Daily review 15/02/2019
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Open mike 15/02/2019
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The end of tenure review
Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage has ended the policy of tenure review, under which large tracts of land were privatised and onsold for huge profits and sensitive ecological areas wrecked.
Dead cats and silly sausages
Today in distractions: David Carter is covering for Simon Bridges’ polling results by upsetting the whole idea of non-partisan accountability of the Government to Parliament in select comittees, I give some free advice to the National Party comms team knowing they won’t pull it off, and Mallard has lost patience with non-answers
Daily review 14/02/2019
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$58 billion verses democracy: Bouganville
There’s trouble on the horizon in Bouganville with its government proposing significant changes to its mining law to allow wide scale mining on the island.
Open Mike 14/02/2019
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Can Sexism Save Simon’s Bacon?
National Party in dick pick SHOCKER!!!
Yes, Simple Simon reveals his saucy side as he SHOWS US HIS SAUSAGE.
But is anyone biting?
Daily Review 13/02/2019
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Spark vs Spooks
Spark wants Huawei’s 5G technology because its the best and the cheapest. The GCSB spooks don’t want us to have it because 5Eyes and because the US has yanked their chain. The Prime Minister says no decision has been made – the media and the world think it is a goneburger. We should support New Zealand’s Spark, not US corporate interests.
National crashes select committee meeting
National has decided to play politics and sabotaged today’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee meeting.
Dear St Valentine
Deep in the perpetually joyous realm you inhabit, could you pop over and have a chat to St Francis? I am pretty […]
The leader has my full support
National’s message discipline on support for Leader Simon Bridges is strangely missing.
Open Mike 13/02/2019
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Pollwatch: 11/02/2019
Kia ora koutou readers, and welcome back to the first Pollwatch of 2019, and as our official Worst News™ will tell you, (okay, […]
Daily review 12/02/2019
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Should We Fear Judith Collins?
So, it turns out Simon’s a dud. What do the Tories do about it? And can Judith Collins really make a difference?
Climate change – the ongoing disaster
In my youth back in the late 1970s and early 80s, I did a BSc in Earth Sciences. I learned that our human framework of decades and centuries was but a blink of an eye to nature. Our period, that blink in time, is fast fading.
Sheepgate the final chapter
The final chapter of the Saudi Sheepgate saga has now been written with David Parker pulling the pin on the deal and saving the country $1 million.
Open Mike 12/02/2019
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Latest Reid Research poll result disastrous for National and Bridges
The latest Reid Research poll is disastrous for National.
Daily review 11/02/2019
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Simon Bridges twitter game
Simon Bridges’ twitter account has been tweeting about unusual subjects lately.
Right wing environmental sock puppet party launched
No friends National’s sock puppet party has now been announced.
Open mike 11/02/2019
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Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Jami-Lee Ross has implied that Simon Bridges is being hypocritical in criticising a Government review into mental health.
Open Mike 10/02/2019
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How To Get There 10/2/19
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.
Albert Finney
Actor Albert Finney has died. His break out role as an angry young man railing against stultifying orthodoxy at the start of the sixties may be the greatest debut in film history.
What does the right have against Venezuela?
Simon Bridges has claimed that the Government is going to follow a “Venezuela model” in making much needed reform of the Polytechnic sector. But no one knows what he means.
Open Mike 09/02/2019
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Daily Review 08/02/2019
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The problems with America’s political system
In a series of simple questions shows all that is wrong with the American political system.
Ardern’s state of the nation speech
The text of Jacinda Ardern’s speech delivered this morning.
Trump restarts Nuclear Arms race
Donald Trump has announced that the US will be withdrawing from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and Russia has also given notice. Stand by as the nuclear arms race restarts.
Open Mike 08/02/2019
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