Open Mike 16/07/2018

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Date published: 6:03 am, July 16th, 2018 - 102 comments

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No Mates National

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Date published: 1:10 pm, July 15th, 2018 - 68 comments

Peter Dunne has some sage advice for National; phone a friend. If you can find one.

Free Tommy Robinson *

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Date published: 10:29 am, July 15th, 2018 - 66 comments

* with every purchase.

Open Mike 15/07/2018

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Date published: 6:03 am, July 15th, 2018 - 152 comments

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In Short…

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Date published: 11:53 am, July 14th, 2018 - 49 comments

A post puzzling over our collective state of mind in the face of incredible danger and suggesting the only course of action we can take. Covering our eyes and blocking our ears isn’t it.

Kia Ora Gaza’s Open Letter to Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters

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Date published: 6:45 am, July 14th, 2018 - 42 comments

. . . Mike will join many other prominent human rights advocates from around the world and international media personnel on this peaceful and non-violent civil society mission to challenge Israel’s illegal and inhumane 11-year naval blockade of Gaza . . .

Open Mike 14/07/2018

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Date published: 6:03 am, July 14th, 2018 - 54 comments

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Theresa May’s and England’s bad week

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Date published: 4:01 pm, July 13th, 2018 - 47 comments

In the space of a week England has lost in its goal of winning the world cup, had three senior ministers resign over May’s “soft” BREXIT proposal and now Donald Trump has effectively called for Theresa May to be replaced by Boris Johnson.

Property price decline

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Date published: 8:30 am, July 13th, 2018 - 61 comments

What would happen if the house prices of Auckland, Queenstown, and other centres of very high debt went into substantial and long term decline?

Miners having a whale of a time

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Date published: 6:15 am, July 13th, 2018 - 59 comments

Ironsands Offshore Mining Ltd allowed to drill and extract bulk samples from the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary

Open Mike 13/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 13th, 2018 - 56 comments

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Daily Review 12/07/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 12th, 2018 - 16 comments

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Nurses deserve our support

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Date published: 6:30 am, July 12th, 2018 - 101 comments

Perhaps the Labour-led coalition might choose to reflect on it priorities – the sufficient funding of essential public services or buying billion-dollar war machines from the Donald Trump regime.

Open Mike 12/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 12th, 2018 - 99 comments

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There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech

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Date published: 6:48 pm, July 11th, 2018 - 186 comments

There’s never been Free Speech and that’s not actually much of a problem according to Te Reo Putake, who is no stranger to the downside of Saying Things.

Daily Review 11/07/2018

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Date published: 5:47 pm, July 11th, 2018 - 16 comments

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Free Speech.

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Date published: 11:32 am, July 11th, 2018 - 179 comments

It’s a principle.

The free speech coalition that is actually quite expensive

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Date published: 8:07 am, July 11th, 2018 - 168 comments

The Free Speech coalition, formed to protect freedom of speech for the far right, has amongst its members some whose views on what freedom of speech actually is are unusual.

Unparliamentary Language

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Date published: 8:00 am, July 11th, 2018 - 13 comments

“His brain could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides”

Open Mike 11/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 11th, 2018 - 109 comments

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Daily Review 10/07/2018

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Date published: 5:43 pm, July 10th, 2018 - 31 comments

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Cake makers and fascists

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Date published: 8:19 am, July 10th, 2018 - 412 comments

A Warkworth cake maker has refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.  The situation raises the question should she be allowed to discriminate against others on the grounds that she is exercising her rights of religious belief.

Nicky Wagner’s “You are a bitch” redacted

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Date published: 6:30 am, July 10th, 2018 - 63 comments

Labour MP Dr. Deborah Russell is to take a closer look at why an insult hurled against her in Parliament by National Ltd™ List MP Nicky Wagner has been redacted from Hansard.

Open Mike 10/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 10th, 2018 - 75 comments

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Daily Review 09/07/2018

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Date published: 5:34 pm, July 9th, 2018 - 30 comments

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Topped

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Date published: 4:31 pm, July 9th, 2018 - 36 comments

The Board of The Opportunities Party (TOP) has decided to request that the Electoral Commission cancel TOP’s registration as a political party

The trade war

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Date published: 1:56 pm, July 9th, 2018 - 27 comments

The speed of the growing trade war between the United States and China will hit New Zealand. Our long term diplomatic arc, such that it is, was to follow a modernist impulse set after World War Two: that economic growth and democracy matched deep human impulses for freedom and prosperity together. China has never assented […]

Dotcom loses in the Court of Appeal

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Date published: 11:05 am, July 9th, 2018 - 60 comments

The Court of Appeal has released its decision in the Kim Dotcom extradition case. The case has had a lot of resources thrown at it by both sides and I hope my brief description does the arguments and the judgment justice. The decision can be read here. As befits the resources that have been poured […]

Open Mike 09/07/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, July 9th, 2018 - 193 comments

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Progress.

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Date published: 5:21 pm, July 8th, 2018 - 10 comments

I don’t pay much attention to news channels these days, and realise this will have been all over the place in the shape of headlines and lead stories. So I’m sorry for simply echoing that which is already being amplified, but hey…

The extent of the right to free speech

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Date published: 10:02 am, July 8th, 2018 - 354 comments

Lauren Southern’s cancelled lecture has caused some debate about what freedom of speech is, is it absolute, and if not where is the line to be drawn?

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