Opinions
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Daily Review 09/12/2016
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
I agree with Josie Pagani, mostly
Josie Pagani has criticised her friend Nick Leggett for switching to National and not sticking to his principles.
Charter schools fiddling their results
Charter schools are fiddling their results. Just another example of the way that education for profit is all about profit, with education hardly getting a look in. All of National’s ideological interventions in education are failures.
Bill English to be elected as National Leader
Video of left wingers responding to the news that Bill English will be National’s next leader.
Open Mike 09/12/2016
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Daily Review 08/12/2016
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Collins withdraws and pledges to support English
Judith Collins has withdrawn from the leadership race and pledged support for Bill English.
Caretaker Bill, Cigar Coleman, and Countess Homogenised
What would happen if the EU fell apart?
The EU has had a difficult year and its future looks uncertain. What happens if it goes?
David Shearer resigning?
The Herald has reported that David Shearer is expected to resign, forcing a by election in the new year.
Open Mike 08/12/2016
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Daily Review 07/12/2016
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The Standard is offering to the National Party leadership contenders guest post slots
In the spirit of bi partisanship the Standard wishes to offer the candidates for leadership of the National caucus guest post slots and the ability to answer readers’ questions.
Meanwhile, the Housing Crisis
Bill English and Paula Bennett won’t be thinking about it this week, but Auckland’s Housing Crisis continues to get worse.
Three’s a crowd
The policy wonk, the ambitious change-maker, or the no-bullshit bullshitter – the contenders for National Party Prime Minister set out their stalls yesterday with John Campbell. Just like the Kaikoura quake, their pitches exposed some complex fault-lines. It’ll be a long week in politics.
Barbecue season
Now that we are entering the post Key era the Barbecue season presents the perfect time for all good progressives to talk to everyone about the importance of politics.
Open Mike 07/12/2016
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Daily Review 06/12/2016
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Mr Key’s Achievements
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Nat MPs one week window of relevance
Key has been so dominant for so long that Nat MPs have become invisible. But now, for one glorious week, they enjoy a brief window of relevance. And the infighting has begun.
John Key’s legacy
What is John Key’s legacy? Rampant Crown debt, child poverty, homelessness, climate change, dirty politics …
Key’s 4th term – something doesn’t add up
Key has long craved a “historic” 4th term. Interviewed on 24 September he was still saying he wanted it, he now claims he had already decided to quit. While rumours are hard to believe, something doesn’t add up here.
Open Mike 06/12/2016
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Daily Review 05/12/2016
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Who will be the next National leader?
Following the shock resignation of John Key as Prime Minister the question will be asked. Who will the next leader of the National Party be?
Key’s gone …
John Key has announced that he will be standing down as Prime Minister from December 12, 2016.
The many and varied thoughts of John Key on the Mt Roskill By election
An analysis of things that John Key said about the Mt Roskill shows a series of contradictory positions were taken at various times of the campaign.
Open Mike 05/12/2016
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A little humour
The alt list of the most influential Aucklanders
And now for an alternative version of the Aucklanders most likely to make a difference to our city but who will not feature in the Herald’s spy column.
Hickey on surpluses and Key’s bullshit
Bernard Hickey: “It is extraordinary for the Prime Minister to call the Treasury’s short and long term forecasts a “load of nonsense” and yet rely on the medium term ones to promise all manner of riches to voters on the eve of an election.”
The Essential-Forest Gardener – native or exotic
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, this week looking at usefulness of natives and exotics in a forest garden.
Labour landslide – media roundup
Audrey Young: “The Labour leader has described the win as ‘a bloody nose for National’. It is more like a bloody nose, a black eye and broken jaw.”
Update: As of 11am not a single story on Mt Roskill appears on the online front pages of either The Herald or Stuff. What a surprise!
Open Mike 04/12/2016
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