Open mike 16/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 16th, 2020 - 109 comments
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Covid-19 and a digital democracy
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Date published: 7:30 pm, March 15th, 2020 - 20 comments
Government has for the last decade been pushing for as many government services as possible to be primarily accessed digitally rather than face-to face. Funnily enough, the one public service they forgot to push to digital is themselves. Now’s the time Trevor.
Remember March 15
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Date published: 8:34 am, March 15th, 2020 - 9 comments
Today marks the first anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque shooting.
How To Get There 15/03/20
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2020 - 2 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 15/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2020 - 136 comments
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Covid-19 – a political problem
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Date published: 11:08 pm, March 14th, 2020 - 103 comments
Juice Media on the essential facts about the spread of Covid-19. It concentrates on the United States, where personally I’m picking the US, by the end of the year, as being the biggest medico-political screw up world wide after Iran. Early wishful thinking and a lack of transparency cost lives. Pathetic bullshitting simply doesn’t help.
No Right Turn: Ghost homes should be used to house the homeless
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Date published: 7:05 am, March 14th, 2020 - 100 comments
Idiot/Savant writes about empty houses and the homeless.
Open mike 14/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 14th, 2020 - 135 comments
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How does the government handle a pandemic induced world recession?
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Date published: 8:54 am, March 13th, 2020 - 152 comments
With the world’s economy in turmoil and infection rates continuing to surge the responses of different countries to the crisis shows markedly different results. And the issue could be the determining issue of this year’s election.
Open mike 13/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 13th, 2020 - 134 comments
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Daily review 12/03/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 12th, 2020 - 40 comments
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It’s time for Auckland to work
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Date published: 8:44 am, March 12th, 2020 - 12 comments
2020 will now be the year that New Zealand will now rely on Auckland to get its shit together.
Open mike 12/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 12th, 2020 - 90 comments
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Daily review 11/03/2020
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Date published: 5:52 pm, March 11th, 2020 - 10 comments
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Workers 1, Bridges 0: Minimum Wage Rise to Go Ahead
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Date published: 3:31 pm, March 11th, 2020 - 23 comments
Labour have confirmed that they will lift the minimum adult wage on April 1st. This is great news for workers and SME’s!
Coronavirus and the State
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Date published: 2:52 pm, March 11th, 2020 - 37 comments
A few weeks ago I slagged off the Chinese government for its response to the Corona virus and presumed that authoritarian states could never be as good as democratic states in responding to a pandemic. I want to revisit my opinion.
Open mike 11/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 11th, 2020 - 129 comments
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Corrupt US
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Date published: 8:21 pm, March 10th, 2020 - 60 comments
That’s not a request by the way. This post is a kind of “confessions of a cynic who allowed optimism to creep up and have a hand in thought processes” post.
Daily review 10/03/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 10th, 2020 - 64 comments
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My reaction to a new Commissioner of Police
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Date published: 8:24 am, March 10th, 2020 - 15 comments
Previous readers of this site will be aware that I’m not a particularly enthusiastic supporter of the police. I’m more in the order of regarding our current police of a necessary burden on society that could do with having considerable improvement. While I find most police members to be what I can respect. I find the organisation protects some real idiots. I pity a commissioner having to deal with this.
Before the massacre the State was warned
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Date published: 7:43 am, March 10th, 2020 - 27 comments
Through a series of meetings that led all the way to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Head of the State Services Commission Peter Hughes, and the Police, the Islamic Women’s Council repeatedly warned the highest levels of our civil service that their community was under imminent threat. They were ignored.
Open mike 10/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 10th, 2020 - 58 comments
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Daily review 09/03/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 9th, 2020 - 7 comments
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Red tape bonfire of the vanities
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Date published: 2:19 pm, March 9th, 2020 - 19 comments
National has promised a bonfire of regulations. Just like conservatives in Australia, the United Kingdom, America and previous National administrations.
No Right Turn: Parliament and the pandemic
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Date published: 9:54 am, March 9th, 2020 - 23 comments
Idiot/Savant writes about what the government can and can’t do with sitting and the election.
The politics of gun control
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Date published: 7:47 am, March 9th, 2020 - 180 comments
National and NZ First are frustrating the passage of the Arms Legislation Bill by raising issues that may appeal to extremists but will not make the country a safer place after the Christchurch massacre.
Open mike 09/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 9th, 2020 - 69 comments
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Quick Question.
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Date published: 12:39 pm, March 8th, 2020 - 61 comments
Your material life; would you trade it for the world?
Update/edit.
Interesting that the definitive answers all ran in one direction.
How To Get There 08/03/20
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 8th, 2020 - 7 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 08/03/2020
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 8th, 2020 - 62 comments
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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
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Date published: 12:27 pm, March 7th, 2020 - 163 comments
Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act have a few landlords threatening to quit the business.
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