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Daily review 26/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 26th, 2020 - 7 comments

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Open mike 26/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 26th, 2020 - 88 comments

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Daily review 25/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 25th, 2020 - 27 comments

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Comrade David signals radical rewrite of Act’s living wage policy

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Date published: 7:36 am, November 25th, 2020 - 75 comments

Comrade David Seymour has signalled that Act may argue for a minimum wage of $50 per hour.

Open mike 25/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 25th, 2020 - 72 comments

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Daily review 24/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 24th, 2020 - 22 comments

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National announces terms of reference for its election campaign review

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Date published: 7:45 am, November 24th, 2020 - 62 comments

National wants to work out what went wrong during the last election.

Open mike 24/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 24th, 2020 - 68 comments

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Daily review 23/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 23rd, 2020 - 1 comment

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Sneak preview of a neoliberal UBI

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Date published: 1:27 pm, November 23rd, 2020 - 21 comments

Giving migrant workers access to insufficient welfare is a financial coercion tool of right wing and centrist economics.

Georgian Republicans are part of the deep state threat to Trump

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Date published: 8:05 am, November 23rd, 2020 - 22 comments

Over in the US of A some amazing claims are being made with Trump’a lawyer claiming that in Georgia, which has perfected the art of disenfranchising Black American voters, there has been a deep seated conspiracy to lose the state for Trump.  And Venezuela is involved.  

No Right Turn: the obvious question

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Date published: 6:05 am, November 23rd, 2020 - 20 comments

One in four property speculators aren’t paying the bright-line tax.

Open mike 23/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 23rd, 2020 - 19 comments

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National’s annual conference

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Date published: 9:47 am, November 22nd, 2020 - 64 comments

National has heeded the calls for change and rejuvination by returning Peter Goodfellow as its president.

Open mike 22/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 22nd, 2020 - 66 comments

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Open mike 21/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 21st, 2020 - 114 comments

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Daily review 20/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 20th, 2020 - 4 comments

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Time’s up Labour

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Date published: 4:50 pm, November 20th, 2020 - 114 comments

It’s not possible to resolve New Zealand’s housing and poverty crises from within a neoliberal frame. Change is going to have to be driven from outside of parliament.

Open mike 20/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 20th, 2020 - 58 comments

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Daily review 19/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 19th, 2020 - 12 comments

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South Australia’s new Covid strain

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Date published: 7:53 am, November 19th, 2020 - 16 comments

During a week in which two Covid vaccines have been announced there is disturbing news coming out of Australia where a new more potent strain of the virus has appeared in South Australia.

Resiliency politics

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Date published: 6:05 am, November 19th, 2020 - 14 comments

With news of more global stressors next year, the stories we tell right now are critical to how we build resiliency. Let’s make sure they are good ones.

No Right Turn: Climate Change – The problem of air travel

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Date published: 6:02 am, November 19th, 2020 - 147 comments

Until the pandemic, air travel was one of the fastest growing causes of greenhouse gas emissions. And its obscenely unequal, with just 1% of the world’s population causing 50% of the problem:

Open mike 19/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 19th, 2020 - 49 comments

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Trump loses the presidency, but Trumpism lives on

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Date published: 12:30 am, November 19th, 2020 - 8 comments

The reality is that the United States is a poor example of a functioning democracy in 2020.

Daily review 18/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 18th, 2020 - 7 comments

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C’mon Grant

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Date published: 10:40 am, November 18th, 2020 - 51 comments

This government must demonstrate that it has the ability to lead the New Zealand economy where it has stated it wants it to go. It does not want more headlines like the average house in Auckland now being priced at $1 million.

Trump’s chances of winning the Presidential Election through legal action

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Date published: 9:05 am, November 18th, 2020 - 19 comments

To win the Presidential Election Donald Trump has to win multiple legal challenges in multiple states.  So far his cases have not gone very well.

Open mike 18/11/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 18th, 2020 - 99 comments

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Daily review 17/11/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 17th, 2020 - 13 comments

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They Are Not Morons

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Date published: 7:00 am, November 17th, 2020 - 76 comments

Donald Trump will be back for another go at the Presidency in 2024. Progressives should underestimate the possibility of his winning. Unless the remaining centre-left generates strategies that are executed so well that people feel the difference good politics makes, the elements of populism arising again will stay ready like the elements of a bomb.