I don't think that Orr is at all popular with National, either. Political parties across the entire spectrum have a long and proud tradition of ragging on the RB Governor whenever it's politically relevant to do so. There are reasonable criticisms you ...
Luxon has no mandate and he at least knows it. Muttonbird-math asserts that 39 is actually less than 27.
...observe tradeable and non-tradeable measures move in similar ways and that's because they are not actually independent of one another. This is simply untrue. There has been a common sharp uptick in both tradeable and non-tradeable inflation rates over ...
As a Cantabrian, I demand you take back that slanderous accusation that anyone can be as one-eyed and parochial as a Cantabrian is about their sports teams.
considers living in Dunedin in 1982 as the pinnacle of his life. That might potentially be the most savage burn on a person's character I have ever read.
Musk's purchase has loaded the company up with so much debt that the interest servicing cost alone exceeds ad revenues. The immediate risk is not that the user base evaporates, but that there is no money to keep the servers going, the staff paid, and the ...
People from every side of the political spectrum go on there and abuse each other all day every day. Meh. Not that different to an average day here. The comedy and creative arts scene has a vibrant and thriving Twitter community. Sports twitter has a ...
But for all of the genetic faults of royal inbreeding, the British ones do have a habit of living for fucking ages. William's great grandmother cracked 100 and famously got a telegram from her daughter. Both his paternal grandparents made it comfortably ...
...concentrated on that we could do it rather than why we would want to do it... none of them provide a reason why we need to change. I think you could reasonably look to the bloodshed that America, India, and countless other nations have gone through over...
Who are the ones using human shields again… Explain to me how civilians being killed when apartment blocks in suburban neighbourhoods are struck by Russian shelling is Ukraine 'using human shields'.
If you think the systematic marginalisation and/or elimination of Jewish people from a society in the 1800's and 1900's is exclusively a trait of fascist or nazi regimes, then your view of history is absurdly myopic.
Of course the Ukrainians fought shoulder to shoulder with the…Nazis Hey, maybe you can help me find Ukraine on this map from 1939? https://omniatlas.com/maps/europe/19390916/
"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" ― Henry Kissinger Even a broken clock (who is the single most heinous war criminal of the 21st century and also a literal traitor) can tell the right time.
New Zealanders continue to work hard and long and cheap. Average incomes in NZ are on par with the UK, France, and Japan. Behind Australia but ahead of Italy, Spain, and South Korea. The idea that we are a low wage economy is, to put it bluntly, fucking ...
my core objection to woke is that takes what are fundamentally good causes and turns them into sources of division and suspicion. This is way too Chicken-and-egg, RL. For instance, whatever wokeness exists within the Trans-rights movement has developed ...
Video games, rap music, movies with fast cars... it's the boomer parent trifecta of fears that has as much intellectual merit as previous generations fearing women riding bicycles.
Hands up everyone who has ever seen Top Gun and didn't immediately go out and invade a foreign country. The Belgian Revolution was sparked by a patriotic opera performance in 1830.
I'm slightly too young to have seen the original Top Gun in theatres, but I can still remember the hilarious fretting and handwringing that went on within circles of 'concerned parents' when The Fast and the Furious was supposed to be the cause of a spate ...
I get that it's Soloviev's job to churn out propaganda for the masses, but it's just fucking embarrassing to see so many people willingly swallow the idea that Ukranian history started around 1917, as if there wasn't literally thousands of years of ...
In 2020 Labour won more party votes than National in Tauranga. Last time they beat national head-to-head on party vote was 2002. Not standing a candidate in the by-election would be a massive 'fuck you' to the 18 and a half thousand people who party voted ...
Sounds just like some of the commenters here believing that everyone to the right of Jacinda is secretly a full blown Nazi.
I'll start a rumour right here and now that they'll end up getting one of the directors on the Port of Tauranga board.
I can’t imagine Winston Peters not being a candidate. Winston Peters last won the Tuaranga electorate in 2002. A significant chunk of his most ardent supporters in the region are quite literally dead to him.
Jesus H Christ, that second tweet is just as deranged as anything out of the "I don't like it so it must be communism" playbook.
It's not NATO's fault that Ukraine wants western assistance to protect them from a neighbouring nation that has already annexed a chunk of their land, actively supported breakaway factions, and for years openly said they want to retake the entire region on...
the ethos of the last four decades of the shift to ‘just-in-time’ has been shifting back to stocking ‘just-in-case’. Holding excess stock or input materials is *really expensive* and even if you're holding conservative levels of 'just in case' stock, very ...
It's more like the morning after a big Curry and Lager session.
No one has heard of any other ACT politician besides Seymour. No one had heard of Seymour before he got the job and, on purely numerical terms, he has been ACTs most successful leader. shrugs
**** Results excluded for Mike Moore, Geoffrey Palmer, and Bill English because... we couldn't be arsed asking about the people that no-one remembers held the top job?
I liked the assessment of measured commenter Brian Gould about CL. “For Christopher Luxon, having run Air New Zealand is far from a qualification for the top job but quite the opposite.” I honestly couldn't give a shit who leads National, but Gould is just...
Orr's concerns are theoretically right, but practically not really relevant. Firstly, the Reserve Bank requires that directors of regulated entities operate at all times in the best interests of the company, not their shareholder. It's explicitly a ...
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