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Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Is Boris gone?
Reports from the UK suggest that Boris Johnson’s reign as Prime Minister may be over because it appears sufficient conservative MPs have a sufficient sense of morality to be outraged about Boris’s Covid lockdown busting ways.
Update: he survived but over 40% of Conservative MPs voted to remove him.
Open mike 07/06/2022
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Open mike 06/06/2022
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China and the Pacific
National and it allies have this week attacked Nanaia Mahuta for not responding to China’s forays in the Pacific. But they do not appreciate the quiet diplomatic work that Labour MPs have been doing in the background or the reasons why the Pacific rejected having a joint security arrangement with China.
Open mike 05/06/2022
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Open mike 04/06/2022
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Daily review 03/06/2022
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Open mike 03/06/2022
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Daily review 02/06/2022
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Climate politics
Quick quiz on which New Zealand politicians led well on climate action in the past 15 years. Which New Zealand town is in a climate emergency today? And how our focus and voting matters if we want to avert climate disaster.
Ardern is apparently to blame for National having racist supporters
Yesterday on Morning Report Chris Luxon pivoted from a question about National supporters expressing distaste for Te Ao Maori to blaming Jacinda Ardern for not burning up political capital on co governance.
Open mike 02/06/2022
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Daily review 01/06/2022
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Open mike 01/06/2022
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Daily review 31/05/2022
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National’s policies don’t add up
In 21 tweets Clint Smith has set out why National’s tax cut policies and its rhetoric are absurd and how the media is doing us a disservice by not asking the hard questions like what will be cut and how the promised tax cuts will be paid for.
Open mike 31/05/2022
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Daily review 30/05/2022
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When Dumb Corporates Kill Thousands. Here.
New Zealand King Salmon has revealed that 42% of their salmon in warm water areas for the year ending January 2022 were just […]
Greenpeace: New research finds dairy industry making Canterbury water “undrinkable”
“There isn’t enough water falling from the sky or pouring down Canterbury’s rivers to actually dilute the nitrate contamination produced by thousands of tonnes of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and over a million dairy cows across the plains,” – Mike Joy
Open mike 30/05/2022
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The problem with keyboard warriors and media commentators
Internationally Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Harvard graduating class has been very well received. But locally not so much.
Open mike 29/05/2022
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Open mike 28/05/2022
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Daily review 27/05/2022
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Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard University Commencement speech
Video and transcript of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s speech at Harvard.
Top Gun
The new version of Top Gun out now is sure to give rise to little think-pieces about how comparable the situation in the Ukraine is or is not to Desert Storm in Iraq or any other US-military led war. Or isn’t.
Open mike 27/05/2022
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Daily review 26/05/2022
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How Russia Loses
Even after just four months it is time count what Russia has lost and will continue to lose.
If not now then when?
Yet another school shooting has occurred this time in Texas with 19 children and two teachers shot. And this weekend the NRA is holding its annual Convention in Texas and Donald Trump is one of the guest speakers.
Open mike 26/05/2022
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Daily review 25/05/2022
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Wood announces boost to Coastal shipping
Transport Minister Michael Wood has announced funding to increase coastal shipping services in New Zealand in a move that will decrease highway congestion, reduce wear and tear on roads, improve employment, support regional development and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Why Is New Zealand So Strong?
As New Zealand signs up to another alliance to shore up our economic security in the face of fast retreats in economic globalisation, it’s worth taking stock of why New Zealand’s economy is so strong.