Turkey is in trouble and the US is part of it
The Middle East temperature is heating up and Turkey is finding itself in trouble on many fronts.
What poverty?: Emirates declares 1st Class a success
Looks like the top 1% and the cashed up asset rich are doing just fine. The rest of you, work harder.
Going too far
Physical attacks on politicians is going too far. So too is faking a hate-speech outbreak.
Open Mike 23/02/2016
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Daily Review 22/02/2016
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Business as Usual
Danyl McLauchlan at the Dim-Post remarks that the Opposition continues to be unable to get voters to question the Key Government or to even consider the alternative that they are presenting.
Latest Colmar Brunton poll result
The latest Colmar Brunton poll result suggests that it is not all doom and gloom for the left.
Christchurch – 5 years on
The people of Christchurch don’t need any more words about how brave and resilient they are. They need action.
Open Mike 22/02/2016
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General Lord Dannatt: UK should work with Assad in Syria
Russia understands how to defeat ISIS and the UK should be helping not opposing them, says a former UK Army chief of staff.
Homosexual law reform happened 30 years ago
Some thoughts on yesterday’s gay pride parade and why National has in the space of 30 years changed from being deeply anti gay rights to being superficially in support.
Cyclone Winston
Cyclone Winston is the strongest ever southern hemisphere storm. Fiji has been hit hard.
Open Mike 21/02/2016
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Caption competition
Another poverty report to ignore
Another report on child poverty for the Nats to ignore.
The responses to the Bain report leak
A review of some commentary about the leak of information from the Bain compensation claim report includes a comment from David Seymour which is surprisingly good.
NZMWU scores $144,000 win against Talleys
For the Talley family, $144,000 is nothing, but the fine will sting because the Authority has ordered that it be paid to the Meat Workers Union.
Open Mike 20/02/2016
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Roy Morgan: NAT 48.5% (up 1.5%), LAB/GR 41.5% (unch)
NZ is heading in the right direction, say 56.5% of NZ electors (down 3%).
Glucina Key #ponygate text revealed
Rachel Glucina’s text to John Key sent just after interviewing Amanda Bailey has been revealed.
The difference between decent folk and complete idiots
For a change I’m not going to have a rip at our local idiotic politicians. The most extreme case recently being the now infamous Dildo Baggins. Lets have a look offshore where they are often even worse…
Auckland bus drivers strike
The strike is an escalation of on-going industrial action designed to bring bus company bosses back to the negotiating table with more of a humanitarian, rather than fiscal, attitude to the plight of their workers.
Open Mike 19/02/2016
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A very stupid petulant spoilt child whines again
Good news for law abiding bloggers, the foolish Cameron Slater has to find about 8k to pay for his latest legal hiding by Matthew Blomfield. Whining about these actions to the press like Cameron always does, won’t stop the disciplinary actions. He needs to stop acting like a arsehole blogger.
Daily Review 18/02/2016
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RIP NZ satire
Someone wants to crush Bain’s compensation claim
Leaks to the Herald about details from the report investigating the compensation claim by David Bain suggests that the Government is moving to refuse the claim.
Open Mike 18/02/2016
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Back Stabbers
The National Party Caucus is split and divided over John Key’s vanity project, the flag referendum. For the first time, there have been leaks to the media directly from within Team Key. The signs are ominous for the PM.
Daily Review 17/02/2016
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There are people living in cars
Grant Robertson gave an impassioned speech yesterday in Parliament on how poverty in New Zealand is a disgrace.
John Key’s flag – an exercise in optics
What would the adoption of John Key’s flag symbolise? Well, nothing, really.
Open Mike 17/02/2016
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Daily Review 16/02/2016
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This is not the growth you’re looking for
There are different views on The Standard about growth and whether we really need it. But here’s one bit of growth that really seems pointless to me: that achieved only by increasing the number of people. Because if we’re only increasing GDP by increasing the number of people, as we are currently, we’re loading up the environment and we’re not even individually getting any richer for it. Thanks National.
More blood on its hands as National Ltd™cuts mental health funding in Christchurch
‘ In between slurping simpers during his most recent session of MediaWorks virtual fellatio, John ‘The Liar’ Key managed to express concern for […]