Go Phil!
Phil Goff doubles down on criticism of Trump’s lies.
Open mike 04/04/2025
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Daily review 03/04/2025
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US imposes 10% tariff on NZ imports
While 10% is at the lower end of this unjustified tax, it is very serious for our whole NZ economy.
Open mike 03/04/2025
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Daily review 02/04/2025
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Open mike 02/04/2025
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Daily review 01/04/2025
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Vilification of Russia not good for peace in Europe.
Putinversteher – one who “understands” Putin. It is meant as a slur but Professor Geoffrey Roberts, a British historian of Russia, embraces the term.
The RNZ-Reid Research poll
The new RNZ/Reid Research poll has its first results.
Open mike 01/04/2025
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Daily review 31/03/2025
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Open mike 31/03/2025
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NZ Leftist Collective March 2025
Samah Huriwai-Seger, Shane te Pou. Craig Renney, Kieran McAnulty, hosted by Pat Brittenden
Open mike 30/03/2025
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When Government does not want to listen to the people
The Coalition is utterly disrespectful to the people.
Open mike 29/03/2025
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Daily review 28/03/2025
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What Tamatha Paul Really Said
Tamatha Paul’s comments on policing have been criticised by Luxon as “insane” but a closer look at what she really said shows how much her comments have been taken out of context.
Meanwhile, National’s law and order track record is only deteriorating.
But her emails
Recent events in the US involving the use of Signal to discuss top secret military news and accidentally including a reporter in the chat suggests that the US of A is currently resembling a dark satirical cross between Monty Python and The Thick of It.
Open mike 28/03/2025
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Daily review 27/03/2025
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Yeah, Nah, National Don’t Deserve A Second Term
A response to right wing commentator Matthew Hooton.
The Draft Electoral Boundaries
The Representation Commission’s draft boundaries for the next election have been released. And despite right wing claims to the contrary at least in Auckland the boundaries appear to favour the left.
Open mike 27/03/2025
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Daily review 26/03/2025
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Open mike 26/03/2025
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Daily review 25/03/2025
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Winston’s war on wokeness
In what looked like an early election campaign launch Winston Peters has done his old man shaking his fist at the sky tirade against everything woke.
Open mike 25/03/2025
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Daily review 24/03/2025
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Posturing is not policy. How the West doomed Ukraine.
Henry Kissinger nailed it back in 2014: “For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.”
Open mike 24/03/2025
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The Unbearable Weight of Being a Useful Idiot
Res Publica takes aim at modern day ‘tankies’. Pro-authoritarian leftist, who can apologise for any authoritarian regime provided that it is intellectually cloaked in the ‘correct’ rhetoric and a veneer of geo-politics. In their view, modern day tankies are only good at reducing the left’s credibility to rubble in real-time.
Open mike 23/03/2025
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Reasons for Optimism
We’re good, but we know we want better leadership.