance Ukrainian/NATO drone attack on the…