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.
Then they came for the Doctors
It seems that the National Act Government is looking at what is happening in the US of A and thinking that the rolling out of fascist restrictions of freedom of speech is a good thing. And they are starting with health professionals.
Open mike 22/03/2025
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Daily review 21/03/2025
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Open mike 21/03/2025
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Daily review 20/03/2025
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The Libelle liquidation
The first liquidator’s report on Libelle Group Limited suggests the company was hopelessly incapable of performing its role in providing the National-Act Government’s version of school lunches.
Open mike 20/03/2025
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Daily review 19/03/2025
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The World Turned Upside Down (again)
The world is in turmoil as political and economic uncertainty grow, and as conflict spreads. How the Left prepares for the next decade is a pressing challenge.
Cuts to Disability Services Are Part of a Class War
Over the last year, the Coalition has unleashed a series of cuts which have been devastating for the disabled community. These cuts are part of a class war — and it’s time to organise and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Open mike 19/03/2025
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Daily review 18/03/2025
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Open mike 18/03/2025
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Daily review 17/03/2025
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Open mike 17/03/2025
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Open mike 16/03/2025
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Is NZ as Stable as Luxon Claims?
By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.