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Sunday reading

Bunji — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:48:14 +0000

A couple of good BBC articles: what have the Romans done for us? and can we have a society that doesn't depend on us becoming ill with our fatness? And Kim Hill's excellent interviewee Steve Keen.

Not with a bang but a whimper

Anthony R0bins — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:12:22 +0000

Bad news from Bonn. Not that you'd know it from NZ media coverage of course.

Open mike 27/05/2012

The Standard — Sat, 26 May 2012 18:00:42 +0000

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Open mike 26/05/2012

The Standard — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:00:57 +0000

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ImperatorFish: Budget’s School Report

The Standard — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:31:11 +0000

Budget is a sluggish student who shows no enthusiasm or energy, and must be coaxed into making even the tiniest effort. His attitude is all wrong. He is something of a braggart, repeatedly telling all of his peers how fast he is, even though when challenged to a race he always finds an excuse to back out.

Weekend social 25/05/2012

The Standard — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:00:45 +0000

Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?

Caption competition

The Standard — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:58:53 +0000

Open mike 25/05/2012

The Standard — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:45 +0000

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Where National lost control of the budget spin

Eddie — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:04:05 +0000

Poor political choices, lazy spin management, a succession of statistics highlighting National's poor management of the economy, a much more active Opposition, and, let's not forget, a much less friendly media ever since the teapot tapes have combined to make this the first budget that has hurt National, rather than bolstered it.

Open mike 24/05/2012

The Standard — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:00:50 +0000

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Open mike 23/05/2012

The Standard — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:00:01 +0000

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ImperatorFish: Take Your Medicine

The Standard — Tue, 22 May 2012 06:54:17 +0000

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.
You've probably heard a lot about the National government's austerity measures, and I know you're probably worrying whether this belt-tightening is really worth it.

10,000 posts

Eddie — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:22:06 +0000

1,376 days ago a handful of us, lead by Lynn, got together to set up The Standard. The was idea for a strong left-blog to counter the dominance of the Right in the blogosphere. I reckon we've succeeded. We've had 413,000 comments and over 13 million pageviews. We've had 40 authors over the 3.5 years - 3 of us are left from the start - and 528 guest posts. The community, and the readership, keeps on growing massively.

Open mike 22/05/2012

The Standard — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:00:21 +0000

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ImperatorFish: Good News On Asteroid Front Shows Government On Track

The Standard — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:07:20 +0000

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A guest post from the Finance Minister.