The notion is there’s a left/right continuum and people are smoothly spread across it in a kind of a bell curve. The implication is there’s a big chunk of voters out there who think the same way politically. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.
John Oliver excellent as always – this time on the difference in scandal quality between Clinton & Trump.
Under the rubble of lies…
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Ad ranks post second world war according to criteria which produces some interesting result.
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Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.
Your voting papers may be terrifying, but you have to make them count.
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Watch five-year old Brook Blair give it to Theresa May about homeless people. Got the right answers too. Brilliant!
Congrats to Dame Patsy and how strange it’s always such a small story…
When’s the Republic coming?
So Paula Bennett has been giving a lolly scramble to her National mates with the Rules Reduction Taskforce.
Which is fine, because the Taskforce did great work in finding out that the ‘loopy’ rule of lolly scrambles being illegal wasn’t in fact true.
The downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 was a Russian sponsored war crime. When will Vladimir Putin be arrested?
UPDATE: Animation and actual photos and video of the BUK launcher added.
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Twyford has been made Labour’s campaign chairman, which puts him charge of strategy for the election.
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While politicos were watching Hillary defeat Donald in the first debate, Roy Morgan released their latest poll, showing Labour massively up and National down a chunk. Is the media narrative broken?
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The latest Roy Morgan poll result has support for National plunging and support for Labour surging.
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The first Presidential kicks off this arvo. Who will win? Do we care? Should we care? Stay tuned Standarnistas, it’ll be a doozy!
The Ombudsman is to investigate John Key’s failure to disclose communications with David Farrar and Cameron Slater
Despite politics the world keeps turning. So why is it important and why should everyone vote?
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Matthew Hooton got carried away on Nine to Noon dissing Andrew Little’s views on political strategy and the centre ground that appeared to differ from Helen Clark’s. Stephen Mills piled in too on Jeremy Corbyn and the “missing millions.” All Little said was that he wants to connect with different groups of voters on issues important to them. Can’t argue with that.
Since first posting Who should you vote for? a week ago I’ve been directed to even more endorsement lists and voting guides for local body candidates up and down the country. So if you still don’t know who to vote for, check them out.
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Absolute h/t to Ovid who linked to proposals for a written Consitution for Sir Geoffrey Palmer this morning in Open Mike. The SpinOff […]
A guest post by John P Egan regarding recent industrial action taken by Tertiary Education Union members
Do you work irregular shifts (even only occasionally)? Overtime? Sometimes on Public Holidays?
Then you’re probably part of the 1 in 3 workers owed more than $2 billion lost thru incorrect calculations of holiday pay.
Thanks Steven Joyce.
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Jeremy Corbyn has won a resounding victory in the UK Labour Leadership campaign. But what happens now?
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