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Bernie Sanders on…
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, October 19th, 2016 - 16 comments
Excerpts from a lengthy Bernie Sanders interview published in the ‘New Republic’.
Nothing’s Going to Happen.
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, October 11th, 2016 - 104 comments
A wee reflection on our psychological fuck-edness.
The Propaganda War
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, October 2nd, 2016 - 89 comments
Under the rubble of lies…
When the levee breaks…
Written By: - Date published: 1:07 pm, September 20th, 2016 - 99 comments
Bar the ear-worm, nothing to do with Led Zeppelin.
Labour Organising
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, September 14th, 2016 - 39 comments
From the UK. Organising 101.
Race, Class, Global Warming and Democracy.
Written By: - Date published: 1:06 pm, September 7th, 2016 - 18 comments
Nothing and no-one is separate in this world. Nothing and no-one is more important than anything else or anyone else; no voice greater and no voice lesser.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, September 3rd, 2016 - 8 comments
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Disturbing.
Written By: - Date published: 11:12 am, September 2nd, 2016 - 14 comments
Given the topic of this post, it seems appropriate not to attach an image.
World Water Week
Written By: - Date published: 11:18 am, September 1st, 2016 - 11 comments
Never heard of it? Neither had I.
Free Petrol Pt IV
Written By: - Date published: 6:25 am, August 5th, 2016 - 92 comments
Part IV of IV
Free Petrol Pt III
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, August 4th, 2016 - 25 comments
Part III of IV – a focus on road transport.
Free Petrol Pt II
Written By: - Date published: 6:38 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 11 comments
Part II of IV. How to achieve zero carbon from the shipping and aviation sectors by the 2030s.
Free Petrol Pt I
Written By: - Date published: 1:42 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 3 comments
Part I of a IV part series of posts on what we can do to hold global warming below 2 degrees C.
Eagle vs Window Pane
Written By: - Date published: 5:14 pm, July 10th, 2016 - 81 comments
So Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been openly challenged.
The Chrematistic Camel
Written By: - Date published: 7:26 pm, July 4th, 2016 - 110 comments
So this post is about a suite of frameworks not to adopt if the goal is to avoid 2 degrees of global warming.
Chilcot, Corbyn and the UK Labour Party caucus.
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, June 29th, 2016 - 62 comments
Three dots.
Updated
It’s a Side-show, “Bob”.
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, June 28th, 2016 - 279 comments
From the circus that never leaves town.
Good News!
Written By: - Date published: 10:41 am, June 5th, 2016 - 158 comments
May figures just out…
Next Floor
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, June 4th, 2016 - 5 comments
A short film by Denis Villeneuve…
The Mother Budget
Written By: - Date published: 6:21 pm, May 26th, 2016 - 89 comments
There are budgets and there are budgets. And for all the presence or absence of bright ideas, there’s a budget that threatens to subsume all others…
Portugal
Written By: - Date published: 12:28 pm, May 19th, 2016 - 114 comments
There are bits of good news out there, but there’s a lot of denial around the mess we’re in.
Nice weather down here…
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, May 16th, 2016 - 183 comments
… and a freight train coming down the tracks.
What Possibility a Mid Winter Celebration?
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, May 15th, 2016 - 8 comments
According to the Herald on Sunday, some people aren’t just sitting back waiting for the Chilcot report to be released before deciding what to do. Some people are getting geared up.
Welsh Assembly.
Written By: - Date published: 11:12 am, May 12th, 2016 - 20 comments
A post to illustrate how fixed term parliaments work…off the back of some really woeful reportage.
Maybe stop dropping it…
Written By: - Date published: 11:28 am, May 2nd, 2016 - 151 comments
…the hot potato – stop dropping it. Maybe grow the fuck up and react intelligently to the blindingly obvious.
In the Home of Labour
Written By: - Date published: 5:59 pm, April 25th, 2016 - 48 comments
Still out of touch and running out of time.
Off-shore Trusts (a simple solution)
Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, April 12th, 2016 - 42 comments
I know this won’t happen, but still…
Simplicity
Written By: - Date published: 11:57 am, April 9th, 2016 - 62 comments
Good shit happening in France.
Goodbye.
Written By: - Date published: 1:20 pm, April 1st, 2016 - 103 comments
South Dunedin, Lower Hutt, Christchurch, Napier…
House Tales.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, March 22nd, 2016 - 32 comments
If ‘home is where the heart is’ then what’s the story when everything’s heartless?
Glasses and Brick Walls (& woods and trees).
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 pm, March 21st, 2016 - 47 comments
The thing about not having great sight is that sometimes you don’t really see things coming.
- Govt Announces No Christmas For Children In Persistent Poverty For The Next 10 Years
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The number of young people kept overnight in police cells was 418 in the year ended June. ...1 week ago
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Two decades after its creation, is the Supreme Court hearing the right cases and meeting its statutory objectives? ...1 week ago
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- Letter From Winners Of The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize
We write to voice our disagreement with the decision to alter the Terms of Reference of the Marsden Fund such that "approximately 50 percent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic benefits to New Zealand". We urge the Government ...1 week ago
- What is it about Holloway Road? The ghosts of Wellington’s most atmospheric street
Claire Mabey explores the past and present of Holloway Road, one of Wellington’s most mysterious and storied communities. All photos by Claire Mabey. A pair of long-eared goats graze high on the verdant hillside. There’s a near-constant shriek of kākā flying overhead, passing over like fantastical creatures. The Lilliput library ...1 week ago
- NZ police officers’ China trip had all the hallmarks of foreign influence operation – ex...
The SIS has IDed China as the major source of foreign interference activities - and the police should take heed, Anne-Marie Brady says. ...1 week ago
- What’s left on the parliament agenda for 2024?
Get ready for the pre-Christmas push, writes The Bulletin’s Stewart Sowman-Lund. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...1 week ago
- Auckland foodbanks face closure, reducing services as funding to stop
"I'm worried. I know hundreds of thousands of Aucklanders rely on the mission for food," City Missioner Helen Robinson says. ...1 week ago
- Family violence funding review could see services lose out – critics
Labour and the Greens are concerned the government is "pulling away" from existing services, but minister says that's not the case. ...1 week ago
- Conservation staffer fired after tampering with jobs system
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NZ is in a "global market" for international students, Te Pūkenga boss says, and those facing delays will often opt to go to other countries. ...1 week ago
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- Carbon credits, fish poo and the push to discover the secrets of the sea floor
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- Somewhere along the line someone always pays
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- Daily crossword, Monday 16 December
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The number of people in tertiary study receiving the student allowance has dropped almost 40 percent since 2013 amid a freeze on eligibility income thresholds and falling enrolments. The allowance is available if your parents earn under a certain threshold or you’re at least 24 and have an eligible income. It ...1 week ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 16 December
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- NZ swims against Pacific currents at global climate case
NZ’s arguments before the ‘World’s Court’ look progressive but ultimately align with polluters and developed nations, a law lecturer says The post NZ swims against Pacific currents at global climate case appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
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- New Zealand Far-Right Government’s Anti-Democratic “Law And Order” Agenda
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- An Ode to .. Nicola Willis
The Horror! The Horror!“Now Captain,” says Admiraless Willis,Striding onto the bridgeOf the antique ferry Roi des BelgesAs it winds up the endless brown riverThrough a steaming jungle.“I expect you to follow my commandsTo the letter. Do you understand?”The Captain is silentAs he steers between treacherous sandbars.“We’ve entrusted you with this ...1 week ago
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- Ōtaki highway tolls to reach vital services unfair – mayor
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- This year’s sports superstars and triumphs – and who’ll be big in 2025
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CHRIS HIPKINSIt was Christmas Eve, babeIn the Beehive bar.An old man said to me,“What’s your name, son?”And then he sank his glassOf cold clear Mountain Dew.I looked him in the eyeAnd sank a glass too.Had a quiet yearWithout a single care.I’ve got a feelingNext year’s much the same.So happy Christmas,Old ...2 weeks ago
- Our report to you – Newsroom in 2024
We want to thank you for the support you’ve given us to continue delivering groundbreaking, robust and independent journalism of public importance. That support is through your subscriptions and donations – and critically, it’s also through you sharing and championing our work to friends, family and colleagues. We’re grateful.We owe it to you to ...2 weeks ago
- The Treaty principles bill – bad execution of a good idea?
Comment: To anyone genuinely interested in resolving the role of the Treaty of Waitangi in modern New Zealand, the arrival of the Treaty principles bill must be deeply disappointing.Part circus, part political stunt. Part farce, part tragedy.A ‘phantom’ bill that will never be enacted, Act and Te Pāti Māori politicking ...2 weeks ago
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- I see hundreds of ads for togs so why is it so hard to find a decent pair?
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