How To Get There 12/01/20
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 12/01/2020
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Open mike 11/01/2020
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Guest Post – What is wrong with the left?
Guest post from old maaaaate cans about recent Stuff guest columns attacking the left for not civilised enough and wondering if it is because of right wing insecurity.
Royal Move
It’s great to hear Prince Harry and Meghan quitting as senior royals and going off on their own. Maybe others in the Royal Family should think of doing the same.
Open mike 10/01/2020
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A message for conservatives about climate change and nuclear power
David Farrar has criticised young people not for their passion about addressing climate change, but for not supporting nuclear power as a potential solution. Even though it is too risky, too expensive, and too late.
Open mike 09/01/2020
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Iran attacks US bases in Iraq
There are reports of two US bases being hit by missiles launched from within Iran and it is being reported that Iran’s air force is in the air.
Simon Bridges went to China
It has been revealed that Simon Bridges’trip to China last year was organised by National MP and former teacher of English to Chinese spies Jian Yang and that an offer of assistance from MFAT was declined.
Open mike 08/01/2020
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Qasem Soleimani murdered by the United States.
Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog
Australian fires and the climate crisis everybody wanted to ignore
Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s Blog
LBJ Redux
What if the American assassination of General Soleimani results in the complete withdrawal of US troops from the Middle East?
Open mike 07/01/2020
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Get out now
General Soleimani was visiting Iraq at the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister to discuss mediation between the US and Iran. Following his assassination by the US the Iraqi Parliament has voted to ask all foreign troops to leave the country. New Zealand’s remaining troops should bring forward their scheduled departure and leave immediately.
Australia is no longer the lucky country
Australia is arguably no longer the lucky country. And if it does not resolve its addiction to coal it may not have a future.
Open mike 06/01/2020
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How To Get There 05/01/20
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 05/01/2020
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He wasn’t here to help us, was he
The utter failure of the Australian Prime Minister to lead during the bushfire crisis reminds us that it’s care for our children and communities that drives climate action. When people mobilise politicians will follow.
Open mike 04/01/2020
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Known Knowns and All the Other Ones
We cannot know everything and our only option is to trust others who know stuff that we don’t.
That 1914 Feeling
President Trump personally ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite military Quds force. He was killed by rockets fired from US drones over Baghdad Airport. This is unlawful by any standards, as well as an act of war. Iran has promised retaliation.The doomsday clock just moved closer to midnight.
OPCW Scandal.
There was no chemical attack in Douma.
New book reveals Le Carré’s bleak view of post-Brexit world
John le Carré’s 26th book, Agent Running in the Field, which, according to the publishers is his take on Brexit, and suggests a dystopian future for European liberal democracies in a post-Brexit world. It follows John le Carré’s overarching theme – with friends like these, who needs enemies?
Open mike 03/01/2020
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Open mike 02/01/2020
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Goodbye 2019
Throughout the world 2019 was the worst year for the left since 1979. What will 2020 bring?
How To Get There: New Years Day edition
It’s tempting to think of the 2020s as the do or die decade, but deep, abiding, life affirming change will come from framing that also makes people feel good.
Open mike 01/01/2020
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The power of positive campaigning
With the 2020 election just round the corner and recent complaints about the left’s treatment of the #TurnArdern campaign it is a perfect time to think about the importance of language and positive uplifting campaign themes.
Open mike 31/12/2019
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Bridges and the Robertson trial
National has released a video of Simon Bridges talking about the trial he conducted against Tony Robertson and suggesting he is in politics to change the law. But the particular law he appears to be targeting was unchanged during the term of the last National Government.
Open mike 30/12/2019
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Why the Tories won the UK election?
Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog