On the death of Joan Didion
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Date published: 6:58 am, December 29th, 2021 - 5 comments
We need to remember Joan Didion, who died December 23rd, as perhaps the best defensive pessimist we’ve ever had. She nailed the feet of her times down to the floor to make sure it talked and wept all its pain out. It’s not enough to call Joan Didion just a pessimist, because she wrote hard […]
Open mike 29/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 29th, 2021 - 116 comments
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Daily review 28/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 28th, 2021 - 5 comments
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What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners …
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Date published: 10:00 am, December 28th, 2021 - 2 comments
What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners turns into a homily from Beau on the power of getting community change going when and only when you have the organisational power to pull it off month after month after month.
The Standard’s 2021 political awards
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Date published: 7:34 am, December 28th, 2021 - 68 comments
It is that time of year where nostalgia kicks in and the desire to review current events dims. So much has happened this year. It has truly been twelve months of the praiseworthy and the absolutely pitiful. And it is time to reflect on the personalities who made us smile, made us frown and made us raise our eyebrows to breaking point.
Open mike 28/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 28th, 2021 - 84 comments
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Daily review 27/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 27th, 2021 - 21 comments
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Open mike 27/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 27th, 2021 - 116 comments
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Open mike 26/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 26th, 2021 - 22 comments
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie
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Date published: 8:09 am, December 25th, 2021 - 33 comments
Here at the Standard we choose to debate the important issues of the day. What needs to be done about climate change, how the Country’s covid response is going (remarkably well and don’t believe the naysayers), and which National faction is leaking and undermining which leader. But there is one debate that is currently raging that has until now not been addressed …
Open mike 25/12/2021
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Date published: 6:01 am, December 25th, 2021 - 33 comments
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Daily review 24/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 8 comments
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The pandemic is resiliency training
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Date published: 12:17 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 12 comments
Fear and loathing on both sides of the fence, or adaptation and resiliency? We do have some choices.
Open mike 24/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 24th, 2021 - 68 comments
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Daily review 23/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 23rd, 2021 - 34 comments
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Our Energy Upheaval
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Date published: 7:39 am, December 23rd, 2021 - 79 comments
Ministers Wood, Shaw and Parker (Energy, Climate Change, and RMA reform respectively), must pull their eyes downward from the misty clouds of climate change and stuff multiple decades away and down into the jagged, shadowy deal-by-deal path of the transition to clean energy.
Open mike 23/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 23rd, 2021 - 259 comments
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Daily review 22/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 22nd, 2021 - 10 comments
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Revisiting Riverton: the Longwood Loop food resiliency project
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Date published: 6:15 am, December 22nd, 2021 - 22 comments
Key here is the resilience politics of greenies, DIYers and anarchists, where we just don’t wait for the government to act, we get on with and build the new ways ourselves.
Open mike 22/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 22nd, 2021 - 97 comments
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Daily review 21/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 21st, 2021 - 47 comments
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Can Labor Win Australia Back?
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Date published: 1:07 pm, December 21st, 2021 - 37 comments
Coming up surprising quickly in 2022 is the Australian federal election – and Labor has a good shot.
Open mike 21/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 21st, 2021 - 248 comments
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Daily review 20/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 20th, 2021 - 45 comments
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Long covid, omicron and the precautionary principle
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Date published: 1:12 pm, December 20th, 2021 - 95 comments
There are still so many things we don’t know about long covid and omicron presents a whole new set of challenges.
Open mike 20/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 20th, 2021 - 111 comments
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Bad Covid takes
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Date published: 3:11 pm, December 19th, 2021 - 130 comments
There seems to be a correlation between commentators who have both Herald and Newstalk ZB exposure and how really bad their Covid takes are.
Open mike 19/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 19th, 2021 - 327 comments
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No One Cares
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Date published: 7:59 am, December 18th, 2021 - 71 comments
I had reason to visit Waitara in Taranaki recently, and I don’t want to sound like there’s a different world still operating … … but the fish and chip shop people weren’t wearing masks, I passed three guys burning the street with dirt-bikes and no helmets and famously lank and long hair, random fireworks lit up […]
Open mike 18/12/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 18th, 2021 - 126 comments
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Daily review 17/12/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 17th, 2021 - 60 comments
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