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Open mike 17/06/2025
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Daily review 16/06/2025
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Open mike 16/06/2025
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Open mike 15/06/2025
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The West’s war on Iran
I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was the very start of my writing career. The second time was in 2018 and part of my interest was to get a sense of…
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Open mike 14/06/2025
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Daily review 13/06/2025
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Open mike 13/06/2025
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Daily review 12/06/2025
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Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win
Opinion and analysis: In April, I wrote about My Food Bag Co-Founders James and Cecilia Robinson telehealth organisation, Tend, and its chances of securing government contracts. An industry contact wrote this in response to me at the time [interpretation theirs] - “Health procurement doesn’t work…
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The other Jacinda Book
Jacinda's book has now been released. It has attracted many accolades but also a disturbing amount of hate. I am still amazed that someone as gentle as Jacinda should attract such opprobrium. It is almost as if some people are terrified at the prospect of…
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Open mike 12/06/2025
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Daily review 11/06/2025
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Open mike 11/06/2025
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Daily review 10/06/2025
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The Thunberg dilemma
The problem was always going to be that the Israeli Defence Force has better PR. Here's what I saw play out on twitter and with a bit of a foray into MSM (Guardian etc). Activists including Greta Thunberg took a boat across the Mediterranean, ostensibly…
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Open mike 10/06/2025
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Daily review 09/06/2025
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Open mike 09/06/2025
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The Auckland Mayoralty
The race to be Auckland's mayor has become very interesting. This week deputy mayor Desley Simpson announced that she would not be running for the mayoralty and said that she would support current Mayor Wayne Brown instead. A clearer message that National will throw its…
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Open mike 08/06/2025
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Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up
The world's richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? And might we hope for the same fate to befall the NZ Coalition Govt? January 2025. The richest…
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Homelessness up by 58% in Auckland
Excerpt reposted from Mountain Tui It’s hard to tell what’s worse: the National government persisting in prioritising money and non-existent1 “growth” over lives and well-being, or the many people that believe this is the way to succeed. Homelessness spiked up 53% over a few short…
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Trump vs Musk
Never mind the two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, here's one of the wealth class talking about his infection with Democracy Addiction Syndrome and laying out argument after argument against Trump and Musk. Love the old school male…
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Open mike 07/06/2025
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Daily review 06/06/2025
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Meta Ardern
Jacinda Ardern talked to The Rest Is Politics a few days ago about her book A Different Kind of Power, why she left politics, what New Zealand is (good and bad), and her Prime Ministership. This is just over an hour of essential viewing, with…
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Open mike 06/06/2025
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Daily review 05/06/2025
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The trouble with using AI bots
David Seymour has blamed the overwhelming opposition to his Regulatory Standards Bill revealed by the consultation on AI bots. Not the appalling nature of his proposal, nor the clear groundswell against his Atlas inspired piece of legislation. But AI bots. From Ella Stewart at Radio…
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