Open mike 08/10/2022
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Daily review 07/10/2022
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Open mike 07/10/2022
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Daily review 06/10/2022
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Own our future
This year’s Local Government election is reaching a critical stage. And it is vital to get the right people elected. Please make sure that your families and friends vote for progressive candidates. Your kids and your grandkids futures depend on it.
Open mike 06/10/2022
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Daily review 05/10/2022
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Open mike 05/10/2022
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Daily review 04/10/2022
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What if we had a Transition Enabling Act?
At a time when we are inundated with news of the end of the world, ideas of the way through are crucial. This one is brilliant – legislation that would enable all the things we need for Transition to happen. The great potential here is for change in a climate-meaningful timeframe.
Open mike 04/10/2022
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Daily review 03/10/2022
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Sometimes in our quest for what is perfect we forget what has been achieved
A list of improvements in workers’ rights that Labour has been able to achieve since gaining power in 2017.
The difference between Simon Wilson and Mike Hosking
Wayne Brown’s mayoral campaign hit a really big pothole on the weekend when he was caught bad mouthing Herald reporter Simon Wilson. His comments received a lot of support from the right on social media who made comments about Wilson similar to the comments the left make about Mike Hosking. Are these examples of the same phenomenon, political bias against critical commentators?
Open mike 03/10/2022
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A few notes on how to get out of this mess
“In an unstable complex system, small islands of coherence have the potential to change the whole system.” – Ilya Progogine.
Open mike 02/10/2022
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Open mike 01/10/2022
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Daily review 30/09/2022
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Local Body Election voting options: Taranaki Regional Council and Urs Signer
Urs Signer is standing for the Taranaki Regional Council, and is speaking a lot of sense about working with farmers, iwi and greenies for a Just Transition.
If Truss was the answer it is difficult to work out what the question was
Liz Truss has been UK Prime Minister for just over three weeks. Instead of enjoying a honeymoon in a short term she has crashed the UK economy and political support for her party and her days must be numbered.
Open mike 30/09/2022
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Daily review 29/09/2022
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Even more proof that Conservatives are not good economic managers
There has been this carefully crafted illusion that conservative politicians are somehow better with the finances than progressive politicians. Recent events in the United Kingdom suggest that this illusion is terribly misplaced.
Caption contest
Keep it seemly.
Open mike 29/09/2022
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Daily review 28/09/2022
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Comrade Chris wants to solve Aotearoa’s housing crisis
Something unusual has happened. Chris Bishop, or as we should now call him Comrade Chris, has come out fully in favour of a vast expansion of the provision of social housing for kiwis.
Open mike 28/09/2022
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Putin and Protest
Interesting to see how the Russian protest plays out over conscription. Odd things happen in gatherings with tyrants. Jan 6 was one. But Romania 1989 was one Putin will know well.
Daily review 27/09/2022
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Open mike 27/09/2022
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The world needs more Izzy Cooks and fewer Heather Du Plessis-Allans
Just when you thought that talk back radio could not be worse there has been a recent incident where Heather Du Plessis-Allan basically bullied a young woman who wants to make the world a better place.
Open mike 26/09/2022
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The Very Bad Slightly Good Things About the Russian Invasion
The Russian invasion of the Ukraine has cost tens of thousands of people their lives, millions of people their homes, seriously disrupted billions of people, and increased the threat of nuclear war but there are positive developments coming from it.
Open mike 25/09/2022
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