The unexpected oil crisis

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Date published: 9:30 am, January 16th, 2016 - 186 comments

The world is currently facing a problem that even a few years ago was unthinkable.  Oil is cheap and demand has dropped out of the market.  What are the geopolitical implications of this?

Open mike 16/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2016 - 76 comments

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NZ first in the world!

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Date published: 2:23 pm, January 15th, 2016 - 46 comments

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Gender Pay Gap: Average Wage Graph telling

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Date published: 10:38 am, January 15th, 2016 - 76 comments

Now maybe it’s because I’m a bloke, but looking at this graph I couldn’t help but think: wouldn’t it be better to close the pay gap for women by increasing their wages rather than decreasing men’s?

How to improve pay gender equality

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Date published: 8:49 am, January 15th, 2016 - 17 comments

It’s been a hardy annual finding of late – the pay gap between males and females is getting steadily worse. History suggests that Labour governments have some answers…

Really David Farrar?

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Date published: 7:30 am, January 15th, 2016 - 29 comments

David Farrar has criticised AUSA for refusing to publicly endorse a Pro Life Auckland offer of assistance to solo mother students and thereby stopping assistance occurring.  There is one problem though, AUSA did nothing of the sort.

Open mike 15/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2016 - 74 comments

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Go Bernie!

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Date published: 9:55 am, January 14th, 2016 - 91 comments

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New Zealand’s alternative 1984

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Date published: 9:00 am, January 14th, 2016 - 76 comments

What would have happened if in 1984 David Lange had exerted control and appointed a centrist rather than right wing Labour cabinet?

TPP circus rolls on

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Date published: 7:01 am, January 14th, 2016 - 203 comments

The new year begins much as the old one ended, with secrets, evasions and dissent over the TPP and what it means for NZ.

Open mike 14/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2016 - 303 comments

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Boots Theory: Move left to win? Move left to win!

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Date published: 11:46 am, January 13th, 2016 - 77 comments

Boots Theory on the American Working Families Charter, how they are trying to move the Democratic Party to the left, and possible lessons for New Zealand.

Royal Bank of Scotland to investors: “Sell everything”

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Date published: 10:48 am, January 13th, 2016 - 154 comments

The Bank of Scotland has advised advised its clients to brace for a “cataclysmic year” and a global deflationary crisis.

Open mike 13/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2016 - 202 comments

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Date published: 5:56 pm, January 12th, 2016 - 15 comments

Te Reo Putake spins the black circle and has a listen to Bowie’s final album, Blackstar.

National’s vision for New Zealand’s future

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Date published: 11:28 am, January 12th, 2016 - 94 comments

Stephen Joyce has had published an opinion piece in this morning’s Herald which extolls the virtue of free trade and ignores the pitfalls.  Such as those shown this week when TransCanada sued the US Government for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline contract.

Open mike 12/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2016 - 189 comments

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Ground Control to Major Tom

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Date published: 8:13 pm, January 11th, 2016 - 59 comments

David Bowie’s death has been announced.

Open mike 11/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2016 - 130 comments

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Why are we working so hard?

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Date published: 11:42 am, January 10th, 2016 - 46 comments

A recent New Matilda article discusses why at a time of increasing productivity the need to work has increased and not decreased.

Open mike 10/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 10th, 2016 - 91 comments

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The problem with free market capitalism

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Date published: 11:16 am, January 9th, 2016 - 249 comments

This morning’s Herald contains a story about a young man who with a family gift has managed to purchase eleven houses over the past five years and can afford to pay World of Warcraft all day.

Open mike 09/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 9th, 2016 - 57 comments

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Life and Death and Cannabis

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Date published: 6:08 pm, January 8th, 2016 - 129 comments

I am taking Cannabis Oil to manage my pain as my lung cancer takes over my body. It’s sort of as simple as that really. For some people talking about dying is confronting but actually talking about it allows us to think about how it happens – it is actually as much a social event as a physical one and knowing someone is comfortable, getting good treatment and pain relief is very much part of the social dimension as the physical one.

Little: Labour to Defy TPPA

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Date published: 8:58 am, January 8th, 2016 - 717 comments

Labour Leader Andrew Little has announced that the next Labour led Government will defy the TPPA’s attack on our sovereignty. Good on Labour – that’s the leadership we need.

Well this is awkward

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Date published: 7:30 am, January 8th, 2016 - 81 comments

Jamie Whyte yesterday wrote an article for the Herald claiming that child poverty does not exist in New Zealand. But he wrote essentially the same article in 2005 about child poverty in Great Britain.

Open mike 08/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 8th, 2016 - 108 comments

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TPPA to be signed in New Zealand but the Government is not confirming

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Date published: 6:18 pm, January 7th, 2016 - 24 comments

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement will be signed in New Zealand on February 4, 2016.  But the Government is not confirming …

Film review: The New Star Wars movie

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Date published: 10:42 am, January 7th, 2016 - 103 comments

And now for something completely different for the Standard, a film review.

Open mike 07/01/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 7th, 2016 - 150 comments

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Saudi Arabia and the free trade deal

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Date published: 10:47 am, January 6th, 2016 - 113 comments

David Shearer has disagreed with the Greens that New Zealand should suspend negotiations on the free trade agreement with Saudi Arabia until it improves its human rights record.

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