Why UK Labour lost? Part 3: Its Brexit innit

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Date published: 6:14 am, January 13th, 2020 - 28 comments

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Why UK Labour lost? Part 2: UK Labour’s Strange loyalty to First Past the Post.

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Date published: 2:56 am, January 13th, 2020 - 13 comments

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Why UK Labour lost? Part 1: historical context

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Date published: 10:34 am, January 12th, 2020 - 2 comments

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How fast can we transition off fossil fuels?

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Date published: 9:57 am, January 12th, 2020 - 148 comments

We’re at the tension point between the fear a fast transition will deprive us vs the fear that not acting fast enough will lead to climate change depriving us. Climate activists fear the latter, incrementalists fear the former.

Open mike 12/01/2020

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How To Get There 12/01/20

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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 11/01/2020

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Guest Post – What is wrong with the left?

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Date published: 8:24 am, January 10th, 2020 - 168 comments

Guest post from old maaaaate cans about recent Stuff guest columns attacking the left for not civilised enough and wondering if it is because of right wing insecurity.

 

Royal Move

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Date published: 8:00 am, January 10th, 2020 - 28 comments

It’s great to hear Prince Harry and Meghan quitting as senior royals and going off on their own.  Maybe others in the Royal Family should think of doing the same.

Open mike 10/01/2020

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A message for conservatives about climate change and nuclear power

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Date published: 3:21 pm, January 9th, 2020 - 142 comments

David Farrar has criticised young people not for their passion about addressing climate change, but for not supporting nuclear power as a potential solution.  Even though it is too risky, too expensive, and too late.

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Iran attacks US bases in Iraq

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Date published: 2:11 pm, January 8th, 2020 - 174 comments

There are reports of two US bases being hit by missiles launched from within Iran and it is being reported that Iran’s air force is in the air.

Simon Bridges went to China

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Date published: 11:21 am, January 8th, 2020 - 44 comments

It has been revealed that Simon Bridges’trip to China last year was organised by National MP and former teacher of English to Chinese spies Jian Yang and that an offer of assistance from MFAT was declined.

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Qasem Soleimani murdered by the United States.

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Date published: 2:04 am, January 8th, 2020 - 11 comments

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Australian fires and the climate crisis everybody wanted to ignore

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Date published: 11:05 am, January 7th, 2020 - 51 comments

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LBJ Redux

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Date published: 9:07 am, January 7th, 2020 - 36 comments

What if the American assassination of General Soleimani results in the complete withdrawal of US troops from the Middle East?

Open mike 07/01/2020

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Get out now

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Date published: 2:21 pm, January 6th, 2020 - 76 comments

General Soleimani was visiting Iraq at the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister to discuss mediation between the US and Iran. Following his assassination by the US the Iraqi Parliament has voted to ask all foreign troops to leave the country. New Zealand’s remaining troops should bring forward their scheduled departure and leave immediately.

 

Australia is no longer the lucky country

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Date published: 9:57 am, January 6th, 2020 - 112 comments

Australia is arguably no longer the lucky country.  And if it does not resolve its addiction to coal it may not have a future.

Open mike 06/01/2020

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How To Get There 05/01/20

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He wasn’t here to help us, was he

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Date published: 7:10 am, January 4th, 2020 - 80 comments

The utter failure of the Australian Prime Minister to lead during the bushfire crisis reminds us that it’s care for our children and communities that drives climate action. When people mobilise politicians will follow.

Open mike 04/01/2020

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Known Knowns and All the Other Ones

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Date published: 12:49 am, January 4th, 2020 - 6 comments

We cannot know everything and our only option is to trust others who know stuff that we don’t.

That 1914 Feeling

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Date published: 10:28 pm, January 3rd, 2020 - 104 comments

President Trump personally ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite military Quds force. He was killed by rockets fired from US drones over Baghdad Airport.  This is unlawful by any standards, as well as an act of war. Iran has promised retaliation.The doomsday clock just moved closer to midnight.

OPCW Scandal.

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Date published: 11:14 am, January 3rd, 2020 - 40 comments

There was no chemical attack in Douma.

New book reveals Le Carré’s bleak view of post-Brexit world 

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Date published: 9:39 am, January 3rd, 2020 - 5 comments

John le Carré’s 26th book, Agent Running in the Field, which, according to the publishers is his take on Brexit, and suggests a dystopian future for European liberal democracies in a post-Brexit world. It follows John le Carré’s overarching theme – with friends like these, who needs enemies?

Open mike 03/01/2020

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