End of Life Bill passes
David Seymour’s End of Life Bill passed through Parliament last night by 69 votes to 51. We are now facing a referendum at the next election.
Open mike 14/11/2019
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Compassionless Conservatives?
Nick Kelly summaries the lack of compassion shown by Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg during this weeks UK election campaign.
Daily review 13/11/2019
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Open mike 13/11/2019
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Daily review 12/11/2019
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Learning to win fast
While Australia burns its conservative politicians still refuse to accept the enormity of the climate crisis and are acting to hinder and prevent measures that need to be taken to address what is a clear threat to the country’s future.
Open mike 12/11/2019
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Daily review 11/11/2019
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The Middlemarch fire and Dunedin’s water supply
The tussock fire at Middlemarch has impacted Dunedin’s water supply and raises issues about our preparedness for climate change.
Sustainable Party launches
The Sustainable Party, National’s sock puppet party designed to weaken the Greens has launched. And its policies for some strange reason have not put climate change front and centre.
Open mike 11/11/2019
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The Liberal Democrats
Nick Kelly on the Liberal Democrats’ prospects in the upcoming UK elections.
Maybe Nancy was right
There is a very good chance that the upcoming impeachment trial of
President Donald Trump will turn into one massive campaign launch –
one which significantly increases his chances of winning a second
term.
Open mike 10/11/2019
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How To Get There 10/11/19
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.
UK Elections: Parties positions on Brexit
Nick Kelly gives a summary of each major United Kingdom political party.
National’s solution to poverty – make people even poorer
National MP Jo Hayes has advocated for the reduction of poverty levels by making poor people even poorer.
Open mike 09/11/2019
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Daily review 08/11/2019
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Zero Carbon acts – this is how change happens
The Zero Carbon Act is not perfect, but it’s a critical step in the social and political change that is needed to prevent catastrophe.
Open mike 08/11/2019
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Daily review 07/11/2019
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Slapdown
Jacinda Ardern has publicly slapped Shane Jones down for blatantly racist comments by requiring Immigration Officials to reverse a policy change that was adversely affecting Kiwis who have recently entered into arranged marriages.
Police London-wide ban on Extinction Rebellion actions ruled unlawful
“The landmark judgment upholds the peoples’ fundamental right to peaceful protest and prohibits the Police from any such future ban”
Open mike 07/11/2019
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Daily review 06/11/2019
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UK Conservative’s social media is remarkably similar to National’s social media
The British Conservative Party and the New Zealand National Party appear to be using very similar twitter strategies involving the setting of highly edited video to naff music and the making of patently ridiculous claims.
National’s fundamentals
Are National parachuting in a fundamentalist Christian as a Prime Minister hopeful?
Open mike 06/11/2019
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Daily review 05/11/2019
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Remembering the 5th of November and Parihaka
“For Taranaki Māori, 5 November 1881 is known as ‘Te Rā o te Pāhua’ or ‘The Day of Plunder’.”
Young Māori voices on climate action
An indigenous youth delegation from Aotearoa is heading to the 25th UN Climate Talks.
Farage – thorn in the side of the UK Conservatives
Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog
Open mike 05/11/2019
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Daily review 04/11/2019
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