Labour excels in the UK
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Date published: 4:04 pm, June 9th, 2017 - 132 comments
Labour’s performance in the United Kingdom is phenomenal compared to expectations from even three weeks ago. What are the lessons for New Zealand Labour?
UN calls for investigation into Operation Burnham
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Date published: 1:59 pm, June 9th, 2017 - 23 comments
Well well. What will you do now Bill?
Tertiary education: keep it public
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Date published: 12:01 pm, June 9th, 2017 - 24 comments
Two public meetings are being held next week to shine a light on the government’s Education (Tertiary Education and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. It would allow the Minister for Tertiary Education – currently Epsom’s Paul Goldsmith – to take public funds away from universities, polytechs and wānanga and give them to private companies. It’s another […]
$2.3b Health funding shortfall
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Date published: 7:06 am, June 9th, 2017 - 45 comments
The Nats are under-funding the health sector to the tune of $2.3b. That’s a lot of real people not getting the care that they need.
UK General Election discussion post
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Date published: 6:14 am, June 9th, 2017 - 173 comments
General discussion thread for the UK election.
Open Mike 09/06/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 9th, 2017 - 38 comments
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We’ll see.
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Date published: 11:26 pm, June 8th, 2017 - 12 comments
There’s the heel of a boot, and then there’s the lifting of it.
Daily Review 08/06/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 8th, 2017 - 15 comments
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Dirty Politics 2017 style
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Date published: 4:05 pm, June 8th, 2017 - 27 comments
Latest polls and some anecdotal evidence from the doorstep are showing a move back to the Tories in Britain. If so it may in part be due to last-minute dark and dirty personally targeted Facebook advertising to voters in marginal seats. They cost so will need to be watched later on here.
Two faced English warned of the housing crisis in 2010
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Date published: 10:35 am, June 8th, 2017 - 23 comments
PM Bill English denies there is a housing crisis.
In 2010 he knew about and warned of the housing crisis.
Corbyn has already won so this is a good election for UK Labour to lose
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Date published: 7:31 am, June 8th, 2017 - 114 comments
If the campaign was a month longer I have no doubt that Labour would win outright. As it is they will I think they will probably lose, and this will be a good thing for UK Labour long term.
Slum rentals in the brighter future
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Date published: 7:01 am, June 8th, 2017 - 24 comments
The Sunday Star Times had some gut wrenching coverage of the conditions in some of Auckland’s slum boarding houses. How can anyone vote for three more years of this?
Pre-UK election discussion
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Date published: 6:05 am, June 8th, 2017 - 79 comments
“It’s election week, I f*cking love it…” – Jonathan Pie.
Open Mike 08/06/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 8th, 2017 - 52 comments
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Daily Review 07/06/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 7th, 2017 - 72 comments
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Kiwis send a message to Tillerson
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Date published: 10:19 am, June 7th, 2017 - 27 comments
As Patrick Gower puts it, “English tries to hide from the reality of Trump’s America”. Fortunately ordinary Kiwis were not so supine.
Is Donald Trump helping Jeremy Corbyn get elected?
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Date published: 7:56 am, June 7th, 2017 - 17 comments
Donald Trump’s closeness to Theresa May and his boorish behaviour over London’s recent attack may be helping Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt to win this week’s general election.
Trying to wedge the Greens
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Date published: 7:02 am, June 7th, 2017 - 120 comments
The political right try it on every election year, in an attempt to sow a bit of discord. I expect this sort of obvious and clumsy wedge politics from Hooton and the like, but I was a bit surprised to see Duncan Garner having a go.
Open Mike 07/06/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 7th, 2017 - 111 comments
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Daily Review 06/06/2017
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Date published: 5:38 pm, June 6th, 2017 - 26 comments
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The Intercept has published leaked NSA report on Russian hacking of US election
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Date published: 10:10 am, June 6th, 2017 - 28 comments
From The Intercept: “Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.”
Best tweet on “honours”
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Date published: 9:40 am, June 6th, 2017 - 21 comments
Helen Clark is as succinct as ever.
Offline this morning for a short time
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Date published: 8:55 am, June 6th, 2017 - 9 comments
Updated: The server will be shifted when its network link gets shunted to a new location. That will happen sometime Wednesday. So the site will be offline when it does as I have to physically pick up the server and reconnect at the new location.
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The 50th anniversary of the Six Day War
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Date published: 8:44 am, June 6th, 2017 - 55 comments
This week marks the anniversary of the Middle East six day war. How have things developed and what can be done to achieve lasting peace?
Catherine Delahunty: My Mataura River visit
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Date published: 7:30 am, June 6th, 2017 - 8 comments
Green Party Spokesperson for Water, Catherine Delahunty, has been down South as part of the Greens’ Swimmable Rivers Tour. She reports on restoration of the Mataura River, farmers doing the right thing, and the community being further ahead than the government on water.
Breaking news consumer’s handbook
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Date published: 7:10 am, June 6th, 2017 - 3 comments
When the news comes hard, let’s stop and think about what we are doing.
Open Mike 06/06/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 6th, 2017 - 115 comments
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Hager Hit & Run and NZ’s Asian wars
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Date published: 8:23 pm, June 5th, 2017 - 13 comments
Nicky Hager will talk about his book Hit and Run, and the issues it raises about New Zealand’s values and role in the world at 5:30pm on Wednesday 7th June at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, Wellington. The book is about important events and the incoherence of New Zealand fighting it’s longest ever war in Central Asia. This talk is particularly timely in view of this week’s visit of the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
UK election goes down to the wire
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Date published: 11:00 am, June 5th, 2017 - 58 comments
In the United Kingdom the polls continue to narrow and Jeremy Corbyn continues to perform outstandingly well. Is the upset of all upsets possible?
Arise Sir John
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Date published: 7:24 am, June 5th, 2017 - 261 comments
John Key has been awarded a knighthood. Want to know why?
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