Archive for 2020

Bridges’ biggest gamble

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:46 pm, February 2nd, 2020 - 103 comments

Simon Bridges has mimicked John Key and ruled out National working with NZ First after the election. The difference is however that back then Key ruled out working with NZ First because NZ First was involved in a SFO investigation about the hiding of a $100,000 donation. This time it is National.

How To Get There 02/02/20

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 2nd, 2020 - 19 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 02/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 2nd, 2020 - 64 comments

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Pay the money back Simon

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:17 pm, February 1st, 2020 - 33 comments

Simon Bridges has stated that National wants to pay the undeclared $100,000 donation back but even though nearly two years have passed since it was made it still remains unrepaid.

Open mike 01/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 1st, 2020 - 68 comments

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Open mike 31/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 31st, 2020 - 114 comments

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Daily review 30/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, January 30th, 2020 - 23 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 …

Is National the party of law and order?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:26 am, January 30th, 2020 - 38 comments

Following the announcement by the Serious Fraud Office of charges relating to the donation of $100,000 to the National Party Simon Bridges claim of being exonerated appear to be optimistic.

Open mike 30/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 30th, 2020 - 66 comments

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Daily review 29/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:43 pm, January 29th, 2020 - 7 comments

SFO files charges in relation to National Party donations

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:37 pm, January 29th, 2020 - 55 comments

The SFO has confirmed that it has charged four persons with offences relating to the receipt of donations by the National Party.

The Government’s $12 billion infrastructure package

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:33 am, January 29th, 2020 - 96 comments

The details of the Government’s $12 billion infrastructure announcement have been released.

Trump’s Middle East peace plan

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:47 am, January 29th, 2020 - 21 comments

This news shows how strange International Relations has become. Donald Trump, currently on trial in the Senate for withholding approved funds from the Ukraine in an attempt to get the Ukranian authorities to dig up dirt on his possible opponent Joe Biden, and Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and […]

Open mike 29/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 29th, 2020 - 35 comments

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Daily review 28/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, January 28th, 2020 - 63 comments

19th September: Talk Like a Pirate Day

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:36 pm, January 28th, 2020 - 19 comments

Plus we get to choose our government again.

How low will Bridges go?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:55 am, January 28th, 2020 - 23 comments

Simon Bridges has wondered out loud if anti semitism stopped the Government from sending a senior representative to a Holocaust memorial in Israel.

Open mike 28/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 28th, 2020 - 118 comments

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The Fourth Estate struggling in the social media world

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:51 pm, January 27th, 2020 - 30 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

Ahead of the 2020 General Election in New Zealand, Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that her party is committed to run a factual election and has signed up to a social media tool to help prove it. The 2020 NZ election will be an interesting case study of whether in the social media age there can be honest political debate free of misinformation and manipulation of facts.