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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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 17th, 2020 - 93 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 16th, 2020 - 3 comments
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Date published: 9:33 am, November 16th, 2020 - 37 comments
America is in some trouble. Covid19 is surging. The third wave is hitting hard. Suddenly 100,000 daily new infections is not a scary possibility, 200,000 is. And a group of Americans have been persuaded that Trump has had the election stolen off him.
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Date published: 8:50 am, November 16th, 2020 - 90 comments
Christchurch transition engineer Susan Krumdieck lays out the realities of the various crises we are facing, and why green tech won’t save us. What can we do instead?
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 16th, 2020 - 110 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 15th, 2020 - 93 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2020 - 101 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 13th, 2020 - 8 comments
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Date published: 8:07 am, November 13th, 2020 - 145 comments
In Aotearoa New Zealand we are facing a new crisis. Not Covid, although the recent case of community spread is deeply concerning. The crisis is the value of houses.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2020 - 83 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 12th, 2020 - 3 comments
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Date published: 4:46 pm, November 12th, 2020 - 32 comments
News of a new community case in Auckland, and the need for us all to be taking precautions and keeping track of our movements and contacts.
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Date published: 8:24 am, November 12th, 2020 - 58 comments
Normally when you lose an election you say nice things about the winner and make way for them. But is Trump doing this in the US of A? No sirree. From refusing Biden transition resources to instructing officials not to cooperate with Biden’s team to mass sackings of Defense officials to various failed cases Trump is obstructing the transition every step of the way.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2020 - 114 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 11th, 2020 - 17 comments
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Date published: 7:00 am, November 11th, 2020 - 36 comments
IF the discovery of a potential Covid vaccine looks like a new dawn, let’s not forget that this is the accelerating point of the K-shaped recovery New Zealand have been dreading. Our already rich are on the line heading upwards. They are getting richer because of a range of our Government policies.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2020 - 136 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 10th, 2020 - 48 comments
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Date published: 7:43 am, November 10th, 2020 - 76 comments
Now the dust is settling on the US election result the one question I have is why was it even close?
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 10th, 2020 - 136 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 9th, 2020 - 16 comments
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Date published: 9:52 am, November 9th, 2020 - 45 comments
The rush back home has definitely been happening and appears to mainly be constrained at present by the limits on quarantine facilities. It has already helped to mitigate the drops in immigration and probably will in the future. Nowhere near as economically important and productive as our exports. But useful for reducing unemployment for those not exposed to the export economy.
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Date published: 8:05 am, November 9th, 2020 - 51 comments
Over in the United States of America the country is descending into chaos. But so far the farcical type of chaos as opposed to the violent type of chaos and this is a good thing.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 9th, 2020 - 108 comments
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Date published: 8:53 am, November 8th, 2020 - 19 comments
It is customary for outgoing Presidents to leave for the incoming President a short letter of introduction. The Standard has managed to obtain a early draft copy of Donald Trump’s letter to Joe Biden drafted while he was playing golf.
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Date published: 6:54 am, November 8th, 2020 - 92 comments
At last. All of the main US media organisations have now called the election for for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with Pennsylvania. The eventual electoral college vote looks to be over 300 – well above the 270 required as Arizona and Nevada are called. It looks like Georgia will wind up the same way.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 8th, 2020 - 55 comments
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Date published: 11:29 am, November 7th, 2020 - 39 comments
I hope that I am not tempting fate by saying this but a Biden presidency seems almost inevitable. But presuming he prevails the transition is going to be one of the most difficult and most important in America’s history.
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Date published: 6:05 am, November 7th, 2020 - 79 comments
Day four of the US election (general discussion thread).
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Date published: 6:03 am, November 7th, 2020 - 35 comments
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