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Open Mike 09/02/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, February 9th, 2019 - 184 comments

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Daily Review 08/02/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 8th, 2019 - 82 comments

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The problems with America’s political system

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Date published: 3:12 pm, February 8th, 2019 - 21 comments

In a series of simple questions shows all that is wrong with the American political system.

Ardern’s state of the nation speech

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Date published: 11:15 am, February 8th, 2019 - 56 comments

The text of Jacinda Ardern’s speech delivered this morning.

Trump restarts Nuclear Arms race

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Date published: 7:55 am, February 8th, 2019 - 58 comments

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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Date published: 7:21 am, February 8th, 2019 - 111 comments

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Daily Review 07/02/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 7th, 2019 - 20 comments

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Should teaching about the Treaty of Waitangi be compulsory?

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Date published: 1:19 pm, February 7th, 2019 - 226 comments

It was sure refreshing to see the current head of the National Party saying on Waitangi Day that teaching of New Zealand history should be compulsory in the New Zealand curriculum.

What should Jacinda Ardern say in her state of the nation speech?

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Date published: 9:00 am, February 7th, 2019 - 71 comments

What are the issues Jacinda Ardern should be talking about when she gives her state of the nation speech tomorrow?

Upset by Offset

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Date published: 7:23 am, February 7th, 2019 - 52 comments

Life is not simply a zero-sum game in which bad behaviour can be offset with good deeds.

Open Mike 07/02/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, February 7th, 2019 - 235 comments

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Open Mike 06/02/2019

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Date published: 9:43 am, February 6th, 2019 - 180 comments

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Happy Waitangi day

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Date published: 9:41 am, February 6th, 2019 - 30 comments

Waitangi day should be a day of celebration and a day of reflection.

Daily Review 05/02/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 5th, 2019 - 37 comments

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Liam Neeson Under the Cosh

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Date published: 9:35 am, February 5th, 2019 - 119 comments

Actor Liam Neeson has made a sensational confession to stalking black men with the intent to kill. No, that’s not the plot to his latest movie, it’s apparently a true story. But what is the wider truth?

UPDATE: Added video of a new Liam Neeson interview regarding the incident.

Mr Brash goes to Waitangi

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Date published: 7:45 am, February 5th, 2019 - 32 comments

Don Brash is heading to Waitangi to tell local iwi that treaty settlements will not make them personally rich.

Open Mike 05/02/2019

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Date published: 7:28 am, February 5th, 2019 - 150 comments

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Daily Review 04/02/2019

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Date published: 5:35 pm, February 4th, 2019 - 52 comments

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Herald and Du Plessis-Allan present compelling argument in favour of industry wide bargaining

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Date published: 7:48 am, February 4th, 2019 - 26 comments

Heather Du Plessis-Allan has written as compelling an article in favour of the the Government’s proposed industry wide negotiations as you could ever think possible.

Open Mike 04/02/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, February 4th, 2019 - 100 comments

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Trump’s brilliant strategy to dismantle US dollar hegemony

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Date published: 5:05 pm, February 3rd, 2019 - 56 comments

Polymath economist Professor Michael Hudson’s latest article is a geopolitical panoramic masterpiece, sparked by outrage at a series of concurrent events on January 31 which he predicts means that 2019 will be the “year of global fracture.” Definitely worth a read.      

Auckland’s yellow jacket protest

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Date published: 1:14 pm, February 3rd, 2019 - 24 comments

Some observations on yesterday’s yellow jacket protest in Auckland. Basically it was pretty mundane but continued vigilance is important.

Open Mike 03/02/2019

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Date published: 11:38 am, February 3rd, 2019 - 57 comments

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How To Get There 3/2/19

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Date published: 6:54 am, February 3rd, 2019 - 137 comments

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.

The Meathead tax

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Date published: 11:28 am, February 2nd, 2019 - 85 comments

National’s claim that the Government wants to impose a meat tax suffers from the reality that the Government has done no such thing and the proposal comes from an International collective of academics.

Open Mike 02/02/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, February 2nd, 2019 - 252 comments

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Daily Review 01/02/2019

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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 1st, 2019 - 36 comments

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Westpac becomes accredited living wage employer

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Date published: 9:41 am, February 1st, 2019 - 33 comments

Westpac Bank has agreed to become an accredited living wage employer which means that its contractors as well as its staff are to be paid a living wage.

Simon Wilson thinks Epsom could be offered to Blue-Greens

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Date published: 8:17 am, February 1st, 2019 - 62 comments

Simon Wilson has suggested that the only way National may have to establish a Blue Green presence in Parliament is to offer them the seat of Epsom.

Migrant’s picnic this weekend at Tamaki Makaurau

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Date published: 7:27 am, February 1st, 2019 - 8 comments

Love Aotearoa is hosting a migrants welcome picnic tomorrow afternoon in Auckland at the same time that the New Conservatives are holding a rally to complain about immigrants being treated properly.

Open Mike 01/02/2019

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Date published: 7:00 am, February 1st, 2019 - 84 comments

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