Pollwatch for Newshub/Reid Research poll, 18th May 2020
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Date published: 10:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 53 comments
The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is a bloodbath for National- but who are the likely victims? Pollwatch is back, this time with a model for electorate winners and losers to add onto the party vote stats.
What does National do in Epsom?
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 33 comments
Last night’s Reid Research Newshub poll result will be reverberating through National’s caucus. And raises the question, do they gift Epsom to ACT and maybe get a right wing MP or do they preserve every seat they can for themselves.
Open mike 19/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 105 comments
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Newshub Poll Shock!
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Date published: 6:30 pm, May 18th, 2020 - 158 comments
The May 2020 Newshub/Reid Research poll is astonishing. You’ve have, quite literally, never seen anything like it.
Open mike 18/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 18th, 2020 - 136 comments
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“Is there even a point in having the Greens anymore?”
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Date published: 12:31 pm, May 17th, 2020 - 104 comments
Yes lefties, there is, and it’s not rocket science.
Liberal redneck on progress in rural America
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Date published: 11:32 am, May 17th, 2020 - 21 comments
Taking a break from the apocalypse to talk about the problem with the Democrats and rural voters.
Open mike 17/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 17th, 2020 - 131 comments
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Should Parents and Teachers Defy the Government?
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Date published: 4:02 pm, May 16th, 2020 - 66 comments
School’s back on Monday, but the medical community is still struggling to understand covid 19
Oh Sweden
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Date published: 9:53 am, May 16th, 2020 - 108 comments
Just when we thought liberal democracies meant real freedom was an absolute written into human rights stone, by mid-March this year almost all OECD countries had implemented the most draconian reversal of lockdowns on every single human to combat Covid19. Except Sweden. How is it working out?
Don’t infect your feline master!
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Date published: 9:29 am, May 16th, 2020 - 16 comments
In terrible news, our feline masters can both get covid-19, and they can infect other cats. Fortunately so far they have largely been asymptomatic apart from some big cats.
We don’t know if there can be cat to human transmission. But I suspect it is likely. Obvious implications about being a issue for breaking transmission chains.
Open mike 16/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 16th, 2020 - 87 comments
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What the Greens did
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Date published: 12:06 pm, May 15th, 2020 - 39 comments
A round up of the Green Party’s achievements in the 2020 Budget: funding for nature, the commitment to ending violence, and public housing and insulation. And a look at the pragmatics of what the Greens can currently accomplish.
Covid-19: may be endemic
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Date published: 8:51 am, May 15th, 2020 - 53 comments
Like measles, covid-19 could become endemic. Never dying out entirely. Needing to be controlled in human denser populations into the indefinite future. That is the warning from top World Health Organisation officials. Like me, they’re looking at reported research into covid-19 immunities and the picture isn’t encouraging. This is no time to be complacent.
Open mike 15/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 15th, 2020 - 121 comments
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Budget 2020
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Date published: 3:37 pm, May 14th, 2020 - 89 comments
The budget site is up and running. Some links here along with Robertson’s speech. This post may get updated if authors feel like it. Otherwise commenters can praise or criticize. Preferably constructively rather than with mindless waffle.
Viruses love liberty – they can breed more.
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Date published: 11:59 am, May 14th, 2020 - 25 comments
Viruses and other diseases simply don’t care about abstractions like ‘human rights’. They just want to breed. We need a better legislative toolkit to deal with epidemics. There is only so long that a draconian state of emergency should be maintained. Like 1918 we need to start thinking about the future Health Act with reserve powers like level 2 and 1. In the meantime, we’ll deal with the virus with this imperfect act as a tool.
Budget 2020: biggest and best from PM Ardern
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Date published: 8:48 am, May 14th, 2020 - 88 comments
Text of a pre budget speech given yesterday by Jacinda Ardern.
Open mike 14/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 14th, 2020 - 73 comments
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Jacinda is not like Muldoon
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Date published: 9:49 am, May 13th, 2020 - 97 comments
National has decided to play politics with Covid 19 and is opposing the Government’s attempt to pass legislation to secure level 2 arrangements. And has made the extraordinary claim that Jacinda Ardern is just like Rob Muldoon but with slogans.
Open mike 13/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 13th, 2020 - 209 comments
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Bloomfield and the empire strikes back
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Date published: 12:06 pm, May 12th, 2020 - 41 comments
Dr Ashley Bloomfield has responded to allegations by Simon Bridges that the government has suspended the Official Information Act and the Emergency Response Committee has made multiple requests for information from the Ministry that it is waiting for by advising publicly there are no outstanding requests for information.
Covid19 and the Stock Markets
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Date published: 8:30 am, May 12th, 2020 - 33 comments
In this time of uncertainty when mass unemployment beckons you would expect that stock exchanges would be plummeting. But think again. Because they seem to be doing fine.
Open mike 12/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 12th, 2020 - 237 comments
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Covid-19: down to L2 Thursday
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Date published: 4:37 pm, May 11th, 2020 - 44 comments
In the ongoing press conference (RNZ): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a staggered move into level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and bars reopening later and groups limited to 10 people. and She said retail, malls, cafes, restaurants, cinemas and other public spaces including playgrounds and gyms would be able to reopen on […]
Dimwitted habeas corpus duo
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Date published: 12:50 pm, May 11th, 2020 - 28 comments
The well-known duo of Dermot Nottingham and Robert McKinney were the appellants in habeas corpus High Court case against Arden, Bloomfield, and Stuart-Black over the covid-19 lockdown. As was usual for this pair, the grounds that they made their case on were completely flawed, failed to be presented correctly, and make a damn good case against self-representation from vexatious litigants like them.
Covid19 is a bastard
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Date published: 9:25 am, May 11th, 2020 - 128 comments
We are heading towards decision time. Does Aotearoa New Zealand loosen up and head back to a semi normal life?
Open mike 11/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 11th, 2020 - 213 comments
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Israel’s proposed annexation of Jordan Valley
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Date published: 8:53 am, May 10th, 2020 - 18 comments
With Benjamin Netanyahu now reinstated as Prime Minister of Israel, the big annexation of the Jordan Valley is gathering momentum.
Open mike 10/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 10th, 2020 - 159 comments
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UK: Too soon to end the lockdown
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Date published: 12:18 pm, May 9th, 2020 - 17 comments
First Secretary of State Dominic Raab has said that lockdown changes being announced this coming Sunday will be ‘modest’ and ‘small’. This is hardly surprising when earlier in the week the national statistician Professor Ian Diamond said that COVID-19 infection rates could be increasing. In particular, the number of cases being reported in care-homes appears to be increasing. Adding to the pressure both the Scottish and Welsh ruled out any significant relaxation of the lockdown rules.
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