In July 2019 BBC current affairs show Panorama did a report on antisemitism in Labour. Ironically many of the whistleblowers from this Panorama documentary were the people named in this leaked Labour report as having frustrated antisemitism investigations. Were it not for COVID-19, we can be sure the BBC would ensure this was properly reported on to ensure a balanced and factual news service had been provided. Or maybe not?
Archive for 2020
Open mike 09/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 9th, 2020 - 151 comments
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Open mike 08/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 8th, 2020 - 201 comments
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MSM asking questions in a democracy
Written By: - Date published: 11:12 am, May 7th, 2020 - 13 comments
Too much repetition, or the wrong questions?
Transmission Gully PPP
Written By: - Date published: 10:46 am, May 7th, 2020 - 56 comments
I’d agree with what No Right Turn says..
“The entire project looks to be an expensive failure. Rather than transferring risk to the private sector, it turns out to be the usual scam of privatising profits and socialising losses.”
Bridges pulls a stunt
Written By: - Date published: 7:46 am, May 7th, 2020 - 93 comments
Simon Bridges threw two stunts yesterday, firstly threatening to try and summons senior Public Servants to publicise confidential legal advice and then by attacking Dr Ashley Blomfield for not answering emails quickly enough despite the existence of a pandemic which the country appears to be handling pretty well.
Open mike 07/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 7th, 2020 - 110 comments
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The Green Party’s proposal on essential workers’ pay
Written By: - Date published: 12:19 pm, May 6th, 2020 - 45 comments
Low-wage essential workers are getting New Zealand through this crisis and continue to do so. They went to work when the rest of us were told to stay away – and people would be horrified to hear many of them barely earn enough to live on.
Trump’s not so bad: manslaughter edition
Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, May 6th, 2020 - 49 comments
An occasional series
Top ten things we have learned already
Written By: - Date published: 7:49 am, May 6th, 2020 - 53 comments
The top ten things that the Covid pandemic has taught us as a country.
Open mike 06/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 6th, 2020 - 107 comments
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Roger Douglas attacks economic privilege and inequality
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, May 5th, 2020 - 261 comments
Roger Douglas has reverted to his socialist roots by going back on his pro market mantra and criticising the economic privilege and inequality that he helped create.
Open mike 05/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 5th, 2020 - 169 comments
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The Post Covid Blues
Written By: - Date published: 2:01 pm, May 4th, 2020 - 26 comments
No new COVID 19 cases today!
UPDATE: No change to Level 2, decision in a week.
What would President Biden do?
Written By: - Date published: 7:47 am, May 4th, 2020 - 59 comments
With President Trump doing what we all expected, and killing 67,000 people and counting through chronic poor leadership, and utterly ruining the U.S. economy as well, it’s time to look at what policies the alternative candidate has on offer.
Open mike 04/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 4th, 2020 - 96 comments
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A Response to ‘No Exit’.
Written By: - Date published: 1:48 pm, May 3rd, 2020 - 91 comments
In a recent post, Bill hit his straps with – “Either way, wind power won’t save us. Solar power won’t save us. Carbon capture and storage won’t save us. Your God won’t save us. Nothing but ourselves will save us.”
I felt miffed and more than a little grumpy at Bill’s flippant reference to God, and so sent through this long form response. ~ Adam.
Covid-19 and climate change
Written By: - Date published: 10:19 am, May 3rd, 2020 - 55 comments
The International Energy Agency is forecasting that disruptions caused by Covid-19 will reduce CO2 output this year by 8%. To avoid the worst excesses of climate change the world has a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 7.6% for the next decade. How are we going to keep repeating the reductions that we achieved this year for the next decade?
Open mike 03/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 3rd, 2020 - 134 comments
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Covid-19: Important… satire
Written By: - Date published: 3:05 pm, May 2nd, 2020 - 8 comments
The latest status
Discuss…
It is a bit of a problem when this was often more accurate than the statements from many governments.
Rebuild better post COVID
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 2nd, 2020 - 46 comments
A Guest blog from E tū Assistant National Secretary, Annie Newman. “Democracy creates a space for the market, civil society and the government but it doesn’t guarantee a balance between these spheres. That is government’s role. Right now, there is an opportunity for our government to do more than protect the future of business; it can address the imbalance in our democracy where the market dominates the agenda.”
Open mike 02/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 2nd, 2020 - 102 comments
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UMR’s bombshell poll result
Written By: - Date published: 11:41 am, May 1st, 2020 - 142 comments
A leaked UMR poll result puts National on 29%.
His work here is not yet done
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 1st, 2020 - 71 comments
Former Prime Minister John Key has said that under current conditions employers are going to sack 20 per cent of their workers even if the company is doing well and that employers should never waste a crisis.
Open mike 01/05/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 1st, 2020 - 126 comments
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No Exit.
Written By: - Date published: 5:25 pm, April 30th, 2020 - 22 comments
Reaction to Covid 19 has done more in a few weeks to blunt the drive behind climate change than anything the environmental movement has managed to do in over thirty years.
UFOs are real
Written By: - Date published: 3:44 pm, April 30th, 2020 - 24 comments
The Pentagon has confirmed the existence of videos which pretty well prove the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects and released the videos.
Open mike 30/04/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 30th, 2020 - 170 comments
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How to kill the car
Written By: - Date published: 7:17 am, April 29th, 2020 - 45 comments
What would you do so that instead of wandering endlessly through tilt-slab monstrosities soaked in 80s music and fluorescent lighting, surrounded by oppressed minimum-wage slaves who hate being there and you hating being there worried about your wheeled asset damaged in their carpark instead you get freedom?
Open mike 29/04/2020
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 29th, 2020 - 136 comments
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Covid =/= Rogernomics
Written By: - Date published: 12:47 pm, April 28th, 2020 - 45 comments
Using neoliberal ideas to try and remedy a situation where neoliberalism is very sick indeed is kind of like pouring salt on the wound. Fortunately we have new, emerging models of how run society that can also serve us well in a covid and climate world.
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