Archive for 2020

Open mike 15/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 15th, 2020 - 63 comments

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Daily review 14/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, January 14th, 2020 - 13 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 …

National politicises police by claiming Government is politicising police

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:41 am, January 14th, 2020 - 19 comments

Simon Bridges has alleged the police of being politicised after a person who holds rather right wing views and libertarian views on gun ownership had a search warrant for illegal firearms executed on his property.

Open mike 14/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 14th, 2020 - 68 comments

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Why UK Labour lost? Part 5: Antisemitism

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:29 am, January 14th, 2020 - 13 comments

Originally posted onNick Kelly’s blog

Why UK Labour lost? Part 4: Ooooh Jeremy Corbyn

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 3:13 am, January 14th, 2020 - 12 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

Daily review 13/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, January 13th, 2020 - 3 comments

Open mike 13/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 13th, 2020 - 37 comments

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Why UK Labour lost? Part 3: Its Brexit innit

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:14 am, January 13th, 2020 - 28 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

Why UK Labour lost? Part 2: UK Labour’s Strange loyalty to First Past the Post.

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:56 am, January 13th, 2020 - 13 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s Blog

Why UK Labour lost? Part 1: historical context

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 10:34 am, January 12th, 2020 - 2 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

How fast can we transition off fossil fuels?

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:57 am, January 12th, 2020 - 148 comments

We’re at the tension point between the fear a fast transition will deprive us vs the fear that not acting fast enough will lead to climate change depriving us. Climate activists fear the latter, incrementalists fear the former.

How To Get There 12/01/20

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 12th, 2020 - 42 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 12/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 12th, 2020 - 43 comments

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Open mike 11/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 11th, 2020 - 59 comments

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Guest Post – What is wrong with the left?

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:24 am, January 10th, 2020 - 168 comments

Guest post from old maaaaate cans about recent Stuff guest columns attacking the left for not civilised enough and wondering if it is because of right wing insecurity.

Royal Move

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, January 10th, 2020 - 28 comments

It’s great to hear Prince Harry and Meghan quitting as senior royals and going off on their own. Maybe others in the Royal Family should think of doing the same.

Open mike 10/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 10th, 2020 - 25 comments

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A message for conservatives about climate change and nuclear power

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:21 pm, January 9th, 2020 - 142 comments

David Farrar has criticised young people not for their passion about addressing climate change, but for not supporting nuclear power as a potential solution. Even though it is too risky, too expensive, and too late.

Open mike 09/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 9th, 2020 - 58 comments

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Iran attacks US bases in Iraq

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:11 pm, January 8th, 2020 - 174 comments

There are reports of two US bases being hit by missiles launched from within Iran and it is being reported that Iran’s air force is in the air.

Simon Bridges went to China

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:21 am, January 8th, 2020 - 44 comments

It has been revealed that Simon Bridges’trip to China last year was organised by National MP and former teacher of English to Chinese spies Jian Yang and that an offer of assistance from MFAT was declined.

Open mike 08/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 8th, 2020 - 140 comments

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Qasem Soleimani murdered by the United States.

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:04 am, January 8th, 2020 - 11 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

Australian fires and the climate crisis everybody wanted to ignore

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:05 am, January 7th, 2020 - 51 comments

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s Blog

LBJ Redux

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:07 am, January 7th, 2020 - 36 comments

What if the American assassination of General Soleimani results in the complete withdrawal of US troops from the Middle East?

Open mike 07/01/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, January 7th, 2020 - 42 comments

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Get out now

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 2:21 pm, January 6th, 2020 - 76 comments

General Soleimani was visiting Iraq at the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister to discuss mediation between the US and Iran. Following his assassination by the US the Iraqi Parliament has voted to ask all foreign troops to leave the country. New Zealand’s remaining troops should bring forward their scheduled departure and leave immediately.