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Daily Review 10/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:43 pm, July 10th, 2018 - 31 comments

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Cake makers and fascists

Written By: mickysavage
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

Written By: BLiP
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

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 10th, 2018 - 75 comments

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Daily Review 09/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:34 pm, July 9th, 2018 - 30 comments

Topped

Written By: notices and features
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

Written By: advantage
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

Written By: mickysavage
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

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 9th, 2018 - 193 comments

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Progress.

Written By: Bill
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

Written By: mickysavage
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?

Open Mike 08/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 8th, 2018 - 51 comments

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Smile!

Written By: Bill
Date published: 4:45 pm, July 7th, 2018 - 98 comments

The extent and limits of current politics.

Open Mike 07/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 7th, 2018 - 55 comments

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Daily Review 06/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 6th, 2018 - 7 comments

Novichok II

Written By: Bill
Date published: 12:39 pm, July 6th, 2018 - 48 comments

And then there was five.

Far right Canadian activist wants to come to New Zealand to insult local communities

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 12:08 pm, July 6th, 2018 - 292 comments

Far right journalist Lauren Southern wants to come to New Zealand to give a speech which will no doubt insult various communities. Should we let her in?

Russell McVeagh

Written By: advantage
Date published: 8:11 am, July 6th, 2018 - 31 comments

Dame Margaret Beazley has concluded in her report into Russell McVeagh, New Zealand’s Goldman Sachs, that it has serious problems including instances of excessive drinking and in some instances crude, drunken, and sexually inappropriate behaviour, a failure of governance and pockets of bullying.

Open Mike 06/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 6th, 2018 - 89 comments

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Daily Review 05/07/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 5th, 2018 - 27 comments

Apparently Labour was to blame for the global financial crisis

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 9:00 am, July 5th, 2018 - 65 comments

These sorts of debates do my head in. Essentially because they are so removed from reality that anyone with any sense would know that Labour was not responsible for the last global financial crisis. But apparently the opposition spokesperson does not understand what happened in 2008. Does this seem a bit harsh? Well it is […]