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Found this neat site that harvests and analyses election results at many government levels worldwide. Lots of info for each. Here’s their report on the Berlin elections, for example. https://electiomap.com/germany/state/2026-berlin ‘The Left makes the …

Spotted this substack on the fall of the Greens there. ‘Once a party of visionaries, they are now struggling to define their purpose. To survive, they must choose: recommit to radical climate action or fully embrace pragmatic centrism. Without clear …

Well, Barbara Edmonds does have 8 rental properties, as well as 8 children, showing she knows how to make money the easiest way in NZ. Doesn’t rule out a Greens-Labour rent cap. Or working towards an LVT or estate tax. Or removal of no-fault eviction, …

Doesn’t waking teens at 5.30 am and making them run 20k before breakfast essentially have the same result?

My speculation here: the geography plays a big part. This all happened in a rural area, where everybody knows each other’s business, especially the local cops, who are perhaps more matey with some than with others. While OT, I’m guessing, was some distance …

I strongly get the feeling that private-school educated Phillips, from a well-known, well-respected local Pakeha farming family, appeared more credible to OT and the police than his Maori partner, who seems to be struggling to see her children post-rescue. …

Doubt that’s the Greens, supplements are not the same as organic veges. That’s rather Kennedy Jnr’s MAHA schtick in the US Heath Department. Supplements, and as many of them as the grifters can supply, is the public health tool of choice there. While …

Your last paragraph 100%. An estate duty, yes, is fair across all property owners, as it’s one-off and forseeable. The LVT will bleed off not only between-generation wealth, but reduce the possibility of a roof over one’s head for poorer people, no matter …

It’s not every small detail, it’s the crux of OP’s political pitch.

Isn’t Murdoch riffing on Muldoon’s anti SuperFund cartoon, with dancing Cossacks representing Labour? Although does that make Chloe Sir Rob?

Unlike the Olympics, this contest in nation-strutting is annual. Hence an annual humiliation by the European nations the Brits rather look down on as inferior (it’s won by popular vote). Plus, Brits rather fancy themselves as cheesey popsters. And it’s no …

This longform article itemises the various techbro philosophies that sprung up in Silicon Valley, and describes their fusion into the “Dark Enlightenment” and transfer into political action. This is not just a theoretical analysis, it describes the strands …

The link to the website https://www.forbrukerradet.no/shortlife/

Luxon touting Christchurch and Cantabury as an ‘economic powerhouse’, reckons we can do the same in the rest of NZ ‘without an earthquake’. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch/project-canterbury-luxon-praises-christchurch-tech-growth-rebuild-and- …

Carney…was a vocal opponent of BREXIT, sorry.