Archive for 2020

Will DPF condemn National for hiding the identity of its donors?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:35 am, February 11th, 2020 - 59 comments

David Farrar has called for the suspension of Winston Peters from Cabinet for reasons which would also justify the suspension of Simon Bridges from the National Party.

Open mike 11/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 11th, 2020 - 109 comments

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Daily review 10/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:51 pm, February 10th, 2020 - 95 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 …

This result could lead to the break up of the United Kingdom

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 8:11 am, February 10th, 2020 - 13 comments

Originally posted onNick Kelly’s blog

Nick is a Director of Piko Consulting and works as a Political Adviser in The House of Lords.

Listening to the results being reported while driving on that California freeway, I recall thinking ‘this result could lead to the break up of the United Kingdom’. On hearing that both Northern Ireland and Scotland had voted to stay part of the EU, in contrast to the rest of the country, it was hard to imagine that this would not become a significant issue.

Open mike 10/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 10th, 2020 - 92 comments

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The end of petrol driven cars

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:57 pm, February 9th, 2020 - 36 comments

Boris Johnson’s UK Government has announced that by 2035 there will be no more petrol or diesel cars entering the UK fleet. Is it time for the New Zealand government to announce the same thing?

How To Get There 09/02/20

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 9th, 2020 - 39 comments

Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.

Open mike 09/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 9th, 2020 - 107 comments

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Oh Look! (What. a. surprise.)

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:41 am, February 8th, 2020 - 20 comments

Mainstream media yet again aiding and abetting the character assassination of whistle blowers.

Will Bernie Sanders unseat Donald Trump?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:30 am, February 8th, 2020 - 52 comments

It will take a full renewal of democracy in the United States. So how does Bernie beat Trump?

The big State Media Merger?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, February 8th, 2020 - 27 comments

Looks like there’s a ways to go before New Zealand gets an integrated state-backed broadcaster. But the Government’s recent proposal is a big step in the right direction.

Open mike 08/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 8th, 2020 - 63 comments

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Daily review 07/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 7th, 2020 - 22 comments

Brian Tamaki, recent victim of self/God?-inflicted burns. Don't be like Brian.

Bernie by 6K.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 4:54 pm, February 7th, 2020 - 35 comments

Iowa and beyond.

No mates Simon

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:48 am, February 7th, 2020 - 86 comments

The repercussions from Simon Bridges’ disastrous Waitangi performance continue to reverberate. His suggestions that Māori seats and the Waitangi Tribunal should be done away with have resulted in the Māori Party indicating it is more likely to support Labour after the election.

Trump survives

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:18 am, February 7th, 2020 - 35 comments

Donald Trump has predictably been acquitted by the US Senate on the impeachment charges laid against him by the House of Representatives.

What if plant-based wasn’t the answer?

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:05 am, February 7th, 2020 - 123 comments

Instead of burning the world a bit more slowly, how about we don’t burn it at all?

Open mike 07/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 7th, 2020 - 44 comments

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Southland floods and toxic waste

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:05 am, February 6th, 2020 - 45 comments

As Southland starts post-flood recovery, the question arises of why 10,000 tonnes of waste known to become toxic on exposure to water was allowed to be stored on the banks of a river with known flood risk in a building with known flood risk?

Open mike 06/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 6th, 2020 - 126 comments

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Daily review 05/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 5th, 2020 - 14 comments

A Handy Clusterfuck?

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:36 am, February 5th, 2020 - 46 comments

A party that detests one of its Presidential nominees. A media establishment that’s largely a propaganda arm of that party. And games…stupid games.

The MPs go to Waitangi

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:04 am, February 5th, 2020 - 93 comments

Yesterday the political parties were welcomed onto the upper Marae at Waitangi. Jacinda Ardern took the occasion to give a stock take of what the Government was doing to address Iwi concerns, Andrew Little gave his speech totally in te reo, and Simon Bridges chose to use the opportunity to politic.