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Oh, Yulia!

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Date published: 3:05 pm, July 18th, 2018 - 60 comments

Whodunnit?

What is eating Mike Hosking?

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Date published: 9:12 am, July 18th, 2018 - 77 comments

Mike Hosking appears to have entered into a particularly dark time.

Open Mike 18/07/2018

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Date published: 5:53 am, July 18th, 2018 - 95 comments

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Daily Review 17/07/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 17th, 2018 - 6 comments

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Trumputin

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Date published: 8:10 am, July 17th, 2018 - 206 comments

Donald Trump has directly contradicted the collective decision of the United States Security agencies by denying that there was Russian involvement in the last US general election.

Free Speech Coalition’s litigation strikes a major snag

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Date published: 7:59 am, July 17th, 2018 - 138 comments

The free speech coalition’s desire to get the High Court to enforce the rights of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux has struck a potential snag. A rather major snag.

Open Mike 17/07/2018

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Date published: 5:53 am, July 17th, 2018 - 71 comments

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Wool. Eyes. Pull.

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Date published: 5:52 pm, July 16th, 2018 - 8 comments

As though politicians with a social democratic bent don’t have enough to contend with…

Daily Review 16/07/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 16th, 2018 - 16 comments

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Do republicans really want to arm infants?

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Date published: 10:40 am, July 16th, 2018 - 17 comments

It appears that Sacha Baron Cohen has succeeded in getting prominent Republicans to say stupid things about arming kids.

Trump meets Putin

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Date published: 9:03 am, July 16th, 2018 - 116 comments

Some things that President Trump won’t do as when meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

Open Mike 16/07/2018

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Date published: 6:03 am, July 16th, 2018 - 102 comments

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No Mates National

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Date published: 1:10 pm, July 15th, 2018 - 68 comments

Peter Dunne has some sage advice for National; phone a friend. If you can find one.

Free Tommy Robinson *

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Date published: 10:29 am, July 15th, 2018 - 66 comments

* with every purchase.

Open Mike 15/07/2018

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Date published: 6:03 am, July 15th, 2018 - 152 comments

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In Short…

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Date published: 11:53 am, July 14th, 2018 - 49 comments

A post puzzling over our collective state of mind in the face of incredible danger and suggesting the only course of action we can take. Covering our eyes and blocking our ears isn’t it.

Kia Ora Gaza’s Open Letter to Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters

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Date published: 6:45 am, July 14th, 2018 - 42 comments

. . . Mike will join many other prominent human rights advocates from around the world and international media personnel on this peaceful and non-violent civil society mission to challenge Israel’s illegal and inhumane 11-year naval blockade of Gaza . . .

Open Mike 14/07/2018

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Date published: 6:03 am, July 14th, 2018 - 54 comments

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Theresa May’s and England’s bad week

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Date published: 4:01 pm, July 13th, 2018 - 47 comments

In the space of a week England has lost in its goal of winning the world cup, had three senior ministers resign over May’s “soft” BREXIT proposal and now Donald Trump has effectively called for Theresa May to be replaced by Boris Johnson.

Property price decline

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Date published: 8:30 am, July 13th, 2018 - 61 comments

What would happen if the house prices of Auckland, Queenstown, and other centres of very high debt went into substantial and long term decline?

Miners having a whale of a time

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Date published: 6:15 am, July 13th, 2018 - 59 comments

Ironsands Offshore Mining Ltd allowed to drill and extract bulk samples from the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary

Open Mike 13/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 13th, 2018 - 56 comments

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Daily Review 12/07/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 12th, 2018 - 16 comments

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Nurses deserve our support

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Date published: 6:30 am, July 12th, 2018 - 101 comments

Perhaps the Labour-led coalition might choose to reflect on it priorities – the sufficient funding of essential public services or buying billion-dollar war machines from the Donald Trump regime.

Open Mike 12/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 12th, 2018 - 99 comments

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There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech

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Date published: 6:48 pm, July 11th, 2018 - 186 comments

There’s never been Free Speech and that’s not actually much of a problem according to Te Reo Putake, who is no stranger to the downside of Saying Things.

Daily Review 11/07/2018

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Date published: 5:47 pm, July 11th, 2018 - 16 comments

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Free Speech.

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Date published: 11:32 am, July 11th, 2018 - 179 comments

It’s a principle.

The free speech coalition that is actually quite expensive

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Date published: 8:07 am, July 11th, 2018 - 168 comments

The Free Speech coalition, formed to protect freedom of speech for the far right, has amongst its members some whose views on what freedom of speech actually is are unusual.

Unparliamentary Language

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Date published: 8:00 am, July 11th, 2018 - 13 comments

“His brain could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides”

Open Mike 11/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 11th, 2018 - 109 comments

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